Company Profile
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center - Amarillo
Company Overview
Since 1969, we have graduated more than 2,700 physicians. Our original charter was to place more physicians in West Texas, an area of the state where many counties had none. Today, we are proud that more than 20 percent of the practicing physicians in West Texas graduated from our medical school and/or residency programs.
Our departments conduct research and foster scientific discovery that translate into better health solutions. From aging, cancer, diabetes, anesthesiology, and infectious diseases – just to name a few – the School of Medicine’s strategy to enhance research programs is through supporting the faculty, students, residents, and staff with every available professional resource and expertise. A major initiative for the school is to provide quality lab space, recruit creative, innovative research faculty, and to develop graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for lifelong careers in medical research. Accomplishments during the last two years include: the renovation and construction of research space in Amarillo, El Paso, and Lubbock and continued and aggressive faculty recruitment with attractive start-up packages, and substantial increases in endowed chairs and external funding.
Texas Tech Physicians, our new region-wide practice name, is the largest group practice in West Texas with more than 450 full-time clinical faculty. The wide range of specialties and sub-specialties comprising the practice allow us to touch the lives of more than 224,000 patients each year. Expansion is underway in all of our regional facilities. In Lubbock, the new 150,000 square foot Texas Tech Physicians Medical Pavilion will open in September 2007. Design and construction of a new state-of-the-art research building is underway in Amarillo. The Permian Basin is increasing Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Internal Medicine services in the Tanglewood Facility in Midland, and the Family Medicine practice in Abilene continues to grow. Work is ongoing in El Paso to make the first four-year medical school on the Texas-Mexico border a reality.
Company History
Since 1978, the School of Medicine at Amarillo has trained medical students and residents with particular emphasis in clinical care. Over 70 medical students and over 75 residents receive training on our campus every year. Because of superior bed-side teaching, a high faculty-to-student ratio, and a wide range of clinical facilities our student and resident educational experiences are highly rated. Three hospitals, the local health department, Panhandle Mental Health Mental Retardation, several area nursing homes, and many private physician offices provide training sites. The Texas Tech Physician Clinics provide over 115,000 visits per year. Fellowships in geriatrics, women's health, and rural obstetrics add to our student and resident training program.
Research in Amarillo includes NIH-funded investigators in cancer immunology. Faculty participate in many multicenter clinical trials in cancer treatment. Our newly established Faculty Clinical Research Unit assists students and residents to collaborate with faculty and to prepare abstracts and case reports.
Benefits
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