University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School-Ascension Seton Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-affiliated academic neurology program in Austin, run jointly across the Dell Seton and Ascension Seton sites as a single equivalent training experience, with a growing 100+ member department and fellowships in neurophysiology, neuroimmunology and vascular neurology. The curriculum is distinctive for weighting outpatient neurology equally with inpatient care (targeting 50:50 after intern year), running resident-driven continuity clinics across academic, VA, community (CommUnityCare in East Austin), and satellite sites, and eliminating 24-hour call in favor of a 4+1 outpatient-inpatient block structure. Research and quality improvement projects are encouraged early in training and supported by UT Austin's broader research infrastructure, but the program's stated aspiration is to graduate "master clinicians" who treat clinic and hospital as laboratories for care-transformation rather than to produce pure physician-scientists. Structural features—Foundations in Care Transformation curriculum, chief rounds, stroke huddle, close 1:1 faculty mentorship, and named subspecialty rotations (vascular, epilepsy, neurocritical care, child neurology)—signal a program valuing clinical reasoning depth, teaching skill, and systems-level engagement alongside bedside excellence.