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Three elements form the basis of the TTUHSC School of Medicine’s mission – teaching physicians, providing top-notch health care for the people of the South Plains and conducting research to unlock continuing medical mysteries. The Health Sciences Center faculty believes balance among these three elements will improve health care for generations of West Texans.

The School of Medicine was founded in May 1969 by the 61st Legislature of Texas to address the urgent need to train more physicians for West Texas. Many counties at that time had no practicing physicians. The original medical school design included campuses in El Paso and Amarillo with the headquarters in Lubbock.

Almost 40 years later, this founding concept holds true. A campus has been added in Odessa and plans are under way to open new medical school campus in El Paso. The need to train more physicians for West Texas remains at the forefront of our work.