Teaching Centers
USF Health Center for Advanced Clinical Learning
The Center for Advanced Clinical Learning is a technologically advanced teaching and training facility that simulates actual patient care, both ambulatory and in-patient, and provides medical students with the hands-on clinical skills experience in a safe, controlled environment. The Center’s 12 patient encounter rooms are similar to the examination rooms medical students will eventually use as physicians. However, these exam rooms are equipped to digitally record voice and video, which enables faculty to access and review the patient-student encounter. In addition, simulators are central to learning at the Center. Medical students can practice specific procedures on full bodied simulators, so they are better prepared to perform them in a real-life situation. Medical students can also learn cardiac examination skills by using a high-fidelity cardiac simulator. By combining the use of live standardized patients and high-tech simulators, the Center helps produce medical students who are not only technically proficient but also have the interpersonal and communication skills necessary to effectively treat patients.
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USF Health Medical Clinic
Opened in April 1976, the USF Medical Clinic is the largest facility in the Health Sciences Center outpatient care network and serves as the location for many of the ambulatory care and other integrated clinical teaching courses. The clinic offers diagnostic and treatment services in 31 different medical specialties, ranging from primary care to super-specialty care in one place. Services offered include pediatrics, family medicine, cardiology, general surgery, dermatology, general internal medicine, neurology allergy/immunology, digestive diseases and nutrition, endocrinology geriatric medicine, hematology, obstetrics, gynecology and radiology.
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South Tampa Center for Advanced Healthcare
This facility, opened in August 2007, combines world-class health care with state-of-the-art building designed to facilitate learning in health teams. Located at Tampa General Hospital campus, USF faculty in the departments of Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Neurology, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine provide clinical services at this new location. Students may participate in such rotations generally during their third and fourth elective year.
View South Tampa Center website
Carol and Frank Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcare
Opened in August 2008, this 196,000 square-foot ambulatory surgery center offers eight operating rooms and five endoscopy suites, located on the medical complex at the USF Tampa campus. Students will train with faculty from Neurosurgery, Neurology and Psychiatry, Digestive Disorders, ENT, Sports Medicine and Women’s Health.
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Tampa General Hospital
TGH is the primary teaching affiliate for the USF College of Medicine. TGH is an 877-bed acute care hospital serving a 12-county region with a population in excess of 4 million, in West Central Florida. TGH is the only Level 1 trauma center on the west coast of Florida. It also serves as the region’s only burn center, adult solid organ transplant center and provides care in the following clinical areas: cardiac; neurosciences; digestive disorders; orthopedics; infectious diseases; high risk and normal obstetrics including fetal surgery; neonatal intensive care; and pediatrics.
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H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Moffitt is Florida's premier cancer center and the only center with an NCI designation. Moffitt has launched outreach programs to encourage cancer prevention for the region, and the center's national research programs explore ways to prevent, cure and treat cancer. USF physicians make up the entire medical staff at the 162-bed center, which was constructed with proceeds from the state cigarette tax. The center has multiple programs in outpatient clinics and centers, plus a 20-bed bone marrow transplant unit.
View Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute website
James A. Haley Veteran's Hospital
The busiest hospital in the VA network with 327 beds, this hospital, which is attached to the medical college by a covered walkway, is considered a "dean's hospital," indicating its role as a teaching center for USF. The hospital opened in 1972, one year after the USF College of Medicine, and is known for its extensive services and a new state-of-the-art Spinal Cord Injury and head trauma unit unparalleled among federal hospitals in the nation. A 240-bed nursing home is adjacent to the hospital. Residency training programs are provided to 140 residents in the most of the medical and surgical specialties, as well as Pathology, Psychiatry and Radiology.
