Academic medical centre

An academic medical centre (AMC), variously also known as academic health science centre, academic health science system, or academic health science partnership, is an educational and healthcare institute formed by the grouping of a health professional school (such as a medical school) with an affiliated teaching hospital or hospital network.

AMCs are intended to ensure that medical research breakthroughs lead to direct clinical benefits for patients.

The organisational structures that comprise an AMCs can take a variety of forms, ranging from simple partnerships to, less frequently, fully integrated organisations with a single management board.

[1] There are AMCs operating in a number of countries including Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Qatar, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton in Hamilton, Ontario
St Mary's Hospital in London , part of Imperial College Healthcare
Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami , the primary teaching hospital of the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami and the largest hospital in the United States with 1,547 beds [ 13 ]
Yale New Haven Hospital campus in New Haven, Connecticut
An aerial view of Texas Medical Center in Houston
Kyushu University Academic Medical Center