Residency Program
Our trainees engage in collaborative learning across the spectrum of Family Medicine.
Why UTSW?
By the Numbers
367
Graduates since inception
34%
Residents from underrepresented minorities
81%
Female Residents
88%
Nonwhite residents
70%
Female faculty
52%
Nonwhite faculty
34
Full-time physician teaching faculty
22%
D.O. residents
53
Resident research projects presented at national conferences in 2019-2023
Program History
- 1974 – The Department of Family and Community Medicine is established.
- 1996 – The UT Southwestern Family Medicine Residency Program is established and recruits its first class of residents.
- 2002 – The UT Southwestern Family Medicine Residency Program merges with the St. Paul Family Medicine Residency Program and forms two clinical tracks:
- St. Paul Family Medicine Track
- Parkland Family Medicine Track
- 2005 –The residency program shifts to one track, the Parkland Family Medicine Track, with continuity clinic centered at Parkland Family Medicine Clinic with 10 positions per year.
- 2017 – The residency program expands to a 14-position per year program with a new partnership with Texas Health Resources Presbyterian Hospital Dallas (THD). This is the first academic program to launch in an alliance with Texas Health Resources, resulting in a new Family Medicine Residency clinic and many unique educational experiences for our residents. The program forms two clinical tracks:
- Parkland Family Medicine Practice
- Southwestern Health Resources Practice
- 2020 – The residency program re-integrates from two distinct clinical practice to one program with diverse experiences across county, academic, private and community clinical settings.
- 2025 – The residency program expanded to 16 positions per year program.
Our program has graduated more than 360 residents who have confidently entered private outpatient practice, hospital medicine, urgent care, a variety of fellowships, and academic medicine in the Dallas area and beyond.