Case Studies

Multidisciplinary teams at Dell Medical School are leveraging community partnerships and world-class research to improve the spectrum of cancer prevention and care, with a special focus on vulnerable populations.

Residents and fellows at Dell Med are honing their skills in the community and learning to take on systemic challenges in the health care. Right here in Central Texas, the impact is already measurable.

Value-based health care is about efficiently achieving better health outcomes. Dell Med is home to leaders in the value-based care movement — and to an online curriculum that trains health leaders in delivering value to patients.

In part due to support from Dell Med’s Texas Health Catalyst, an affordable, time-saving test for heart-failure patients to use in their homes will soon be available. And that’s only the beginning.

Volunteer students are making a difference — and getting real-world experience — at the Dell Med-supported C.D. Doyle Clinic in downtown Austin, which serves everyone, regardless of their ability to pay.

Women in Travis County are getting much-needed care and attention for complex gynecological issues, such as pelvic floor disorders, chronic pelvic pain and vulvar disorders.

A call for community proposals, open to anyone, is resulting in real change: a new university course designed to teach empathy for homelessness through experiential learning.

A community-wide project is making sure screening for colorectal cancer is available to those facing the greatest challenges to health.

Dell Med programs are working to make sure an increasingly diverse body of students have opportunity to explore the health professions. It’s good for the students … and it’s good for the system.

Physicians need to be prepared to think holistically about health, which is in large part driven by what happens after a person leaves the clinic or the hospital. Dell Med’s curriculum is making sure it happens.