Teaching hospitals

Our residents train in two of Richmond’s most outstanding medical centers.

Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

• One of the largest and most active teaching hospitals in the nation
• Central Virginia’s only Level 1 Trauma Center
• Most comprehensive academic medical center in Virginia
• Solucient Corporation’s Top 100 Hospitals in the U.S.
• National Research Corporation Consumer Choice Award, 2001, 2002
• Center of Excellence in Women’s Health (one of 18 in the nation)
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Palliative Care Leadership Center (one of six in the nation)
• Working Mothers Magazine 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers (one of 12 U.S. health systems cited)
• Named the Greater Richmond Area Employer of Choice by the Richmond Human Resources Management Association and the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce, 2006.
• Visit the VCU Medical Center Web site to learn more about its state-of-the-art facilities.
  

McGuire Veterans Affairs Hospital

• First veterans affairs hospital to perform heart transplants
• Department of Veterans Affairs designation as both a Diabetic and Geriatric Center of Excellence
• Parkinson’s disease research, education and clinical center
• Active women’s health center
• On average, residents spend 40 percent of clinical time at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center
• Total beds: 474
• Acute patient care
• Continuous ambulatory care
• Geriatrics and nursing home care
• Intensive care
• For more information about this medical center, visit McGuire Veterans Affairs Hospital.

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