Parkland Memorial Hospital

Parkland is the major adult teaching facility at UT Southwestern.  A comprehensive and state-of-the facility, Parkland has been serving Dallas and its surrounding region for more than 100 years.  Frequently ranked among the best 25 hospitals in the nation, Parkland is licensed for 997 beds and is one the area's top employers, with over 6,000 employees.

Parkland treats over 42,000 inpatients and 800,000 outpatients (ED and clinics), and delivers 13,000 babies annually.  Parkland is the major 911 receiving hospital, a major tertiary referral center, and an ACS verified level one trauma center (7,000 admits/year).  It also has the region's only ABA certified Burn Center (one of the largest and busiest in the world), and is home to the North Texas Poison Center (80,000 calls/year), and to Biotel, the region's EMS on-line medical control center (200,000 transports/year).
 

Parkland's state-of-the-art emergency department, encompasses more than 37,000 square feet, and has been recently renovated to create a pleasant, comfortable working environment.  With over 90,000 annual visits of a high acuity level (minor complaints are triaged to clinics), the resident's clinical practice and learning experience is unparalleled.

Parkland's ED has 79 bed spaces, including 24 fully monitored critical care beds.  Unique features include a six-person asthma treatment room with a full-time respiratory therapist, a two-person eye/ENT room with slit lamp, a four-person conscious sedation orthopedic room equipped with C-arm fluoroscopy, and eight negative pressure ventilation (isolation) rooms.  Two of the resuscitation rooms have video monitoring for teaching purposes.

Parkland's ED is the major receiving facility for EMS.  Emergency medicine faculty and residents provide medical direction and 24-hour medical coordination for Dallas EMS and most of its suburbs, and medical coordination for disaster management. Parkland houses the North Texas Poison Center under the medical direction of emergency medicine faculty.  Critically injured trauma patients brought to Parkland's trauma center are resuscitated in the ED by the Trauma Team, where the residents of the division of emergency medicine play a major role.

Children's Medical Center Dallas

Children's is the major pediatric teaching facility in the system.  It is a private 322-bed hospital with roots dating back 80 years.  Children's provides advanced medical care for children from birth through age 18, and is ranked one of the nation's best pediatric hospitals. Children's Medical Center is the pediatric tertiary care referral center, and the area's pediatric trauma receiving hospital. The state-of-the-art facility comprises a dynamic emergency center, a 26-bed pediatric ICU, and maintains nearly 50 specialty clinics and programs.  The atmosphere is child-friendly throughout, from the colorful furniture and interiors, to the child-like shapes trimming the walls, to the red wagons used for patient transport.

The emergency department at Children's Medical Center Dallas is the highest volume pediatric emergency treatment facility in the nation, triaging over 90,000 patients annually. The higher acuity patients are triaged to the ERC (Emergency Referral Center), providing the EM resident with a high-volume, focused experience in the management of critically ill and injured children. A pediatric emergency medicine fellowship is also offered. Children's ED is contiguous with Parkland's ED, and maintains a fully-monitored observation area. Pediatric critical trauma patients are resuscitated in the ED.

Resident responsibility at both Parkland and Children's is progressive, with senior emergency medicine residents directing patient management, critical resuscitation, and EMS medical control.  Each month of emergency medicine in the second and third years includes shifts in both Parkland and Children’s emergency departments, providing the resident a more contiguous learning experience. Highly qualified emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine faculty provide on-site supervision 24-hours a day.