About the Institution
The University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth's medical school and more, is one of the tion's distinguished graduate academic health science centers, dedicated to education, research, patient care and service. It comprises the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM), the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), the School of Public Health (SPH) and the School of Health Professions (SHP), which includes the Physician Assistant Studies and the Physical Therapy Programs. UNT Health is the faculty practice providing direct patient care for the citizens of Tarrant County. A 33-acre, 1.2 million square-foot campus located in Fort Worth's Cultural District, the Health Science Center has a $220 million annual budget and adds approximately $500 million into Fort Worth's economy annually. It has a combined faculty of more than 400, a staff of more than 1,400 and 750 part-time and adjunct faculty from other institutions and the community. The Health Science Center began when TCOM accepted its first students in 1970. The first class of doctors of osteopathic medicine graduated in 1974. TCOM is Texas' only college of osteopathic medicine and one of only 28 in the tion. Roughly 65 percent of the more than 3,000 physicians it has trained practice in primary care fields, such as family medicine, interl medicine, obstetrics/gynecology and pediatrics. Other graduates have chosen specialties ranging from aerospace medicine to heart transplant surgery. TCOM has been ranked one of the top 50 medical schools in the tion for primary care by U.S. News & World Report each year since 2002. It has also been ranked as one of the Top 20 Medical Schools for Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine four times since 2005. With the establishment of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 1993, the me of the institution was changed to the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. In 1999 the Health Science Center joined UNT?s Denton and Dallas campuses to form the UNT System.

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