Post by Logan on Jul 3, 2016 15:40:30 GMT -6
AUSTIN -- The new Dell Medical School welcomed its inaugural class of 50 students Sunday, 135 years after UT’s founding.
In 1881, Texans voted to have the main university in Austin while building the medical school in Galveston, the state’s largest city at the time. The initiative to bring a medical school to Austin came from state Senator Kirk Watson in 2011, who created a plan involving the University, Central Health — a health care provider to uninsured and underinsured residents and a taxing authority that uses local and federal funds to create health care services — and Seton Healthcare Family, a Catholic nonprofit health care system. Together, the three organizations aim to provide healthcare to low-income people in Austin.
In 2012, Travis County voters helped push Watson’s plan forward when they approved a proposition to raise property taxes in support of health care initiatives for Central Texas, including $35 million annually for a medical school.
Inaugural dean of the Dell Medical School, Clay Johnston, said the school is different than other medical schools because it is the first new school to be created at a top-tier university in decades. Additionally, everything about the school — from the curriculum to its mission statement — has been created from scratch over the last three years.
Read more: www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/06/30/dell-medical-school-welcomes-inaugural-class
In 1881, Texans voted to have the main university in Austin while building the medical school in Galveston, the state’s largest city at the time. The initiative to bring a medical school to Austin came from state Senator Kirk Watson in 2011, who created a plan involving the University, Central Health — a health care provider to uninsured and underinsured residents and a taxing authority that uses local and federal funds to create health care services — and Seton Healthcare Family, a Catholic nonprofit health care system. Together, the three organizations aim to provide healthcare to low-income people in Austin.
In 2012, Travis County voters helped push Watson’s plan forward when they approved a proposition to raise property taxes in support of health care initiatives for Central Texas, including $35 million annually for a medical school.
Inaugural dean of the Dell Medical School, Clay Johnston, said the school is different than other medical schools because it is the first new school to be created at a top-tier university in decades. Additionally, everything about the school — from the curriculum to its mission statement — has been created from scratch over the last three years.
Read more: www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/06/30/dell-medical-school-welcomes-inaugural-class