Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation

About Us

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC El Paso) is the fastest growing medical school in Texas. With a 25-year tradition of excellence in clinical education, TTUHSC El Paso prepares medical students and residents for careers in medicine, and is one of the area's major health care providers.

In addition to El Paso's program for third- and fourth-year medical students, TTUHSC El Paso offers 11 residency programs in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pathology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery, and a first-year program for residents who are undecided on their career specialty.

An innovator in health professional education, TTUHSC El Paso developed the state's first accredited civilian residency program in emergency medicine in 1982, and later worked with William Beaumont Army Medical Center to establish joint residency programs in orthopaedics and pathology.

TTUHSC El Paso provides unique multicultural educational opportunities. The center serves an urban border population of more than 700,000 abutted by the rural areas where health care facilities and providers are few. El Paso is innovative in the development of health care delivery potentials through multidisciplinary, community-based programs.

Access to care is an issue for many low-income El Pasoans due to economic constraints and lack of transportation, particularly in the rural, peripheral areas. TTUHSC El Paso is improving access in these areas through school-based facilities, in which pediatricians from TTUHSC El Paso host prima/care clinics. Children are treated for a full spectrum of ailments, and for many, this provides their only contact with a physician. Access reaches even farther as the departments of pediatrics, orthopedic surgery, and neurology regularly visit isolated, far West Texas communities, offering specialized care for developmental and learning disabilities, illnesses, and chronic diseases.