San Juan Bautista School of Medicine - Campus

Campus

The School facilities are located on the spacious grounds of the San Juan Bautista Medical Center, previously known as the Dr. Eduardo Garrido Morales Caguas Regional Hospital; between State Highways 52 and 172 in an urban development known as Turabo Gardens. This is a tertiary hospital facility constructed in a 25-acre (100,000 m2) ground. The 52 acres (210,000 m2) hold the Hospital and the School, which houses the administrative offices, the basic sciences dependencies of the medical school; the administrative offices, basic sciences faculty offices, Library/Learning Resources Center, teaching and research laboratories, development clinical skills program infrastructure (e.g. standardized patient), and community-based medicine offices. Also, it provides space for student council organizations as well as meeting room for the students, student lounge, basketball court, recreational areas; and at the medical center, the cafeteria and gymnasium. The experimental surgery and clinical trials facilities are located in an adjacent structure. The SJB library is one of the most complete medical libraries in the Caribbean, and ir offers online resources and a quiet environment for the students to study. The San Juan Bautista Medical Center has approximately 481,527 square feet (44,735 m2) of construction, and has 375 approved beds for hospitalization, with the following clinical departments: Emergency Medicine, Radiology, Ob/Gyn, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Anesthesiology, Primary Medicine and Clinical and Pathology labs. Primary, secondary and tertiary health care services are provided to the Caguas Health Region which encompasses 13 surrounding towns and cities.

The San Juan Bautista Medical Center is the principal clinical training facility for third and fourth year students of San Juan Bautista Medical Center who complete clerkships in each of the following disciplines: Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Psychiatry, Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Radiology, Anesthesiology and Sub specialties. Likewise, many students do clinical electives at this center. In fourth year, students can complete elective cleckships in any hospital of Puerto Rico or the United States. Clinical training at the San Juan Bautista Medical Center brings the student into contact with a patient population drawn from many different socio-economic groups whose health problems represent all categories of medical conditions requiring complex tertiary care to routine and preventive care. It offers possibilities for experience in public practice outreach clinics and rural medicine, through the Community Medicine approach.