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DeBakey High School, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District and is west of the Texas Medical Center. It is the only Houston magnet high school for health professions. The school was named after Michael E. DeBakey, a famous heart surgeon.
The University of Houston System Board of Regents voted to establish a medical school at the system's flagship campus in 2017. [1] The Texas Legislature authorized the medical school in 2019. [2] The UH College of Medicine enrolled its inaugural class of 30 students in 2020. All students in the inaugural class received full tuition scholarships ...
Pre-medical (often referred to as pre-med) is an educational track that undergraduate students mostly in the United States pursue prior to becoming medical students. It involves activities that prepare a student for medical school , such as pre-med coursework, volunteer activities, clinical experience, research, and the application process.
The University of Houston is a nationally recognized Tier One research university and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. [7] [8] [9] The third-largest university in Texas, the University of Houston has nearly 44,000 students on its 667-acre campus in southeast Houston as of 2017. [10]
In 1988, the physicians of MacGregor Medical Association, a physician’s practice affiliated with Texas Medical Center, founded the Academy of Health Care Professions. Its purpose was to provide quality training of allied health staff in-house, to support MacGregor’s growth.
The University of Houston (UH) is one of four separate and distinct institutions in the University of Houston System, and was known as University of Houston–University Park from 1983 to 1991. [28] [40] UH is the flagship institution of the UH System. It is a multi-campus university with a branch campus located in Sugar Land.
One of the largest medical schools in the United States, John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School was established by The University of Texas System Board of Regents in 1969 to help shore up the projected state and national shortages of physicians. The school is divided into 23 departments and various specialized research centers.
Recent campus crisis events have brought greater awareness to failures in existing university public safety policies at many schools. For some of these institutions, a restructuring of currently implemented policy has been undertaken, in order to ensure greater preparedness for the wide variety of man-made emergencies that can occur in a campus ...