The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern, UTSW) is a large medical education and biomedical research institution in the United States. It is located in the Southwestern Medical District of Dallas, Texas. With approximately 13,568 employees and 2,445 faculty and over 2.7 million outpatient visits per year, UT Southwestern is the largest medical school in the UT System and state of Texas.UTSW's operating budget in 2019 was more than $3.152 billion , and is the largest medical institution in the Dallas Metroplex (and therefore north Texas), annually training about 3,700 medical, graduate, and health professions students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows. Ongoing support from outside sources provides approximately $422.6 million per year for more than 5,700 research projects. In 2017, the school had the largest federal expenditure funding of all UT medical institutions at $204.5 million dollars.UTSW's three-part mission is to: educate leaders in patient care, biomedical science, and disease prevention; conduct research; and deliver patient care. It incorporates three major degree-granting institutions – UT Southwestern Medical School, UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and UT Southwestern School of Health Professions. UTSW has four major affiliated hospitals: Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas Children's Medical Center, Zale Lipshy University Hospital, and William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital. However UT Southwestern's faculty also provide services at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, VA North Texas Health Care System, and other affiliated hospitals and community clinics in the Metroplex. Faculty and residents care for more than 100,000 hospitalized patients and oversee approximately 2.2 million outpatient visits a year, including more than $106.7 million in unreimbursed clinical services annually.