Although the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine opened a year after the University of Texas-Brownsville and the University of Texas-Pan American merged, the school has already accomplished so much.

With UTRGV celebrating a decade since its inception, the Med School has piled up a list of accomplishments during those 10 years.

MED SCHOOL APPROVED

In 2014, The University of Texas System Board of Regents approved the establishment of a medical school at UTRGV.

The board approved $54 million from the Permanent University Fund to begin the construction of the medical school in Edinburg.

The following year, when the school officially changed its name to UTRGV in 2015, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board gave the university permission to begin offering the M.D

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