University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is an academic, county-based Emergency Medicine program anchored at University Hospital, South Texas's busiest Level I adult and only Level I pediatric trauma center, serving 22 counties and over 80,000 patients annually with high acuity and heavy procedural volume. The program is explicitly built around training physicians for low-resource, underserved, and global settings, with a dedicated refugee clinic, tropical medicine and global health emphasis reflecting San Antonio's multicultural, border-adjacent population. Twenty-seven fellowship-trained faculty support named longitudinal tracks (Ultrasound, Wilderness/Survival Medicine, EMS, Global Health, Toxicology, Critical Care, Medical Education), and residents graduate prepared for both academic and community practice, with research described as a departmental value supported through symposia and faculty mentorship rather than a mandatory scholarly output pathway. The program values residents drawn to service-oriented, resource-limited medicine and comfort operating in a high-volume safety-net environment.