University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a young, rapidly expanding academic program (established 2019) integrated into Dell Medical School's mission-driven, systems-focused approach to physician training, offering two categorical five-year positions per year through a combined Pediatrics-Neurology pathway. Training spans Dell Children's Medical Center (the only freestanding pediatric hospital in Central Texas, Level I trauma, Level IV NICU and epilepsy center) and Dell Seton Medical Center for adult neurology, with broad subspecialty exposure including epilepsy, neurogenetics, neuroimmunology, neuro-oncology, and global health electives in Africa and the Caribbean. Scholarly work is a structured expectation, with every resident completing a mentored project supported by an editor and statistician toward publication, alongside an annual resident publication award, reflecting a program building its academic identity as faculty ranks continue to grow. The program appears to value residents comfortable in a newer, still-developing multidisciplinary neuroscience program who can contribute to its expanding clinical and research footprint rather than seeking an entrenched, long-established department.