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Temple A. Ratcliffe, MD, MS-HPEd, FACP

Director, Internal Medicine Clerkship

Associate Professor/Clinical

Dr. Temple Ratcliffe is a published, board-certified Hospitalist who joined UT Health San Antonio in 2014 as an Assistant Professor/Clinical, rising to the rank of Associate Professor/Clinical in 2016 and serving as Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship. He maintains active clinical service at both University Hospital and the South Texas Veterans' Healthcare System on both teaching and non-teaching inpatient Hospital Medicine and Medicine Consult services. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2003 before going on to complete his Internal Medicine residency at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium at Wilford Hall Medical Center in 2006. Dr. Ratcliffe also holds a Masters in Health Professions Education and is board-certified in Internal Medicine with the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Ratcliffe was inducted into the Gold Humanism Society as a Faculty Member in 2017 and was awarded UT's "Presidential Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching" in March 2020; he has also received the CDIM's "Educational Research Award" (2021), "Outstanding Medicine Attending" (2017), "Outstanding Medical Educator: Division of Hospital Medicine" (2015), "Outstanding Faculty" (2015), and numerous others both for his academic and USAF service. He was also awarded the Division of Hospital Medicine's "Educator of the Year Award" (2022) and the "Triple Threat Award" (2022) for demonstrating excellence in medical education, patient care, and research.