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The four campuses operate a total of 31 clinical departmental units and numerous clinical services and education programs which were previously unavailable in the West Texas region. In more than 40 years of educational training, the School of Medicine has graduated more than 3,000 physicians. During the past 10 years, 58 percent of those graduates have remained in Texas to complete residency training and an average of 21 percent of the SOM graduates have remained at TTUHSC for their residency training.
In the past five years, an average of 46 percent of graduates have chosen to enter primary care specialties – family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics.
On each of the campuses, a majority of the graduates who choose to stay in West Texas chose to stay within a 75-mile radius of their campus city. The regional campus system is fulfilling the original intention of the legislation that created this medical school—training physicians for West Texas.