University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a young, academically-affiliated diagnostic radiology program (first class matriculated 2022) built on a mixed public safety-net and private-practice training model, anchored at Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin with substantial rotations at Dell Seton's Level I trauma center, Dell Children's pediatric Level I trauma/NICU center, and outpatient sites run by Austin Radiological Association, the region's largest private multispecialty radiology group. The curriculum explicitly blends academic subspecialty exposure (neuro, MSK, molecular imaging, VIR, pediatric) with structured exposure to private-practice business operations through the ARA partnership, alongside dedicated research months and an R4 "mini-fellowship" allowing subspecialty focus before graduation. All residents complete Dell Med's institution-wide Advancing Care Transformation curriculum emphasizing value-based care, quality improvement and health systems leadership, signaling that the program frames radiologists as systems-level participants rather than purely image interpreters. As a new, four-resident-per-class program embedded in a Tier 1 research university (UT Austin) and a fast-growing metro area, it appears to value residents comfortable with an evolving program culture and dual academic/private-practice career flexibility.