The University of Kansas Hospital is the major educational institution for the University of Kansas School of Medicine. The hospital is a 475-bed tertiary care medical center with a full complement of supporting clinical departments and ancillary services. It is a Level I Trauma Center and is home to the only regional burn center. In 1999 it received JCAHO Accreditation with Commendation. Both daily patient census and market share have increased steadily in the past several years. In 2003, the hospital had over 18,000 inpatient admissions and almost 250,000 outpatient visits. To meet the demands of increasing patient numbers, the hospital built and opened a sixth floor in 2003 which houses a state of the art medical intensive care unit and an additional 22-bed telemetry unit. The remainder of the floor will be able to accommodate more medical/surgical beds as the need arises.
As a participant in the National Residency Match Program (NRMP), Graduate Medical Education training programs are offered in all Clinical Departments at the Medical Center. Each year more than 400 physicians are in graduate training with over 100 in the Department of Medicine.
Clinical experience at KU Med is the cornerstone of our residency training program because of its opportunities for residents to learn under the mentorship of both clinical investigators and medical educators, while caring for a patient population which includes tertiary care referrals from physicians throughout the region, as well as the local, culturally diverse primary care population.
The Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center is a large tertiary care hospital located approximately six miles east of KUMED in Kansas City, Missouri. The hospital provides state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment facilities as well as modern Medical, Coronary, and Surgical intensive care units. Staff physicians and consultants of the Department of Medicine at the KCVAMC are University of Kansas faculty members. All core conferences and Grand Rounds are televised from KUMED to KCVAMC.
Our educational affiliation with the Kansas City VA Hospital is designed specifically to expose residents to a practice setting with increased autonomy, yet adequate faculty supervision, and a patient population with a different spectrum of disease than our university hospital.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Veterans Affairs Medical Center includes a 221-bed general medicine and surgical hospital, a 174-bed nursing home, and a 178-bed domiciliary. It is located an easy driving distance from KUMED in Leavenworth, Kansas. All of the teaching staff are on the faculty of the Department of Medicine. In addition to Internal Medicine residents, housestaff from the Departments of Surgery, Rehabilitation Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Family Medicine rotate at the DDEVAMC.
Our educational rationale for assignment of residents to the Leavenworth VA training site includes exposure to a rural, generalist-dominant setting which is representative of health care provision in many parts of our state. In addition, the long term care facility at Leavenworth provides important exposure to geriatrics.
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