Academic Affairs
Academic affairs at LCMC Health
Our mission
LCMC Health Academic Affairs drives the growth of our academic enterprise across all nine system hospitals, coordinating, standardizing, and advancing the Clinical Learning Environment (CLE) that shapes tomorrow’s healthcare workforce. At LCMC Health, education, research, and patient care come together to create an environment where learners thrive and patients receive exceptional care.
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Why choose an Academic Medical Center?
Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) like LCMC Health are driven by more than delivering exceptional care to every patient who walks through their doors—they’re engines of innovation, education, and discovery.
An AMC delivers a long list of advantages! Here are just a few highlights:
- Team based care that includes physicians, nurses, researchers, educators, and learners all working together to provide the highest quality, most up-to-date medical care
- Latest technology and recent breakthroughs in medicine
- Access to clinical trials and research protocols
- Patients treated at a teaching hospital have up to a 20% higher odds of survival
- Advanced expertise and availability of specialty and subspecialty physicians
- Destination center services (like Trauma and Burn Care, Palliative Medicine, and Neurointerventional Stroke Services)
Our training
Examples of some of the learners we are proud to train include:
- Medical Residents & Fellows
- Medical Students
- Dental Residents & Students
- Nursing Students
- Allied Health Students
- Pharmacy Residents and Students
- Podiatry Residents
- Graduate students
We keep our residents and students closely connected to every LCMC Health hospital and immersed in our culture, values, and mission. Our goal is to empower them with the support and resources they need to not just succeed, but to thrive.
Contact us: LCMCAcademicAffairs@lcmchealth.org.
About LCMC Health academics
LCMC Health trains over 6,650 future healthcare providers every year and holds academic affiliations with more than 100 different institutions.
LCMC Health proudly sponsors several key academic programs
- ACGME accredited Family Medicine Residency Program at East Jefferson General Hospital
- CPME accredited Podiatry Residency Program at East Jefferson General Hospital
- ASHSP accredited Pharmacy Residency Programs at East Jefferson General Hospital, University Medical Center, Touro and Manning Family Children's.
- CAAHEP accredited Specialist in Blood Bank Program at University Medical Center
