The Residency Program has rotations in the following University of Miami hospitals and clinics.
Jackson Memorial Hospital
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.
The outpatient facilities at Jackson Memorial have clinics, with over 3500 adult neurology outpatient visits per year for the Jackson continuity clinics. There are also stroke and intractable epilepsy clinics that have another 1000 visit per year.
The Veterans Affairs Center (VAMC)
The VA is located across the street from Jackson and is an 800-bed hospital facility. There is a consult service and a 2 bed EMU. The neurology outpatient clinic at the VA Center handles about 4000 patients per year.
UHealth Tower (UHT)
The University of Miami changed the face of modern health care in South Florida when it purchased Cedars Medical Center in late 2007. The 560-bed facility was renamed UHealth Tower 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.
Desai Sethi Medical Center (formerly the Professional Arts Center—PAC)
The University of Miami has extensive outpatient facilities with over 6000 adult neurology outpatient visits per year. The PAC 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.
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
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 (multiple) 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. Some residents have gone on to fellowship at Bascom Palmer in Neuro-ophthalmology.