By NOAH TEW/ Editor-in-Chief and BRYNNA WILLIAMSON/ Managing Editor
After waiting anxiously for several months for the final verdict, UT Tyler has received good news.
The University of Texas System has approved $308 million for building a new Medical Education School – the first of its kind in Northeast Texas.
“By approving the total project cost, design development, and allocation of funds for the new Medical Educati
on Building today, the regents are taking the next pivotal step in launching the UT System’s 7th medical school – one that is specifically dedicated to benefitting Northeast Texas for generations,” said Kevin P. Eltife, Chairman of the UT Board of Regents.
The building will have five stories and be nearly 248,000 square feet. It will be built in Tyler’s Midtown District adjacent to UT Health East Texas Hospital for practical student access and hands-on learning.
According to a news release from the University of Texas system, the facility will be built with a complete medical education program in mind. In addition to specialty and outpatient services, the building will have exam rooms, specimen collection and processing and imaging facilities.
It will also include “blended programming and clinical spaces for patient care, including women’s imaging, women’s health, diagnostic center, orthopedics, and sports medicine, pulmonary and a surgery center to support medical residents in the graduate medical education programs.”
“This facility provides the physical cornerstone of UT Tyler’s plan to train physicians and meet health care needs across the state, while also growing workforce opportunities and economic development in the region,” said UT System Chancellor James B. Milliken.
The new UT facility is planned to be completed in March 2025. New students for the UT Tyler School of Medicine will begin in the summer of 2023.
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Editor’s Note: This is part of Project UT Tyler 2050, a Patriot Talon initiative looking at the university’s future. Previous stories in Project UT Tyler 2050 include:
UT Tyler Gifted $5 Million for School of Medicine
Calhoun: UT Tyler ‘Deserves a First Class Track and Field Facility’
Calhoun: ‘We Have to Find a Way to Increase Student Housing’
UT Tyler School of Medicine Receives Anonymous $4 Million Gift
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