About TTUHSC at El Paso
Texas Tech El Paso has played a vital role in El Paso's healthcare history. It has been the academic home to many outstanding medical students, residents, and faculty.
In 1969, the 61st Texas Legislature gave approval for a School of Medicine in West Texas. The School of Medicine would be a regional Institution, establishing campuses in Lubbock, El Paso, Amarillo, and Odessa.
The objectives of creating the School of Medicine were to provide quality medical education, address problems of healthcare delivery in rural areas, and develop programs throughout West Texas emphasizing the importance of primary healthcare.
In 1973, The Regional Academic Health Center in El Paso, now known as Texas Tech El Paso, officially opened with a teaching affiliation with R. E. Thomason General Hospital, accepting the entire medical school class for the first five years.
Today Texas Tech El Paso has close to 1,000 faculty and staff members. It is a flourishing health sciences center and medical center with clinics located in East, West, Central, and Northeast El Paso. Through community partnerships Texas Tech El Paso faculty members lend their skills to underserved areas lacking adequate healthcare.
Texas Tech El Paso's teaching affiliation with Thomason Hospital has remained steady throughout the years. Other affiliations include William Beaumont Army Medical Center and Providence Hospital.
In 2007, the 80th Texas Legislature passed a bill that provided the startup funds for the full four-year El Paso School of Medicine. The four-year El Paso School of Medicine included the establishment of a new campus which will consists of three buildings just a short walk from the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center.
The 125,000 square-foot medical classroom building includes classrooms, a library, small group rooms, basic sciences labs, a gross anatomy lab and a clinical skills area for instructing students. This building will also house faculty and administrative areas, a student services area, and food services.
Take a virtual tour of our new medical classroom building.