The major clinical facility within the Medical Center is the University of Alabama Hospital, consisting of approximately 900 beds in three separate structures.  Largest is the Jefferson Tower, a 17-story building containing the Department of Emergency Medicine.  The second component Emergency Department is situated in the Children’s Hospital of Alabama, a 190-bed pediatric specialty hospital.  With a combined volume of more than 123,000 pediatric and adult patients, the resident will have exposure to a broad and deep variety of critical and non-critical adult and pediatric illnesses and injuries.  Through a carefully graduated learning experience, the resident is provided appropriate direction and teaching to many disease states first at a basic level, progressing to increased patient care responsibilities.

With the construction of the new, state-of-the-art emergency department and 850,000-square-foot health-care facility (North Pavilion) which opened in 2004, UAB now has treatment areas and facilities ready for the latest advances in medical technology.

The Department of Emergency Medicine (a separate clinical department within the medical center) is composed of board-certified emergency physicians dedicated to the provision of patient care in the Emergency Department including all instructional, educational and quality assurance activities. Longevity among the faculty is excellent with many of them working at UAB for more than ten years.

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