The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine is one of twelve medical schools in the state of

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. It is located on the main campus of

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Budget

The school's budget in 2009 was $415 million.

Rankings

* '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the school 42nd nationally in primary care in 2010. * University ranked 6th in the nation in clinical medicine research impact for the period 2001 to 2005. * Ranked 51st in the world in the 2010 clinical medicine rankings. * 1st for Hispanics in the medical school category. * 1st in

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funding for aging research. * Ranked 48th in

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funding for research grants among 3,181 institutes in 2004. * 10th in NIH funding for ''Cellular and Structural Biology''. * 17th in NIH funding for

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University hospital

The school's main teaching hospital is the

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, and was ranked among the top 50 hospitals in the U.S. in kidney disorders in 2010.

Departments

The departments are: * Anesthesiology * Cardiothoracic Surgery * Emergency Medicine * Epidemiology and Biostatistics * Family & Community Medicine * Medicine * Neurology * Neurosurgery * Obstetrics and Gynecology * Ophthalmology * Orthopaedics * Otolaryngology * Pediatrics * Psychiatry * Radiation Oncology *

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* Rehabilitation Medicine * Surgery * Urology

References

External links

The official website of the Medical School at UTHSCSA
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