In 1969, the Texas Legislature created our medical school to meet the state’s growing need for physicians. More than 50 years later, McGovern Medical School ranks among the nation’s most diverse medical schools and is presently the eighth-largest medical school in the United States.
Here, students, fellows, and residents work with other UTHealth schools and Texas Medical Center institutions as well as in inpatient hospitals and outpatient facilities throughout the city and in our network of UT Physicians clinics. As a result, they develop a wide range of skills; a holistic, compassionate approach to providing care; and a deeper understanding of the health care sector.
Many Faces. One Mission. is your opportunity to contribute to every aspect of their education—the type of education that creates the practitioners that patients want and our communities need.
Funding Priorities
Scholarships and Fellowships
Support the students and professionals who will help define the future of medicine.
Faculty Support
Bring health care’s finest to UTHealth to pursue their research and teach the next generation of physicians.
Advancing Brain and Behavioral Health
Make UTHealth the region’s leading center of research and care for brain and behavioral health.
Children’s Learning Institute
Help children reach their full potential by supporting our research and evidence-based clinical care and learning solutions.
The UTHealth COVID-19 Center of Excellence
Unite the best minds in Houston to pursue research that will help us better understand COVID-19 and its long-term impact.
Geriatric Care
Improve our aging population’s quality of life and health outcomes by amplifying research, training, and care.
Heart Health
Support the research, care, and community outreach that help prevent and treat the nation's leading cause of death.
Orthopedics and Orthopedic Trauma
Position our physicians and surgeons to provide the highest level of care—and support the research that moves care forward.
Pediatrics
Help us train the next generation of pediatricians, advance knowledge through research, and provide exceptional care.
“More students apply to McGovern Medical School than to any other public medical school in Texas. With our affordable tuition and fees, we are consistently rated as one of the best values in medical education, and with more than 900 accredited residency and fellowship positions, we offer an incredible breadth of clinical training programs. Our primary teaching hospital, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, recently was ranked second in the United States among major teaching hospitals.
Many Faces. One Mission. is the way we build on these accomplishments: an investment in our students and faculty—and in the health of every patient they treat.”
Richard Andrassy, MD
Executive Dean ad interim
Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professor in the Medical Sciences
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth