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Educational FacilitiesClassroom Facilities
Most classes are conducted at Yale University School of Medicine in the Jane Ellen Hope Educational Building and the Sterling Hall of Medicine. Both of these are located in close proximity to the Program office. Some sessions are also held at the West Haven Veterans' Administration Hospital, at Yale-New Haven Hospital and at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Clinical FacilitiesYALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
The Yale-New
Haven Hospital has THE HOSPITAL OF ST. RAPHAEL The 498 -bed Hospital of St. Raphael is located approximately on-half mile from Yale-New Haven Hospital. This community hospital participates in teaching emergency medicine, endocrinology, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and cardiothoracic surgery to Program students. THE V.A. HOSPITAL The Veteran's Administration Hospital in West Haven is approximately three miles from the Yale-New Haven Medical Center. The V.A. has 590 in-hospital beds and 90 nursing home beds. It provides additional facilities for basic science and clinical instruction as well as serving as a rotation site in ambulatory medicine, cardiology, geriatrics, infectious disease, neurology, and psychiatry. BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL Bridgeport Hospital is a licensed 425-bed hospital located approximately 30 minutes from New Haven. Bridgeport Hospital employs a staff of 35 physician assistants. Clinical rotations for PA students are offered in OB-GYN, surgery, emergency medicine, pediatric emergency medicine and elective surgical subspecialties. NORWALK HOSPITAL Norwalk Hospital is located about 40 minutes from New Haven in Norwalk, CT. The hospital is a 388-bed community hospital employing a full-time staff of 20 physician assistants. Norwalk Hospital, in conjunction with Yale University School of Medicine, sponsors PA postgraduate residency programs in surgery and pediatrics and serves as a rotation site for the PA Program in both of these specialty areas. WATERBURY HOSPITAL Waterbury Hospital is located 45 minutes from New Haven in Waterbury, CT. The hospital, with 405 beds, serves a population of 13 towns (approximately 215,000) and admits over 114,000 patients each year. Out-patient departments treated over 62,000 patients in 1990. A clinical rotation for PA students in emergency medicine is available. OTHER CLINICAL FACILITIES Other hospitals, including Danbury Hospital (CT), Lawrence & Memorial Hospital (New London, CT), Bridgeport Hospital (CT), ST. Francis Hosptial, Hartford Hospital (CT), and New Britain Hospital (CT), provide opportunities for students in the areas of emergency medicine, gastroenterology, internal medicine, and surgery. Denver General in Colorado is used for an elective rotation in orthopaedics. A number of small group practices in both the New Haven area and other parts of the country also extend their facilities and medical staffs for the clinical education of Program students. Examples of these sites include a private surgical group in New Haven, CT, a surgery practice in Los Angeles, and family practice sites in Hyannis, MA, North Creek, NY, Evarts, Ky, Woodstock, VT, Lincoln, ME, and Clinton, Oklahoma. Libraries Students of the Yale PA Program have access to outstanding library facilities. The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library serves the Yale-New Haven Medical Center, and Yale University. It also offers its services to the health professions at large and to other libraries. A staff of 28 including 13 professional librarians provide such services as acquiring and organizing the collections, guiding users, searching for information, lending or photocopying materials, and obtaining from other libraries those items that the library does not own. The collections, covering clinical medicine and its specialties, the pre clinical sciences, public health, nursing, dentistry, and related fields, are among the country's largest in a medical center, numbering over 380,000 volumes. More than 90,000 are source materials or supporting works in the historical collections, including journals are received regularly. The collections also include over 50 manuscript volumes of the twelfth through sixteenth centuries, prints and drawings, paintings, art slides, and museum objects. The Historical Library, a section of the Yale Medical Library, was founded by Dr. Harvey Cushing, Dr. John Fulton, and Dr. Arnold C. Klebs, whose personal collections form its core. Many units of the Medical Center also maintain their own specialized libraries. Yale University's main library is the Sterling Memorial Library which, along with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Seeley G. Mudd Library, and the Cross Campus Library, contains more than 5 million volumes. The Kline Science Library has over 342,000 volumes and receives 1,166 current serials, many in the life sciences. Messengers transport books daily among these and other units of the Yale University Library, whose overall facilities and close to 9 million volumes are available to all members of the University. Medical Center
Located southwest of the New Haven Green and Yale's Old Campus, Yale-New Haven Medical Center includes the School of Medicine, School of Nursing, Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH ), Connecticut Mental Health Center and the John B. Pierce Laboratory. The School of Medicine's Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, is the central building. This handsome granite structure with domed roof includes administrative offices, 446-seat Mary S. Harkness Auditorium, Child Study Center and various departments. The Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street, is the school's other major teaching facility. This nine-story building contains classrooms, laboratories and an auditorium. The library and student center are located in College Place, 47 College Street, which also houses the School Development Program of the Child Study Center and the PA Program offices. Last modified: Thursday, 27-Sep-2007 15:27:18 EDT
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