Med-Peds Residency
Facilities
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa General has served as a primary teaching facility for the University of South Florida College of Medicine since 1971. West central Florida's only level 1 trauma center, TGH also serves as a specialty referral center for the region. The hospital is nearing completion of an expansion that will significantly enlarge the emergency room and increase bed capacity to approximately 1,000. Located on the waterfront in scenic downtown Tampa, TGH provides an ideal environment for resident training.
James A. Haley VA Hospital
Affiliated with U.S.F College of Medicine since its founding, the James A. Haley V.A. hospital has 327 acute care beds and the busiest outpatient clinic system of any VA facility in the country. The patient population provides a wide variety of pathology, including a large number of combat veterans from Operation Iraqi Freedom. Located across the street from the main campus, the hospital has convenient access to all of the College of Medicine's facilities including clinics and main library.
Moffitt Cancer Center
Founded in 1986, the Moffitt Cancer Center has rapidly grown into one of the premier cancer treatment facilities in the country. A National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center that has been named one of the top ten cancer centers in the United States, Moffit is on the cutting edge of cancer research and treatment. Boasting a diverse patient population, world-renowned faculty and superb clinical and research facilities, Moffitt offers a truly unique training environment.
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
Located in downtown St. Petersburg, All Children's Hospital is one of only 48 freestanding children's hospitals in the U.S. and has the highest level of patient acuity in the country. An 11,000 square-foot pediatric emergency center treats children from a wide referral region. Centers of excellence for pediatric cardiac surgery and cardiac transplantation, cystic fibrosis, cleft palate surgery and developmental pediatrics serve children from throughout Florida and the United States. Annual admissions at All Children's Hospital approximate 7,000.
17 Davis Pediatric Clinic
This clinic site is adjacent to TGH and is one of the the primary patient care site for general pediatrics. It provides care for children from birth to age 21. The patient population includes families from all socio-economic classes that live in the Tampa Bay area. The clinic has approximately 13,000 visits conducted by residents per year. The clinic has a large, child-friendly waiting room,17 spacious examination rooms, a laboratory, a treatment room, 3 resident work areas, a break room, 4 education observation rooms, and a separate acute care (sick) patient care area.
Residents have weekly continuity clinics at 17 Davis and rotate here during their ambulatory rotation. In addition to resident clinics, it is one of the main sites for medical and PA student education. It also has many specialty clinics including complex care, adolescent clinic, GI, Hematology-Oncology, Genetics and Pulmonology.