Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Care
The clinical experience is a vital part of the respiratory care student's education. During this time, the student transitions from the classroom to the patient care setting.
Students will gain experience in a variety of hospital settings including the medical/surgical floor, adult, pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, high-risk delivery rooms, and special diagnostic areas. Other settings in which students will gain valuable clinical experience are in the home care setting, disease management clinics, and within physician practices. Students complete more than 1,000 hours of clinical time. Clinical sites are located across the country. We have clinical affiliations with some of the top hospital systems in the United States.
Clinical rotations in the curriculum may require that students relocate outside of San Antonio for the duration of the rotations. The expenses associated with these clinical rotations will vary according to individual arrangements for the cost of travel, temporary housing, etc. Students are encouraged to budget for major expenditures that could be associated with these assignments.
The following facilities serve as clinical affiliates for the Department of Respiratory Care:
Sites in San Antonio
- Audie Murphy Memorial Veteran's Affairs Hospital
- Children's Hospital of San Antonio
- Christus Santa Rosa Medical Center
- Kindred Hospital
- Methodist Hospital
- Mission Trails Baptist Hospital
- North Central Baptist
- Northeast Baptist Hospital
- San Antonio Military Medical Center Institute of Surgical Research
- San Antonio Military Medical Center
- Sleep Therapy & Research Center
- Southwest General Hospital
- St. Luke's Baptist Hospital
- Stone Oak Methodist
- Texas Center for Infectious Disease
- University Hospital
- Warm Springs
Sites outside of San Antonio
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
- Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Waco, Texas
- College Station Medical Center, College Station, Texas
- Dell Children's Medical Center, Austin, Texas
- Doctor's Hospital of Laredo, Laredo, Texas
- Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christi, Texas
- Florida Hospital Medical Center, Orlando, Florida
- University Medical Center Brackenridge, Austin, Texas
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
- Laredo Medical Center, Laredo, Texas
- Laredo Specialty Hospital, Laredo, Texas
- LSU Health Science Center, Shreveport, Louisiana
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- McAllen Medical Center, McAllen, Texas
- Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, Houston, Texas
- Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas
- Parkland Health & Hospital, Dallas, Texas
- Sid Peterson Hospital, Kerrville, Texas
- Valley Baptist Medical Center, Harlingen, Texas
- Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
- Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas
- Tri-City Community Hospital, Jourdanton, Texas
- Valley Baptist Medical Center, Harlingen, Texas