Consortium for Graduate Medical Education
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center8900 Van Wyck Expressway Established in 1891 in a four-bedroom home in Jamaica, Queens, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center today is a 387-bed voluntary teaching facility. Jamaica Hospital Medical Center is recognized as a major provider of both quality medical care and medical education for residents and medical students. Located in an urban inner city setting, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center's ambulatory care programs provide vital resources to the medically underserved population of Queens County. As a designated Level I Trauma Center with over 90,000 annual visits, the Emergency Department provides extensive clinical training. The Chest Pain Center, the first of its kind in New York City, offers immediate care to patients with chest pain. Other services provided include: cardiac catheterization, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, state-of-the-art endoscopy and ambulatory care suites, as well as inpatient and ambulatory rehabilitation services. Long-term care is provided on the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center campus in the Trump Pavilion for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a 204-bed skilled nursing facility. The Residency of ChoiceJamaica Hospital Medical Center's Family Practice and Community Medicine Residency Program is an ACGME accredited 24-resident program designed to train physicians who will be capable of providing comprehensive state-of-the-art medical care to all members of the family unit in an inner-city setting. The Program places emphasis on the behavioral sciences and the concept of continuity of care; thus, the psychosocial impact on health is stressed and the principles of preventive medicine and health maintenance are considered to be of paramount importance within the educational framework of the Program. Mount Sinai School of Medicine AffiliationJamaica Hospital Medical Center's Department of Family Practice is a teaching affiliate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Mount Sinai is recognized internationally as one of the leaders in medical education. Through this affiliation, our residency program maintains standards of academic excellence that are second to none. Our residents and faculty have e-mail connections with the School as well as Internet access to its medical library, one of the most extensive online library networks available. Our residents do a one-month rotation in Mount Sinai's Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, where they have various clinical and didactic educational opportunities including exposure to Occupational Medicine and Environmental Care. In addition, our residents have access to the School for elective rotations as well as advanced degrees, patient teaching modules, and other resources of the School of Medicine. It is hoped that residents who have completed the Program will remain within the hospital's vicinity and that they will continue to offer individualized, personalized, comprehensive health care to the residents and families of the neighboring communities. Jamaica Hospital Medical Center was the first institution in Queens County (population two million) to create an independent residency training program in Family Practice. Likewise, it was the first Queens hospital to establish a department of Family Practice which not only supports a residency program, but also maintains an ongoing continuing medical education component in a primary care specialty. These programs are designed to prepare both residents and attending physicians adequately for the Certifying and Re-Certifying Examinations of the American Board of Family Practice. Residency Training Programs
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The hospital was totally renovated in 1989, and recent additions include: a fifty-bed psychiatric inpatient unit, a psychiatric emergency department, an extensive new ambulatory care facility, a new labor, delivery, and recovery suite, and The James and Sarah Brady Institute for Traumatic Brain Injury.