Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
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| Motto | From here, it's possible. |
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| Type | State university |
| Established | May 1969 |
| Chancellor | Kent Hance |
| President | Tedd Mitchell, MD |
| Dean | Steven Lee Berk, MD (Medicine) |
| Students | 550 |
| Location | Lubbock, Texas, U.S. |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | Texas Tech University System |
| Website | http://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/ |
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine (SOM) is located in Lubbock, Texas and is one of TTUHSC's six schools and one of TTUHSC's two medical schools. TTUHSC is part of the larger Texas Tech University System. The SOM was originally chartered in 1969 to train more physicians for the underserved populations of West Texas. To date, more than 3,000 Doctors of Medicine have graduated from the SOM. The school offers traditional four-year curriculum, as well as an accelerated three-year track and joint degree programs.
The School of Medicine (SOM) located in Lubbock, Texas was established as the Texas Tech University School of Medicine in 1969 by the 61st Texas Legislature, and the SOM first graduated Doctors of Medicine in 1974. The SOM has grown into the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), and the SOM is now just one school within TTUHSC. The SOM was commissioned to educate physicians to serve West Texas. Currently, 20% of physicians in West Texas were trained at TTUHSC. Often, graduating physicians have gone on to train at Texas residency training programs or other top hospitals throughout the country including those associated with Cleveland Clinic, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Mt. Sinai Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, University of Washington, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and Washington University in St. Louis.
Didatic training during the first two years of medical school takes place in the Academic Classroom Building (ACB) at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (HSC) in Lubbock, Texas. The ACB was built in 2003 and is over 62,000 square feet. It contains two large lecture halls, three medium-sized lecture halls, eleven conference rooms, open study spaces, and a large laboratory space for neuroanatomy studies. The anatomy laboratory is located in an adjoining HSC building. Simulated clinical experiences also take place in an adjoining HSC building in the school's SimLife Center. The center's more than 24,000 square feet of space were completed in 2010. The HSC is physically connected to the county hospital, University Medical Center (UMC).
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