The Houston campus of the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine is located in the world renowned Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world. The Texas Medical Center is home to 47 institutions, including 13 hospitals and two specialty institutions, three medical schools, four nursing schools, and schools of dentistry, public health, pharmacy, and other health-related practices. It receives over five million annual patient visits, including over ten thousand international patients.

A wide variety of clinical elective rotations are also offered at our affiliated institutions: MD Anderson Cancer Center, The Methodist Hospital, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, St. Joseph's Medical Center, and Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. Institutional, inter-institutional, and city-wide conferences are held on a regular basis for multiple specialties and provide numerous educational opportunities for students, physicians, scientists and other health care professionals.

In addition to numerous clinical and educational activities, research opportunities are diverse and plentiful. The College of Medicine and Institute of Biosciences and Technology provide a bridge between the Texas A&M University System scientists and other institutions' researchers working in the Texas Medical Center and in the growing biotechnology research community in Houston. Research opportunities for students and residents are available throughout the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine Houston Campus, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and The Methodist Hospital Research Institute.