What is a Teaching Hospital?
A teaching hospital is an operating hospital where medical students and recently graduated doctors may complete their training. They are often but not always associated with a university, and sometimes called university hospitals. Because many of the working doctors are supervised trainees, critics suggest that teaching hospitals may be less safe than regular ones, with error due to inexperience being a higher probability. However, teaching hospitals are often extremely well-funded, and may possess better and newer technology and treatments than state or private medical facilities. Practical experience in medical disciplines has long been a proscribed part of the learning process for doctors. As early as the 6th century, early Persian hospitals were used to teach incoming physicians and provide them with actual experience. Today, graduate-level and post-graduate physicians must spend several years training in teaching hospitals before being considered a fully qualified specialist. In t
Teaching Hospitals: At the Forefront of Medicine Teaching hospitals deliver a higher level of care to their patients. Renowned throughout the world for the quality of their programs, America’s teaching hospitals are responsible for training new generations of physicians and are the frontrunners in medical research and technology. With leading community teaching hospitals, the Saint Barnabas Health Care System attracts the state’s top physicians who are committed to academic and medical excellence through their role as members of the hospital’s teaching faculty. Keeping abreast of the latest medical developments and the most advanced technology are two benefits of our role as respected teaching hospitals. What is a Teaching Hospital? Graduate medical education is the final phase of training for physicians who have successfully completed medical school. Teaching hospitals are the heart of graduate medical education. Attending physicians provide supervised training and guidance for the me
You may hear Duke referred to as an “academic medical center” or “teaching hospital.” These terms are used to describe hospitals that have missions beyond just patient care. Most teaching hospitals pursue three related enterprises: • Teaching: Training medical students and resident physicians • Research: Conducting both basic science and clinical investigation • Patient care: Delivering health care services through a network that may include one or more hospitals, satellite clinics, and physician office practices. This results in a health system that encourages the highest standards of quality and provides access to the most up-to-date treatments. It also fosters an environment where many people are always thinking about the patient’s condition, leading to more thorough patient care (although also resulting in patient visits with multiple members of the health care team).
As a teaching hospital, CAMH provides education, training, internships and residencies for students. People training to work in the health care field, including psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and laboratory technologists, come to CAMH for practical experience.
