University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler Program

Neurology Analyst Verified · Oct 3, 2026

University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler Program

University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler Program is a residency program specializing in Neurology, located in Tyler, Texas, directed by Shilpa Chitnis, MD, PhD and coordinated by Kimberly Tutt.. International Medical Graduates interested in this program may contact the program coordinator directly at Kimberly.Tutt@uthct.edu. IMGPrep analysts have verified and compiled this program’s IMG acceptance rate, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 score requirements, Visa Sponsorship Policy, graduation year cutoff, and ECFMG certificate requirements — available to IMGPrep subscribers.

Program Identity & Fit

This is a newly ACGME-approved, advanced (PGY-2 entry) neurology residency in Tyler, Texas, positioned explicitly as a regional-development program addressing physician shortage in East Texas, with the stated hope that graduates remain to practice in the region. It is a small program (four residents per year) built from the ground up, currently relying on letters of agreement with outside institutions in Tyler and Dallas for subspecialty exposure (child neurology, autoimmune neurology, neuro-oncology, epilepsy) and on co-located Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Radiology and Neurosurgery programs for multidisciplinary support rather than an established in-house subspecialty infrastructure. The program frames its mission around graded autonomy toward safe, affordable, equitable independent practice, explicitly welcoming residents pursuing either direct community practice or fellowship, without weighting research, publications, or prior clinical experience in selection. Given its founding status, the program appears to value adaptable, mission-oriented applicants comfortable helping shape a program's culture and identity rather than stepping into an established, highly structured tertiary academic pathway.

Who it fits

An applicant drawn to general adult neurology with a genuine interest in East Texas or underserved regional practice, comfortable with a flexible, still-forming curriculum and open to either community practice or later fellowship rather than a predetermined academic/research trajectory.

Research intensity

Low - research is not emphasized in selection or program identity; the institution has research centers, but the neurology program itself does not describe research expectations for residents.

Career orientation

Mixed - Community Practice, Fellowship

Important

The program states it does not exclude applicants based on publications or research experience, and describes itself as newly founded with the explicit hope that residents will remain to practice in the East Texas region.

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