UTMB - Office of Admissions: Admission Requirements

Non-Texas residents, MD/PhD, DO/PhD, and MD/MBA applicants will not be included in the match process. Medical schools may begin extending offers of acceptance to these applicants beginning October 15.

Prior to the match, medical schools may extend offers of acceptance to Texas residents for a period between November 15 and December 31.

A medical school may extend an offer of acceptance to any Texas resident applicant during this period.
An applicant may receive offers of acceptance from more than one medical school during this period.
During this period, medical schools may take reasonable actions to recruit applicants to whom offers have been extended.

Applicants holding multiple offers on December 31 will be allowed to retain only one of the offers. By January 15 they will be required to choose the one offer they wish to retain and decline the offers from the other TMDSAS participating school(s).

These actions will be submitted online to TMDSAS where they will be monitored to assure compliance with the January 15 deadline.
The purpose of this action is to monitor multiple acceptances and establish a date certain for the medical schools to know the remaining number of positions needed to fill their classes through the match process.

The regular match will be conducted on February 1 to fill the remaining slots for the medical schools.

Applicants not holding an offer will submit a preference list ranking all schools where they interviewed
Applicants holding the one offer will also submit a preference list ranking that school and any other school(s) where they interviewed and did not receive a pre-match offer, if desired.
The deadline for applicants to submit their preferences online is January 15.
An applicant holding a pre-match offer who matches to a school he/she ranked higher than the pre-match offer school will automatically be withdrawn from the pre-match offer school and all other lower ranked schools. The applicant continues to remain open to be selected by schools he/she ranked higher.

Following the match, the standard rolling admissions will continue through the beginning of orientation at each medical school.

On January 1, 2004, a new Joint Commission of Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) standard became effective requiring criminal background checks for security purposes on all employees, staff, and volunteers who supervise care, render treatment, and provide services. The site governing this policy can be found at: http://www.utmb.edu/policy/ihop/search/03-03-02.pdf

Individual institutions have been given the responsibility for mandating this clearance for students. The UTMB School of Medicine policy states that students who are assigned to clinical facilities that require criminal background checks for security purposes must comply with and receive clearance from affiliated institutions in order to participate in clinically related activities. Therefore, in keeping with this policy, all students will be required to undergo a background check for security clearance in order to matriculate into UTMB.