Academic Medical Centre is a health care facility that is often linked to a medical school and/or university complex and closely affiliated with or part of a degree-granting university. There are 120 to 380 academic medical centers in the US, depending on one’s definition.
Mission Teaching of medical students and physicians in training, research, tertiary patient care.
It is one of the largest and leading hospitals of The Netherlands, located in the Bijlmer neighborhood in the most south-eastern part of the city. AMC consistently ranks among the top 50 medical schools in the world.
The AMC has an intensive cooperation with the other university hospital of Amsterdam, the VU University Medical Center (VUmc), which is affiliated with the VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam's other university.
Tertiary care departments include advanced trauma care, pediatric and neonatal intensive care, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, infectious diseases and other departments.
