University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

UT Southwestern is the largest Ob/Gyn residency program in the country, an academic, university-based program built around Parkland Memorial Hospital's high-volume, underserved Dallas County population and staffed by faculty who author the Williams Obstetrics/Gynecology textbooks. The four-year curriculum is designed to produce autonomous, comprehensive Ob/Gyn generalists, with roughly half of each cohort entering fellowship (MFM, Gyn Onc, Urogyn, Complex Benign Gyn/MIGS) and half going directly into practice, reflecting a genuinely bifurcated career pipeline rather than an academic-only orientation. Research is resident-driven rather than mandated - about half participate in clinical research - but the program funds national conference travel, ACOG Junior Fellow membership, and hosts an annual Research Symposium, signaling structured but non-obligatory scholarly engagement. Distinctive features include its scale (18 residents/class, 6 divisions, 28 clinics), heavy safety-net obstetric volume at Parkland, formal wellness infrastructure (fuel-gauge check-ins, Wellness Wednesdays), and an explicit institutional identity centered on serving under-resourced women.