WELCOME

Welcome to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
(UT Southwestern). We extend our best wishes for your success here and hope that you will find your work and your association with UT Southwestern both personally and professionally rewarding and enjoyable.

We believe that having a clear knowledge of what is expected of you and what you can expect from UT Southwestern will help enable you to achieve your professional goals and make significant contributions to UT Southwestern's success.

This employee guide is intended to acquaint you with UT Southwestern and to provide you with information about the university, employee benefits, policies, procedures and services. It provides answers to questions you may have now and that may arise in the future. Hopefully, it will serve as a valuable continuing resource to you throughout your association with UT Southwestern.

The information contained in this guide is presented in conformity with
the spirit and intent of the UT Southwestern Handbook of Operating Procedures,
UT Southwestern Human Resources Policy Memoranda, The University of Texas System Board of Regents' Rules and Regulations, and applicable state and federal law. For detailed information concerning a particular personnel policy or procedure, you should refer to the specific UT Southwestern Human Resources Policy Memorandum covering that subject. You may review UT Southwestern Human Resources Policy Memoranda by contacting your immediate supervisor or accessing them on the web at http://hr.swmed.edu/

The information contained in this guide is intended as a guide only. This guide does not constitute an official contract with The University of Texas System (UT System) or The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (UT Southwestern). While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, neither UT System nor UT Southwestern are responsible for any errors, omissions,
or inadvertent misrepresentations. The Employee Guidebook is periodically modified by UT Southwestern after approval of the executive vice chancellor for health affairs and other pertinent offices of UT System. Should the Employee Guidebook in any way conflict with either the UT Southwestern Handbook of Operating Procedures or the Regents' Rules and Regulations,
the Regents' Rules and Regulations and then the Handbook of Operating Procedures will control.