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The University of Virginia Health System
At the University of Virginia, the patient forms the basis for all programs to educate and train physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals. Patients come to the Medical Center for routine visits, for monitoring of acute conditions, and for complex procedures and treatments. The variety of patients and medical conditions provides students with an opportunity to work in a setting that emulates future clinical practice. The medical facilities and the educational programs illustrate the University of Virginia's commitment to provide outstanding and comprehensive inpatient and ambulatory care.
University Hospital
Serving as one of the major acute-care referral institutions in central and western Virginia, the University Hospital cares for approximately 27,000 inpatients and over 400,000 outpatients annually. The eight-story facility currently staffs 552 beds and 61 Infant bassinets, and includes a burn unit, a renal unit, a clinical research center, and seven separate intensive care units.
West Complex
The West Complex contains the Cancer Center, the Kidney Center, and most of the out-patient clinics for surgery and the surgical subspecialties such as ophthal-mology, otolaryngology, neurosurgery, and urology, as well as radiation oncology, and neurology. The rest of the facility contains additional office, research, and teaching space.
Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center
A hospital within a hospital and one of the most unusual organizations of its type in the country, KCRC brings together a variety of pediatric specialties and provides both hospital and outpatient care using an interdisciplinary team approach.
The Primary Care Center
Adjacent to University Hospital, the Primary Care Center offers preventive and primary care for children and adults, obstetric and gynecologic care for women, and overall family care. Comprehensive specialty care is also available at this location. Within the same building, there is a dental clinic, an orthopedic clinic, dermatological services, and pediatric subspecialty care, as well as other specialized medical care.
The Cancer Center
One of only 18 clinical cancer centers in the country designated by the National Cancer Institute, the Cancer Center takes a multidisciplinary approach to cancer care, research, and education. The Cancer Center provides diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with all types of cancer. The Center seeks to bring the benefits of ongoing, highly sophisticated cancer research to clinical cancer treatment. Researchers work side by side with doctors and nurses to ensure that research developments directly benefit cancer patients. Participating clinical divisions include Hematology/Oncology, Radiation Therapy, Surgical Oncology, Gynecologic Oncology, Pediatric Oncology, Head and Neck Oncology, Urologic Oncology and the Breast Clinic. Seventy staff investigators and more than $22 million in grant funds promise that the center's medical care will always be united with the latest in medical advances.
Children's Medical Center
The Children's Medical Center (CMC) of the University of Virginia is a comprehensive network of health care facilities dedicated to the care of children from birth through adolescence. CMC is a hospital without walls that comprises the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, and its services extend across the Central Virginia community and beyond.
The Digestive Health Center of Excellence
The Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship Program at the University of Virginia Health System is an exceptional opportunity to train with world renowned clinicians and researchers with access to the latest in advanced diagnostic and procedural equipment. If you are accepted to our program you will interact with leaders in academic and clinical gastroenterology and hepatology.
The Heart Center
The Heart Center provides medical care for patients who do not need surgery. The Division of Cardiology provides diagnostic and non-invasive tests, cardiac cathaterization, balloon angioplasty, testing for arrhythmia, and blood vessel evaluation. The staff includes 24 cardiologists, 20 cardiology fellows, cardiology nurses, therapists, and office staff.
The Kidney Center
The University of Virginia Kidney Center offers a complete range of dialysis options as well as transplant services, the latest diagnostic tests and procedures, and outpatient check-ups all in one convenient area. With a special emphasis on preventive medicine, the Kidney Center helps patients prevent or delay kidney failure and live healthier, more satisfying lives.
The Transplant Center
The Charles O. Strickler Transplant Center was created to coordinate services for transplant patients because care for an individual patient often cuts across departmental boundaries. Service center staff members work closely with physicians, nursing services, pharmacology staff, laboratory services, the blood bank, the organ procurement team, the respiratory care division, and operating room and recovery room services in order to facilitate all aspects of a transplant procedure. The Center coordinates liver, kidney, and pancreas transplants and provides support services for heart and lung transplants.
The Women's Place
The Women's Place provides a full range of services that women need throughout their lifespan: The Birthing Center, Gynecology/Oncology Services, University Physicians for Women, the Midlife Health Center, Infertility and Reproductive Services, High Risk and Low Risk Perinatal Services, and the Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment Center.