View James A. Haley VA Hospital website
All Children's Hospital
All Children's is a regional center of choice for sick children. Located in St. Petersburg, this 219-bed hospital has 80 intensive care beds, a bone marrow transplant unit, kidney and heart transplantation programs, and the Southeast's largest pediatric cancer program. It is one of the freestanding children’s hospitals in the state of Florida, and the only one on the Florida’s west coast. In January 2007, the Child Magazine named All Children’s one of the top 25 children’s hospitals in North America for the fourth consecutive time.
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Bay Pines Veteran's Hospital
Bay Pines VA Healthcare System provides a full range of services, with state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research. Bay Pines is affiliated with the USF College of Medicine and offers residency training in all major medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. Training is also provided to over 700 medical students, nursing and associated health trainees annually. This 453-bed veteran’s medical center includes an acute medical and surgical hospital; a psychiatry unit with inpatient programs for post-traumatic stress recovery and substance abuse treatment, and a 240-bed Nursing Home Care Unit.
View Bay Pines VA Hospital website
Pepin Heart Hospital & Dr. Kiran C. Patel Research Institute at UCH Community Hospital
The Southeast’s first all-digital cardiovascular specialty facility, the Pepin Heart Hospital & Dr. Karen Patel research Institute in Tampa officially opened its doors in April, 2006. This free-standing heart hospital is filled with the advancements in technology, techniques and revolutionary patient-centered care and is raising expectations when it came to diagnosis, treatment and study of cardiovascular disease. Most importantly, the heart center is filled with a team of physicians, nurses, technicians and staff who have worked together for more than 17 years to create on of the most successful heart programs in Tampa Bay.
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Shriner's Hospital
The Tampa Shriners Hospital, located on the USF campus, is a 60-bed facility that has treated over 36,000 children with orthopaedic problems since opening in 1985. Shriners Hospital serves children with bone and muscle problems such as cerebral palsy, scoliosis and other limb and growth problems free-of-charge. The facility is designed to incorporate advanced treatment programs with the Shriners Hospitals' family-centered approach to care.
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USF Eye Institute and ENT Center
Opened in 1995, this center for research, teaching and patient care is the newest patient care site on the USF campus. The Institute/Center has 24 adult and pediatric examination rooms, and space devoted to the use of highly advanced surgical lasers. A Low Vision Program offers instruction and devices to assist people with very poor vision with daily living. A comprehensive ENT Center with audiology is also located at this site.
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USF Psychiatry Center
This psychiatric facility hosts the Department of Psychiatry and research laboratories, including research aimed at finding the genetic causes of mental illness. The center offers outpatient care for children and adults.
View USF Psychiatry Center website
USF Dialysis Center
The Dialysis Center was designed with patient comfort in mind. Each of the 17 hemodialysis stations is equipped with a television set, and natural light streams through windows that open onto a lush garden. The center is staffed by a social worker, dietitian and registered nurses, and each dialysis station has an artificial kidney machine.
17 Davis Pediatric Ambulatory Care Center
This facility offers general pediatrics care as well as management of such chronic illnesses as asthma, allergies, AIDS, and pre- and post-surgical care. Located on Davis Islands near Tampa General Hospital, the pediatrics center takes a family-centered approached to pediatric care with an emphasis on comfort and convenience. The center is open seven days a week, and provides treatment for minor emergencies.
Genesis Clinic
USF physicians staff this unique center for women and children. Operated by Tampa General Hospital, Genesis conveniently offers a full range of services that includes healthcare for women and children, educational programs and assistance with social services.
University Diagnostic Institute
UDI is an affiliated diagnostic, teaching and research center using Magnetic Resonance Imaging, CAT scanning and nuclear medicine. The Institute was opened in December 1984.
Harbourside Faculty Practice Center
USF faculty in the departments of Surgery, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Neurology, and Internal Medicine provide clinical services at Harbourside Medical Towers. Students may participate in such rotations generally during their fourth elective year.
Outpatient Centers
In addition to the facilities listed above, faculty teach and offer patient care at the following outpatient clinics throughout the region:
