Many residents have their weekly continuity clinic in this facility. In addition to patient-encounter rooms, it contains a pharmacy, clinical laboratories, an Urgent Visit Center, a Breast Diagnostic Center, and direct access to the Emergency Department. The Internal Medicine Ambulatory Clinics, which have 65,000 visits per year, are designed to simulate a private-practice setting. These clinics provide a robust and important portion of the ambulatory-care training experience. It provides both acute-care and referral services.
Specialized treatment is provided in all subspecialties.
The Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center provides primary and specialty care for a large population of veterans. The general medicine teams consist of a faculty attending, one resident, two interns, and four third-year students. In addition, the VAMC provides ambulatory learning experiences in beautiful, recently constructed general medicine continuity clinics and in a wide range of subspecialty clinics. For some of our residents, VAMC is the site for their continuity clinic experience. Methodist Hospital Methodist Hospital is a 760-bed tertiary care hospital with a long tradition of excellence in patient care, teaching, and research.