Affiliated Hospitals
Each year, medical students rotate regularly from Charlottesville to a group of participating hospitals: Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospitals, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salem, Western State Hospital, and Fairfax Hospital. The affiliated programs provide third-year clinical clerkships in medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery, as well as a broad variety of electives for fourth-year students. Students also have the opportunity to gain experience with primary care providers at outlying sites.
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospitals
With 677 beds, Roanoke Memorial Hospital provides an excellent clinical base for third-year clerkships in internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry. The Community Hospital of Roanoke Valley is a 400-bed facility that provides an excellent clinical teaching environment for third-year medical students in pediatrics and obstetrics-gynecology.
The Veterans Affairs Medical Center
This 750-bed facility has a full-time teaching faculty of 35, with clerkships in medicine, psychiatry, and surgery.
Western State Hospital
Western State Hospital is a state psychiatric institute in Staunton, Virginia staffed by University of Virginia attendings and residents. This facility takes care of both chronic and acute patients from throughout the state.
Fairfax Hospital
Fairfax is approximately 100 miles northeast of Charlottes-ville. The population of Fairfax County is approximately 600,000. The Fairfax Hospital is the largest hospital in Northern Virginia and serves as a tertiary care hospital in an urban community setting. It has over 650 beds and patient care is provided by all specialties. The hospital is located at 3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA 22046.
Teaching Facilities
Jordan Hall
Harvey E. Jordan Hall is a seven-story structure that houses the lecture halls and laboratory facilities for the preclinical phase of the curriculum. The first floor of Jordan Hall contains two lecture halls, each seating 152 students, as well as a smaller seminar room. The second floor houses additional student laboratories designed for both individual exercises in histology and pathology as well as group experiments and teaching sessions in microbiology. The rest of the second floor contains basic science research laboratories. Third through seventh floors of Jordan Hall are occupied by the academic offices and research laboratories of the departments of Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Microbiology. The newest addition to Jordan Hall includes a conference center, consisting of a 170-seat main auditorium and six breakout rooms.
Davis Learning Center
The School of Medicine Learning Center contains four large conference rooms, two classrooms, four tutorial rooms, and administrative offices. Within the area is a 1000 volume library containing textbooks and additional references, a copying machine, and five microcomputers.
The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
The Library primarily serves the faculty, students, and staff of the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, which includes the Schools of Medicine and Nursing and the hospitals. The Library's resources are also available to the University community and to health practitioners throughout Virginia. The Library is a modern, fully automated facility with small group meeting rooms, audiovisual viewing rooms, typing rooms, microcomputers, and photocopying machines. An extensive renovation and expansion project will be completed by the year 2000. Free self-service searching of journal and full-text databases, such as MEDLINE, is available. All basic services of the Library are computerized for in-house and remote access.
The Library maintains well developed collections of books, journals, and audiovisuals in medicine, nursing, and related areas. The Library offers numerous databases related to health care for easy citation retrieval. A reserve collection contains basic medical and nursing texts as well as items placed on temporary reserve by course instructors. The reference collection includes directories, dictionaries, indexes, statistical sources and other research tools.
The Learning Resource Center, on the first floor of the Library, maintains a substantial collection of video cassettes and computer software. A variety of players, projectors, recorders, monitors, and microcomputers is available. Classes in the basic operation of microcomputer equipment and software are also provided. A state of the art computer classroom is available for use in computer based instruction.
The Library is open more than 100 hours per week.
NIH Research Centers in the School of Medicine
* General Clinical Research Center
* Clinical Cancer Center
* Specialized Center for Research in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
* Center for Structural and Function Development of the Kidney
* Center for Research in Reproduction
* Center for Asthma and Allergic Diseases
* Center for Cellular Remodeling in the Urogenital Tract
* Center for Basic Mechanisms of Growth and Development
* Center for Public Health Genomics (link to web site)
* Center for Tropical Infectious Diseases
* Center for Surveillance and Prevention of Blood Contacts
* Child Health Research Center
* Vascular Smooth Muscle Program Project
* Structural Biology of Cardiovascular Ion Transport Program Project
* Oncogenes and Mitogens: Intracellar Mechanisms Program Project.
Core Values of the University of Virginia Health System
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