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Mission and Vision

About Us

The University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine was founded to address the shortage of physicians and lack of access to healthcare in East Texas, with the singular goal of improving the quality of life and health in our region.

Mission

The School of Medicine's mission is fourfold:

Community: Embed the School of Medicine within East Texas, focusing on communication, responsiveness, and community. The School of Medicine is East Texas, and everything we do will be in partnership with our communities.

Education: Recruit, support and develop a representative healthcare and research workforce from East Texas, focused on reducing health disparities in East Texas.

Research: Develop an array of biomedical, clinical, translational and population-based research programs focused on understanding and eliminating health disparities in East Texas.

Clinical: Expand access to top-quality healthcare in the local communities of East Texas by developing and implementing innovative healthcare systems and leveraging existing infrastructure and programs.

The School of Medicine's mission will be accomplished by:

Creating an exceptional interprofessional learning experience that produces a broadly trained and committed clinical workforce.
Educating culturally competent physician leaders who focus on individual wellness, population health, emotional and mental health, as well as physical disease.
Training future physicians to embrace responsibility for the unique needs of rural and hard-to-reach communities and populations, particularly in East Texas.
Maintaining a skilled faculty of educators and mentors who create a culture of innovation, scholarly achievement, entrepreneurship, trust and excellence that fosters humanistic patient-centered care.
Engaging East Texas regional communities in identifying local qualified candidates and cultivating community-engaged physicians dedicated to improving public health outcomes.
Promoting and protecting the health of people and the community of East Texas where they live, learn, work and play.
Supporting a robust learning community that seeks to advance a passion for science and health.

Our Vision:

The vision of the School of Medicine is to improve the quality of life and improve access to care in our rural region by training committed and regionally-focused physician leaders who work cooperatively with interprofessional teams to develop innovative, value-based healthcare systems; provide the highest quality care; discover novel treatments and improve processes; and partner with the community to address social determinants of health.