"Baylor operates at the heart of the world's largest medical complex, independently and in deep partnership with every major institution around us. We train physicians who can collaborate across institutions, disciplines, and communities."
"The Baylor Medicine clinics serve communities across Houston — the Fifth Ward, East End, Missouri City. And our students train at Texas Children's, the VA, and Ben Taub. The breadth of that clinical training is unmatched. Stations test whether you can think across that entire spectrum."
"Baylor's National School of Tropical Medicine has developed a vaccine for Chagas disease — a parasitic infection affecting millions in Latin America, particularly low-income communities. A major pharmaceutical company offers to license the vaccine but wants to set a price point that will make it inaccessible to the communities who need it most. What should Baylor do?"
Practice this scenario with AI →this is one of the most distinctive aspects of Baylor's global health identity.
who benefits from academic medical center research is one of the most important global health ethics debates.
Baylor's community clinics are in specific neighborhoods with specific histories.
"In 14 years of examining I have never failed a candidate for giving the 'wrong' answer. I have failed candidates for how they treated the person in the room with them."
Know the Bayh-Dole Act: it allows academic institutions to patent inventions developed with federal funding. This creates academic patents — and the ethical obligation to ensure those inventions benefit the public.
Know "march-in rights" — the federal government's theoretical ability to require licensing to ensure public access to publicly funded inventions. This is the legal mechanism behind the Baylor vaccine access debate.
Practice the pharmaceutical pricing ethics argument: when a medicine is developed with public funding at a nonprofit institution and then priced out of reach of those who need it most, what obligations exist and to whom?
The Houston Fifth Ward is one of the oldest African-American communities in the South; it faces high rates of industrial pollution from the rail yards and chemical plants nearby, contributing to elevated cancer and respiratory disease rates.
Houston's East End is predominantly Latino with a large Central American immigrant population; a community health center-focused approach is required given high uninsured rates and language barriers.
Baylor's student-run Baylor Bridges Clinic provides free primary care in underserved Houston neighborhoods — knowing this signals genuine engagement with the school's community mission.
Texas Children's Hospital is the nation's largest children's hospital — training there means pediatric ethics, parental consent, and child welfare decisions.
The Houston VA serves one of the largest veteran populations in the US — PTSD, TBI, and the transition from military to civilian care are specific clinical competencies.
MD Anderson Cancer Center is one of the world's leading cancer hospitals — rotating there exposes students to cutting-edge oncology ethics, clinical trial access, and end-of-life care in a cancer context.
The access-to-medicines station was directly about Baylor's Chagas vaccine — a school-developed vaccine that a pharma company wanted to price out of reach of Latin American communities. Know the Bayh-Dole Act and the public benefit argument.
Baylor's TMC training is genuinely diverse — I rotated through Texas Children's, Ben Taub, and a Baylor community clinic in the Fifth Ward in the same week. The station about community benefit from academic research felt very specific to that range.
The global health station about neglected tropical diseases asked me to reason through why NTDs don't get research funding proportional to their burden. Know the "90/10 gap" argument in global health research funding.