During a commencement ceremony in May 2020, University of Texas System Regent Dr. Nolan Perez told the first 39 graduates of the UTRGV School of Medicine that they represented something significant.
Those graduates, Perez said, were more than just doctors or scholars: he called them the “literal embodiment of a dream come to fruition,” the end result of boatloads of funding capital and decades worth of striving for a medical school in the Valley.
“UTRGV and its school of medicine have forever changed the landscape of education and health care in the Valley,” Perez said. “And the impact will be felt for generations.”
The number of UTRGV graduate medical education alumni — the doctors who will make that impact — has climbed steadily since then.
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