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

Program Identity & Fit

This is a large four-year academic PM&R program (33 residents, 17 faculty) built around a distinctive multi-institutional network spanning University Hospital's Reeves Rehabilitation Center, the South Texas Veterans Health Care System's polytrauma and spinal cord injury units (one of only five VA polytrauma centers nationally), Brooks Army Medical Center, PAM Health Warm Springs, and the Mays Cancer Center. The program's identity is anchored in complex inpatient rehabilitation - transplant recipients, polytrauma, spinal cord injury, and combat-related trauma - reflecting deep integration with San Antonio's military medicine infrastructure, alongside a full spectrum of outpatient subspecialty clinics (spine, MSK/ultrasound, spasticity, cancer rehab, sports). Procedural training is explicit and quantified (EMG/NCS, injections, botulinum toxin, ultrasound minimums), and every resident completes a research project plus a QI project, with faculty engaged in NIH/DoD-funded trials, though the program reads as clinically dominant rather than research-driven. The resident roster is heavily osteopathic and Texas-trained, suggesting a program comfortable with, and drawing from, DO and regional applicant pools.