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The
Regional Medical Center (The MED) is UT's primary teaching
hospital. Serving about 150 miles and a population of one million.
The MED exposes residents to a diverse patient population and a
wide variety of illnesses. A Level I Trauma Center, The MED is the
referral center for trauma cases resulting from, among other things,
inner-city violence, rural farm accidents, highway accidents, and
more general trauma. Many of the inner-city patients treated at
The MED present unusual and advanced pathologies. The MED's OB department,
a Level IV obstetric service, has 15 labor, delivery, recovery rooms,
3 operating rooms and a dedicated 4 bed OB Intensive Care Unit used
for over 6000 deliveries a year, many which are high risk. This
is the primary site of the Obstetric Anesthesiology subspecialty
clinical track.
The UT Pain Clinic, is a dedicated pain
management center for chronic pain evaluation. The clinic has recently
added faculty and expanded to two additional hospitals. Selected
patients are seen as part of the Pain Therapy advanced clinical
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The
Veteran's Administration Medical Center, with 836 beds,
6 operating rooms, and a lithotripter unit, provides residents with
exposure to a diverse patient population.
LeBonheur Children's Hospital is a 225-bed,
tertiary-care center and pediatric referral center. It has 9 operating
rooms and a pediatric intensive care unit. Lebonheur, in conjunction
with St. Jude's Research Hospital, has developed programs which
provide residents with a large pediatric cancer patient population.
LeBonheur handles approximately 9,000 cases a year and has emerged
as a regionally recognized liver transplant center. Residents are
exposed to a variety of cases ranging from a simple ear operation
to complex pediatric heart transplant. This is the primary site
of the Pediatric subspecialty clinical track.
Methodist Hospital, also adjacent to the
UT Campus has 837 beds, 28 operating rooms, 9 labor rooms, and 3
delivery rooms.
Methodist Hospital provides cardiovascular and neurosurgical anesthesia
rotations and provides residents with experience in private practice.
This hospital system, and its related satellite hospitals in Memphis,
offer a breadth of experience which prepares residents for different
types of equipment and operating room setup. |
