At the Long School of Medicine and within the university, we take pride in our flat hierarchy. You’ll get respect as a doctor right from the start of your medical residency or fellowship.

But most importantly, you’ll receive respect as a human. We pride ourselves in the diverse community we’ve built, with trainees and faculty representing a wide range of races and ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities, socioeconomic backgrounds and skill sets.

And the work doesn’t stop there. We remain in the constant pursuit of ensuring that everyone feels embraced and like they can achieve success — especially those from historically underrepresented groups. Our institution’s Office for Inclusion and Diversity keeps us on course toward this goal every day.

You’ll receive training and mentorship from world-renowned faculty, some of whom wrote the textbooks you’ve commonly referenced in your chosen specialty. Our faculty work with our residents to understand what they want to do in medicine and help them get there. And whether you’re a resident or fellow, our faculty will help you define who you are as a doctor.

Transitioning from medical school to residency and then fellowship can be challenging. But it is often in the circumstances that test us where camaraderie develops and some of the most special bonds are forged. Our trainees are a close-knit group of individuals who start off as colleagues with similar clinical interests and become lifelong friends.

Located in the heart of San Antonio’s South Texas Medical Center, our campus is surrounded by hospitals, clinics and surgical centers. Surgery residents have access to the Johnson Center for Surgical Innovation, a 1,300 square-foot simulation training facility that helps you develop surgical skills.

Our campus also includes patient care facilities where you’ll complete some of your training:

• UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, part of the Mays Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated patient care and research center that also includes a leading drug discovery program, the Institute for Drug Development
• UT Health Medical Arts & Research Center, a large multispecialty outpatient facility and designated NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home that includes a same-day surgery center, imaging, physical therapy center, laboratory and pharmacy
• Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, the region’s first center dedicated to providing a full range of dementia care, as well as research and clinical trials
• Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, one of two pediatric cancer research institutes in the United States, which has developed more innovative treatments in national trials than any other center in the nation
• Sam & Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity & Aging Studies, a research institute dedicated to understanding the biology of aging and discovering treatments for diseases associated with aging
• South Texas Research Facility, one of the largest laboratory facilities in the state, which houses many different labs and offices, including our Optical Imaging Facility and the Bioanalytics and Single-Cell Core (BASiC) lab, as well as our Office of Technology Commercialization and the Office of the Vice President for Research

To locate individual buildings and areas, check out our campus maps.

To give you a well-rounded residency or fellowship experience, we offer training at a variety of locations, which distinguishes our institution from others. Our partner facilities provide exposure to different care settings and patient populations, as well as a full range of care options and advanced technology.

University Health System, which includes a nationally recognized teaching hospital and outpatient care centers, delivers advanced treatment options using the latest technology and research. University Health System partner locations include:

• University Hospital, a teaching partner that offers a broad range of specialized care options and a Level I trauma center
• Robert B. Green Campus, an outpatient clinic located in downtown San Antonio that includes various primary and specialty care practices
• Texas Diabetes Institute, one of the largest and most complete diabetes care centers in the United States

Watch as current and former residents at University Health System and The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio share what they learned and how they grew throughout their training.

We also partner with facilities in San Antonio and surrounding areas, including:

• Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital, the seventh largest VA hospital in the United States
• Brooke Army Medical Center & Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, where local members of the military and their family members receive care
• Methodist Healthcare, which includes eight adult hospitals and a children’s hospital
• Baptist Health System, which includes six hospitals, a children’s hospital, cancer network and outpatient services
• CHRISTUS Health System, which serves parts of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico, as well as the countries of Chile, Colombia and Mexico
• The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, the first freestanding children’s hospital in San Antonio and part of CHRISTUS Health System