Alameda County Medical Center is a nationally recognized teaching facility, committed to maintaining a wide range of educational programs and activities for medical students, interns and residents, medical, nursing and other staff. Education, teaching and training are integral parts of ACMC, from our Mission Statement to our hospital floors and clinics, classrooms and exam rooms. Each is affiliated with the University of California. ACMC s teaching programs draw applicants from all over the country for several reasons.
Residents learn health care in one of the most diverse urban counties in the nation.
Each residency program has an outstanding full-time teaching and research faculty. As a public hospital with a busy trauma center and many clinics, ACMC serves a mix of patients with complex medical problems. The high caliber and tremendous diversity of residents already in our programs attracts outstanding new physicians. East Bay communities benefit from having distinguished residency programs at Highland Hospital. A great many Bay Area physicians with practices in the surrounding areas were trained at Alameda County Medical Center.