Dr. Mahmuda Begum, MD

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Get to know Hospitalist Dr. Mahmuda Begum, who serves patients in Austin, Texas.

Dr. Begum has been working as a hospitalist at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas since January of 2021.

Since 1924, St. David’s Medical Center has proudly provided Central Texans with exceptional medical care. Centrally located at 32nd Street & IH-35, it offers comprehensive services, a 24-hour Emergency Department, and leading-edge care in women’s services, neurosciences, cardiovascular services, orthopedics and rehabilitation. The Medical Center campus features a comprehensive stroke center, a Certified Chest Pain Center, the full-service St. David’s Rehabilitation Center, comprehensive Breast Center, and the largest Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the region.

A 2000 graduate of Mymensingh Medical College in Bangladesh, Dr. Begum relocated to the United States to further her training. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2010.

Following her education, she attained board certification in internal medicine through the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). The ABIM is a physician-led, non-profit, independent evaluation organization driven by doctors who want to achieve higher standards for better care in a rapidly changing world.

Locally, Dr. Begum is affiliated with Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple, Cedar Park Regional Medical Center, and Ascension Seton Williamson. She is also an active member of the American College of Physicians.

Hospital medicine is a medical specialty that exists in some countries as a branch of internal or family medicine, dealing with the care of acutely ill hospitalized patients. Physicians whose primary professional focus is caring for hospitalized patients only while they are in the hospital are called hospitalists.

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