The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (also known as “Southwestern”) is one of the leading medical research facilities in the United States. Originally named as “Southwestern Medical College”, it was established in 1943 as a wartime medical school and is part of the University of Texas System. Four Nobel laureates are tenured at Southwestern [1]  (http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/home/about/nobel/index.html). The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ... The Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell) are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. ...

It has a medical school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, and an allied health sciences school. Medical school generally refers to a tertiary educational institution (or part of such an institution) which is involved in the education of future medical practitioners (medical doctors). ... A graduate school is the school that a college student may attend after completion of his or her undergraduate education in order to obtain a degree higher than a Bachelors degree. ...

Southwestern runs a prestigious MD-PHD program, funded partly by Federal MSTP (Medical Scientist Training Program) funds and partly by large grants from private donors, including oil billionaire H. Ross Perot, who regularly makes personal appearances during MSTP recruitment events.

Research at Southwestern is organized hierarchically, moreso than most other academic research institutions. Department chairs' laboratories often contain the entire departments they are in charge of, and these chairs make tenure decisions and disburse departmental funds themselves. This is in contrast to most other American universities, where faculty committees and/or the deans or regents vote on such matters, and departments are composed of smaller, independent research groups. Research at Southwestern is also supported in large part by private donations.

Affiliated hospitals and clinics are: A hospital today is an institution for professional health care provided by physicians and nurses. ...

• Zale Lipshy University Hospital
• St Paul University Hospital
• Parkland Memorial Hospital
• Children’s Medical Center Dallas
• Aston Ambulatory Care Center

Parkland Memorial Hospital is a hospital located at 5201 Harry Hines Boulevard in Dallas, Texas. ...

External links

• UTSWMED (Southwestern) website (http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/)
• UT System website (http://www.utsystem.edu/news/CampusDescriptions/UTSW.htm)