Dr. Randall H. Schuster, MD

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Get to know Emergency Physician Dr. Randall H. Schuster, who serves patients in Texas.

Dr. Schuster is a board-certified emergency physician who has been with GSEP Emergency Medicine since July of 2007.

GSEP Emergency Medicine is an independent and democratic association comprised of over 80 full-time emergency medicine physicians serving 10 hospitals and over 200,000 patients per year in San Antonio, Texas.

Educated in Texas, Dr. Schuster graduated with his medical degree from the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in 1991. He then went on to perform both his internship in internal medicine and his residency in emergency medicine with San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium in 1992 and 1995, respectively. 

Subsequent to his training, the doctor attained board certification in emergency medicine through the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM). The ABEM certifies emergency physicians who meet its educational, professional, and examination standards. 

Emergency medicine, also known as accident and emergency medicine, is the medical specialty concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. An emergency physician is a physician who works at an emergency department to care for acutely ill or injured patients. They care for unscheduled and undifferentiated patients of all ages.

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