Parkland Health and Hospital System
U.S. News & World Report: Americas's Best Hopitals 2007-2009

The Dallas County Hospital District, a tax-supported entity of the city and county of Dallas, is responsible for Parkland, a facility nationally recognized as an exemplary county hospital. Our partnership with Parkland provides faculty and house staff with the privilege of providing care for the most vulnerable patients in Dallas County, and provides the backbone of our training program. Parkland Hospital has a capacity of 968 beds, with approximately 200 of these assigned to Internal Medicine. Parkland maintains an occupancy rate consistently over 90 percent. There are very few private patients, and the housestaff enjoy the autonomy necessary to become internists. Most patients are admitted directly from the emergency room and are acutely ill with multiple poorly-controlled comorbidities. Serving as one of our continuity clinic sites, the housestaff have the valuable experience of ultimately becoming the primary care physician for many of these patients.

North Texas Healthcare System (DVAMC)

The Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center is located twenty minutes from Parkland. It operates 216 internal medicine beds, including a 28-bed pulmonary service and an MICU/CCU with 16 beds. The hospital serves the populous North Texas area, including Dallas and Fort Worth, and a number of small VA hospitals and outlying community hospitals who refer patients to the VA Medical Center for the diagnosis and treatment of complicated and unusual problems. In addition to serving as another one of our key continuity clinic sites, the full breadth of conferences seen on our main campus is mirrored at the VA Medical Center.

University Hospital St. Paul

University Hospital St. Paul is a 300-bed private facility located on the main campus of UT Southwestern. UHSP is where our residents enjoy exposure to a private hospital experience. It serves as both a tertiary referral center and a community hospital, which results in a great diversity of pathophysiology. In addition to the bread and butter internal medicine cases, house officers also work closely with faculty to care for patients with lung transplants, adult cystic fibrosis, cardiac transplant and heart failure, liver transplant, and complex hematologic and oncologic cases.