The Residency Program has rotations in the following University of Miami hospitals and clinics.
Jackson Memorial Hospital - (JMH)
Jackson is a 1567-bed tertiary care hospital. It is the major teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The hospital has a wide referral base, including south and central Florida and Central and South America, providing exceptional selection of teaching cases. It is a Level 1 trauma center, Comprehensive Stroke Center, it is home to a new ICU tower including our 27 bed NSICU, and it is attached to the nationally recognized Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center. Jackson’s Holtz Children’s Hospital provides our child neurology experience. Jackson’s Ambulatory Care Clinic (the ACC) services over 4500 adult neurology outpatient visits per year and serves as our primary resident continuity clinic. This is also the site of our JMH stroke, child neurology, intractable epilepsy, and procedure clinics.
The Veterans Affairs Center (VAMC)
The Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (the VA) is located across the street from Jackson and is an 800-bed hospital facility. There, neurology offers a consult service,2 bed EMU, and sleep center. The VA is a primary teaching site for EEG reading. The neurology outpatient clinic at the VA handles about 4000 patients per year and serves as a resident continuity clinic.
UHealth Tower (UHT)
The University of Miami purchased Cedars Medical Center in late 2007. The 560-bed facility was renamed UHealth Tower (UHT) and became the region’s first university-owned, multi-specialty, acute care hospital and the flagship facility of UHealth – University of Miami Health System.
At the UHealth Tower, neurology residents take care of all Neurology consults, the inpatient services (including headache and neuro-oncology), stroke service, DBS, Brain Tumor, NSICU, as well as 6 bed EMU. UHT is affiliated with the NCI certified Sylvestor Cancer Center and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.
Desai Sethi Medical Center - (DSMC)
The University of Miami has extensive outpatient facilities with over 6000 adult neurology outpatient visits per year. The Desai Sethi Medical Center – DSMC is also located on campus and the 6th floor houses the outpatient Neurology clinic for most UM Neurology faculty. There are 22 exam rooms, a neurodiagnostic suite for nerve conduction studies, electromyography, transcranial doppler, ultrasound and electroencephalograms. There is also a neuropsychology suite and the infusion center where patients receive IV infusions for a variety of illnesses.
Don Soffer Clinical Research Center - (CRC)
The CRC is a state-of-the-art facility that was built in the early 2000s with green construction. The 13th floor houses all the faculty administrative offices as well as the administrative staff, research staff and coordinators.
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute– (BPEI)
Again, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute has been ranked the nation’s best in ophthalmology by U.S. News & World Report. Bascom Palmer has received the No. 1 ranking a total of (20+) times and has been in the top two since the annual rankings began over 25 years ago.
Residents rotate here with the neuro-ophthalmologists during their elective time. Bascom sends patients to UHT for neurology evaluation. Some residents have gone on to fellowship at Bascom Palmer in Neuro-ophthalmology and remain on faculty at UM.