Claim: The University of Texas is starting "the first medical school at a major Tier One" university "in the last 50 years."
Fact-check: By one measure, UT poised to be first major university to open a medical school in nearly 50 years
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2013-11-08T00:00:00