Academic Medical Center

The Academic Medical Center (Dutch: "Academisch Medisch Centrum"), or AMC, is the university hospital affiliated with the Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam).

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.

The AMC has an intensive cooperation with the other university hospital of Amsterdam, the Free University Medical Center (VUMC), which is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit (Free University), Amsterdam's other university.

Tertiary care departments include advanced trauma care, pediatric and neonatal intensive care, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, infectious diseases and other departments.

Special units include:
* Neurosurgery
* Cardiothoracic surgery
* Neonatal and pediatric surgery and intensive care
* Pediatric oncology
* Level I trauma center (secondary function: regional trauma care is centered on the VUMC emergency department)

ee also

* Free University Medical Center
* Universiteit van Amsterdam