Medicine and Public Health Dual Degree

The MD/MPH dual degree allows UTMB medical students to complete the MPH within the four years of medical school.

Advantages of Pursuing the MD/MPH Dual Degree

Areas of Interest

Supports study in research, global health, infectious disease, health care services and systems, and the social determinants of health.

Time

Eliminates an additional year of study. Shared credits between the John Sealy School of Medicine and School of Public and Population Health reduce the requirement to 30 hours, compared to 42 for the traditional MPH.

Cost

MPH costs cover tuition only. Fees are paid once through the John Sealy School of Medicine, not duplicated for the graduate degree.

Residency Match

Dual-degree graduates may be more competitive applicants including for residency programs that value physicians' understanding of population-level determinants of health, particularly programs that emphasize public health perspectives.

Application Requirements

All applications to the MD/MPH program should be submitted through SOPHAS Express. The deadline for the current cycle is June 15, 2026. Click to learn more.

The UTMB MPH graduates in the Public Health Leadership Concentration are expected to master the following competencies:

Design strategic leadership and change management initiatives to real-life challenges that drive transformative population health improvements across healthcare, public health, or community-based systems.
Develop and evaluate policies and advocacy campaigns that address access to care and health literacy with the goal of improving patient outcomes at local, national, and/or global levels.
Communicate public health concepts, research findings, and policy recommendations to build trust and promote informed decision-making among a broad range of audiences.
Integrate information and resources to make evidence-informed decisions for patients and populations.
Select public health and social services resources to address health-related needs in populations and individuals.

A professor speaks with an MD-MPH student about her poster at the 2025 Public Health Symposium

2026 MD/MPH Match Outcomes

Specialty (alphabetical)	Residency Program	Location
Anesthesiology^†	Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA	Chicago, IL
Child Neurology	Baylor College of Medicine	Houston, TX
Emergency Medicine	University of Chicago Medical Center	Chicago, IL
Emergency Medicine	University of Chicago Medical Center	Chicago, IL
Family Medicine	CommonSpirit Mountain Region	Westminster, CO
Family Medicine	John Peter Smith Hospital	Fort Worth, TX
General Surgery	Tulane University SOM	New Orleans, LA
General Surgery	UT Rio Grande Valley	Harlingen, TX
Internal Medicine	Kaiser Permanente–Oakland	Oakland, CA
Internal Medicine	University of Alabama Hospital–Birmingham	Birmingham, AL
Internal Medicine	UT Health Science Center Houston	Houston, TX
Internal Medicine	UT Southwestern Medical Center	Dallas, TX
Internal Medicine (Primary Care)	UCLA Medical Center	Los Angeles, CA
Interventional Radiology (Integrated)^‡	UC San Diego Medical Center	San Diego, CA
Neurology	UT Austin Dell Medical School	Austin, TX
Obstetrics & Gynecology	UC San Francisco	San Francisco, CA
Psychiatry	UTMB Galveston	Galveston, TX
Surgery-Preliminary	UTMB Galveston	Galveston, TX

† The student first completes a preliminary PGY-1 year in Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center–Dallas before starting the Anesthesiology residency at Northwestern.
‡ The student first completes a Transitional PGY-1 year at Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth before starting the Interventional Radiology residency at UC San Diego.

This table includes only students who consented to having their match results shared publicly. Some students opted out of public posting; the list may not reflect the full number of MD/MPH matches.