Training Facilities
Valley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingen
Inpatient rotations are performed at Valley Baptist Medical Center, the primary referral hospital for comprehensive and subspecialty care in South Texas. This 450-bed general hospital and Level II Trauma Center for Cameron County provides state-of-the-art medical, surgical, obstetric, and pediatric care. Capabilities include medical, cardiovascular, surgical, neurological, and newborn/pediatric intensive care; air ambulance transportation; cardiac catheterization with interventional and electrophysiology capabilities; active cardiovascular, general, neurosurgical, ophthalmic, orthopedic, plastic, and urological surgery services; pulmonary and gastrointestinal endoscopy; hemodialysis; outpatient multispecialty diabetes care; wound care services; and hospice care. VBMC’s rehabilitation facility provides inpatient and outpatient physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech/language therapy. Radiology services include CT, MRI, sonography, nuclear medicine, interventional radiology, and radiation therapy. For more information, visit the Valley Baptist Medical Center website.
Su Clínica - Lower Rio Grande Valley
The primary ambulatory medicine site is Su Clinica, a JCAHO-accredited community health center providing longitudinal care for primarily indigent residents of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Residents will care for their continuity clinic patients at this facility under the supervision of the general medicine faculty. Su Clinica has convenient on-site radiology, laboratory, and pharmacy services. For more information, visit the Su Clinica website.
School of Medicine Libraries (HCEBL)
Harlingen Clinical Education Building (HCEBL)
This 94,000 square-foot complex will house a medical library offering a full array of medical journals and texts as well as computer access to online medical resources, including electronic texts and journals, MEDLINE, Micromedex, Ovid Online, and PubMed – even available to you from your personal computer at home. The educational building will also contain an auditorium, multiple classrooms, a video teleconferencing center, and office space for medical faculty.
Rio Grande State Outpatient Center
Under the Texas Department of State Health Services, Rio Grande State Center (RGSC) is the only public provider south of San Antonio that offers health care, inpatient mental health services, and long-term services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This unique configuration of services has been provided to the Rio Grande Valley since 1956.
This outpatient medical clinic provides primary care services to adults living in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. RGSC is accredited by The Joint Commission. Also certifying RGSC is Medicare, the American College of Radiology (ACR), and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) with Certificate of provider-performed microscopy procedures. The outpatient clinic services are provided to the following four counties: Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy, and Starr.
The clinic's scope of services includes primary care, women’s health, walk-in triage, diagnostic, social services, and pharmacy services (Prescription Assistance Program and limited formulary). In-patient TB hospitalization for complications is available via contract. For more information, visit the RGSC website.