Our Affiliation Agreements:

The University for Miami Miller School of Medicine (UMMSM), acting on behalf of the Regional Medical Campus at Florida Atlantic University, has affiliations with several Palm Beach County hospitals and clinical facilities to provide undergraduate clinical experiences and/or residency training programs. Affiliations with additional hospitals and community clinical sites will be entered in to for undergraduate and/or graduate medical education as the regional medical campus reaches its full enrollment, fully implements the four year medical curriculum and expands residency training program opportunities in Southeast Florida.

Current Affiliates:

• Boca Raton Community Hospital (BRCH) - will serve as the primary teaching hospital for regional medical campus. BRCH is building a new, $700 million, 530 bed facility on the FAU Boca Raton campus, which is being designed specifically as the safest hospital in America and as a state-of-the-art teaching hospital. The new hospital is scheduled to open in 2011-12. Medical students clinical experiences are already occurring at BRCH and will expand as the four year regional medical campus program is implemented. BRCH will ultimately sponsor residency programs with approximately 125 positions, beginning as early as 2012.
  See: www.brch.com



• JFK Medical Center (JFK) - UMMSM has affiliation agreements for undergraduate medical education clinical experiences and graduate medical education with JFK Medical Center a 424 bed, acute medical surgical hospital in Atlantis, Florida. UMMSM has applied to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for approval to begin its first residency program in Palm Beach County, which will be a general internal medicine residency program at JFK Medical Center and the West Palm Beach Veterans Administration Medical Center (WPBVAMC). Pending ACGME approval, the JFK-West Palm Beach V.A. internal medicine residency program will begin in 2008. A general surgery residency program , as well as surgery and medicine subspecialty residency and fellowship programs are being planned at JFK Medical Center and the West Palm Beach V.A. Medical Center, to begin as early as 2009- 2012. See: www.jfkmc.com



• The West Palm Beach Veterans Administration Medical Center (WPBVAMC) - is an eleven year old facility with 184 beds that provides care for approximately 70,000 veterans annually. In partnership with JFK Medical Center, the West Palm Beach V.A. will serve as the site of a general internal medicine residency program with a total of 66 positions, which is scheduled to accept its first residents as early as 2008, pending approval by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
  See: www.visn8.med.va.gov/WestPalm/

  




• Bethesda Memorial Hospital - a 390 bed facility in Boynton Beach, Florida, is currently the site of undergraduate medical education clinical experiences. Bethesda Memorial Hospital is also being evaluated as a candidate for graduate medical education programs. See: www.bethesdaweb.com

  




• Caridad Clinic - The mission of the Caridad Clinic in Boynton Beach, is to upgrade the health, education and living standards for the children and families of migrant workers, laborers and the underserved living in and near Palm Beach County. The majority of the patients treated at the Caridad Clinic are indigent and uninsured individuals who are either Hispanic or Haitian. Each semester, regional medical campus students have an opportunity to serve as volunteers at the Caridad Clinic, working under the supervision of regional medical campus clinical faculty. Clinical experiences at Caridid Clinic provide students with an invaluable exposure to a group of patients that they are less likely to encounter during their other clinical experiences in private physician's offices or in the inpatient setting in some Palm Beach County hospitals. See : www.caridad.org