Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center logo.svg
MottoYour Life, Our Purpose.
Type Public health sciences university
EstablishedMay 27, 1969;55 years ago (1969-05-27)
Parent institution
 Texas Tech University System
Accreditation SACS
Endowment $275 million (2024)
(TTUHSC only) [1]
$3.06 billion (2024)
(system-wide) [1]
Budget$971 million (FY2025) [2]
Chancellor Tedd L. Mitchell
President Lori Rice-Spearman
Academic staff
760 (Fall 2023) [3]
Total staff
4,597 (Fall 2023) [3]
Students4,890 (Fall 2023) [3]
Location
Lubbock
,
Texas
,
United States

33°35′24″N101°53′31″W / 33.590°N 101.892°W / 33.590; -101.892
CampusUrban
Colors Scarlet and black [4]
   
Website www.ttuhsc.edu
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University Medical Center, the teaching hospital of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock TThsc.jpg
University Medical Center, the teaching hospital of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) is a public medical school based in Lubbock, Texas, with additional campuses in Abilene, Amarillo, Dallas, and the Permian Basin. TTUHSC serves more than 100 counties in the western portion of Texas. The university is a separate institution from Texas Tech University; both universities are among five universities that are part of the Texas Tech University System. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, founded in 1969 as a branch campus of TTUHSC, became a separate institution in 2013.

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Schools

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) has campuses in Lubbock, Abilene, and Amarillo. The school offers doctoral and master's degrees in biomedical sciences, as well as professional certificates and dual degrees in collaboration with the School of Medicine. [5]

School of Health Professions

The school began in 1983 as the School of Allied Health Sciences and currently has campuses in Amarillo, Lubbock, and the Permian Basin. More than 1,800 students are currently enrolled in 20 different degree programs at the doctoral, master's and baccalaureate degree levels. These programs include areas of study, such as athletic training, audiology, clinical management, medical laboratory science, molecular pathology, physical and occupational therapy, physician assistant, rehabilitation, and speech-language pathology. [6]

School of Medicine

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in Lubbock has awarded more than 3,000 Doctor of Medicine degrees since its first graduating class in 1974. [7] [8] The school was commissioned to train physicians to help meet the health care needs of residents of West Texas, a population that now includes more than 2.5 million people. When the school opened, West Texas had one physician for every 1,300 residents. Currently, the ratio is about one physician for every 750 residents. Students spend their first two years of study in Lubbock and their last two years studying in Amarillo, Odessa or Lubbock. A self-proclaimed major initiative for the school is to "recruit creative, innovative research faculty and to develop graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for lifelong careers in medical research." [7]

School of Nursing

The school has campuses in Abilene, Amarillo, Lubbock, Dallas, and Odessa, with additional learning sites in Mansfield, San Antonio, and Austin; and it educates more than 1,000 students each year. Bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in nursing are issued by the school. The School of Nursing offers the only Doctor of Nursing Practice program in West Texas. The school is known for its alternatives to traditional educational opportunities including online coursework for a registered nurse to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, a second-degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing program for students with a bachelor's degree in another subject, and a Veteran to Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree for veterans with military medical experience who wish to earn a nursing degree but already have considerable knowledge that distinguishes them from a traditional nursing student. [9]

School of Pharmacy

The School of Pharmacy's administrative hub is located in Amarillo and the school has regional campus sites in Lubbock, Dallas and Abilene. The school has two Dallas-area regional sites: one located on the grounds of the North Texas Veterans Administration Medical Center and the second located within the central Dallas medical district.

Lubbock faculty and residents also operate the TTUHSC Pharmacy, which provides medications and biologicals to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Montford Unit Regional Medical Facility; the TTUHSC International Pain Institute; the Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center; and TTUHSC clinics in Lubbock, Odessa and El Paso. The TTUHSC Pharmacy also provides telepharmacy services to the rural communities of Turkey and Earth, Texas. The first telepharmacy prescription dispensed in Texas occurred September 18, 2002, between the TTUHSC Pharmacy and the Turkey Medical Clinic. [7]

Julia Jones Matthews School of Population and Public Health

The Julia Jones Matthews School of Population and Public Health is located on the Abilene and Lubbock campuses.

Campuses

CampusEstablishedEnrollment by School (Fall 2022) [3]
Biomedical SciencesHealth ProfessionsMedicineNursingPharmacyPublic HealthTotal
Abilene 200723——184854296
Amarillo 1972254910455110—343
Dallas 1999————236—236
Distance Education1999—1,043—1,190—1022,335
Lubbock
Flagship Campus		19699565556530125191,660
Permian Basin
(Midland, Odessa)		1979—1714550——266
Total Students1431,9187141,7804561255,136

Institutes and centers

Objectives

The presence of TTUHSC has impacted the access to health care in West Texas. Over 20% of the physicians currently practicing in West Texas are TTUHSC medical school or residency graduates. The schools of Nursing and Health Professions impact West Texas, with most of their graduates remaining in West Texas to pursue their chosen profession. Over 80% of School of Pharmacy graduates have chosen to practice in Texas. [11]

Traditions

White Coat ceremony

Usually held in August, a new group of first-year medical students participate in the White Coat Ceremony each year. This event is a rite of passage for first-year medical students as they don their coats and take a Hippocratic oath affirming their commitment to the highest standards of ethics and patient care. At the TTUHSC School of Medicine in Lubbock, the ceremony is held at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. [12]

People

Alumni

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NASA astronaut Bernard A. Harris Jr.

Faculty

Presidents

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  2. ↑ "FY 2025 Consolidated Operating Budget" (PDF). Texas Tech University System. August 19, 2024. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Fact Book" (PDF) (30th ed.). Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. December 2023. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
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  6. ↑ State of Texas and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. "SAHS". Archived from the original on January 4, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 State of Texas and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. "About our school". Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
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  9. ↑ Archived November 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
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