Hospitals
The Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston is dedicated to improving the health and welfare of all children, adolescents and adults.
LBJ General Hospital
The Lyndon Baines Johnson General Hospital (LBJGH), is a full-service general hospital which opened in mid 1989. The University of Texas took over its professional staffing in July 1990. It is owned and operated by the Harris County Hospital District to handle patient care for the northern half of the county, which has over 300,000 residents registered for services. The LBJGH is located on the 610 Loop, twelve miles north-northeast of the medical school. This teaching hospital allows expansion of the school's educational, research and clinical programs. Its volume of public patients with severe disease provides experiences complementary to those in the Department's other clinical facilities. .
The hospital has 430,800 square feet on four floors, with 306 beds, a joint medical-surgical intensive care unit, six operating rooms, laboratories, a heart station for non-invasive cardiac tests, and a suite for gastroenterology and pulmonary procedures. State of the art technology and equipment are available for monitoring patients and performing procedures. Most patient rooms have four beds, and the remaining rooms have one bed for isolation. There are 16 intensive care unit (ICU) beds and 16 monitored intermediate care beds.
There are four general internal medicine services, each on call every fourth day. Each team of two residents, two to three interns, and several students follows from 18-25 patients. There are also ICU and cardiology services. Full-time Medicine faculty make teaching rounds daily. All faculty in the department attend at LBJGH. The Medicine Clinic on the first floor sees hospital follow-ups and internal medicine consultations. All subspecialties have weekly clinics. Consultations are active at LBJGH. Medicine house staff rotate in the emergency room as well.
Morning report and bedside teaching are conducted five days a week by Dr. Herbert Fred, Professor of Medicine who was formerly in charge of the medicine service at Ben Taub General Hospital at Baylor College of Medicine. There are daily noon conferences on site. Two chief residents are on site, staffing two medicine teams and performing some staffing duties in the emergency center.
Dr. Herbert Fred is the Clinical Chief of Medicine at the LBJGH. The Administrative Chief of Medicine is Dr. Kevin Finkel, an Associate Professor in the Division of Renal Disease & Hypertension. Dr. Finkel is also an Associate Program Director.
