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Inside This Issue
April Edition 2022
‘Match Day’ Heralds Arrival of 169 New Physicians to Austin
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St. David’s Healthcare Investing Nearly $1 Billion in Central Texas Healthcare See pg. 10
INDEX Legal Matters....................... pg.3 Oncology Research......... pg.4 Mental Health...................... pg.6 Age Well, Live Well.......... pg.12
hysicians from across the country will come to Austin to continue their medical training following today’s “match,” an annual rite of passage for graduating medical students and doctors pursuing highly specialized training. A record 169 incoming residents and fellows matched to Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin this year. In all, Dell Med will be home to 400 physicians-in-training starting this summer — up by 83% since 2012. Last year, residents and fellows provided more than 700,000 hours of care at 75-plus clinics and hospitals across Central Texas. Most matches were revealed Graduating medical students hold signs announcing their matches. On Match Day, students across the country open this morning, when graduating envelopes revealing where they will spend the next stage of their medical careers. medical students across the country opened envelopes revealing where they news to the students graduating with in Texas for residency. A quarter of would spend the next stage of their medical degrees from Dell Med. All graduates will remain in Austin, where medical careers. who plan to pursue residency matched, they will continue to learn from Dell The number of graduate Med faculty as part of medical education programs at residency programs Dell Med has nearly doubled in jointly led with the the last year, with 21 new training school’s academic programs added in 2021. “It’s medical partner, extraordinary to have attracted Ascension Seton. residents and fellows to nearly “The students all the available positions in our who will stay in programs, and we’re excited to Austin to practice as welcome these new doctors to resident physicians Central Texas,” said Jonathan — along with MacClements, M.D., associate dean of combining with the graduate medical the new residents and fellows from graduate medical education. education program placements to result out-of-state schools who we’re attracting Where Dell Med’s Grads Are Headed in a near-perfect match for the school. — are a direct result of the investment Match Day brought equally good Hours before the reveal, North the community made when it voted Carolina native Helen Schafer was to create Dell Med in 2012,” said C. contemplative, calling Dell Med “a Martin Harris, M.D., MBA, interim special place.” vice president for medical affairs at UT. “I will never forget watching Dell “Even as residents, these Med get built, thinking about how I physicians’ contributions are critical to wanted to go to medical school and health care systems,” said President and that this was the place that would help CEO of Ascension Texas Andy Davis, me accomplish my dreams,” she said. citing their importance to Ascension’s Schafer earned both M.D. and Master mission to transform health care of Public Health degrees during her delivery and praising the relationship four years as a student. see Match Day...page 14 Among the 46 Dell Med students who entered the match, 47% will stay
Graduating Dell Med students matched to residencies across 18 states; nearly half will stay in Texas, with 1 in 4 remaining in Austin...
UT Health Austin, Ascension Seton Perform First Collaborative Kidney Transplant at Dell Seton See pg. 11
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