Hospital das Clínicas explained

Portuguese: Hospital das Clínicas or Portuguese: Hospital de Clínicas (Clinics Hospital) is a denomination traditionally reserved for teaching hospitals in Brazil. Another common denomination is Portuguese: Hospital Universitário (University Hospital).

There are several hospitals under these names in Brazil:

• Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo, one of the three teaching hospitals of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, the two others being:
  • Hospital Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo, in São Paulo
  • Hospital das Clínicas de Ribeirão Preto, at the Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, in Ribeirão Preto, state of Sâo Paulo
• Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, teaching hospital of the State University of Campinas, in Campinas, state of São Paulo
• Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, state of Rio Grande do Sul

Other institutions are:

• Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná, in Curitiba, state of Paraná
• Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro
• Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro
• Hospital Universitário Polydoro Ernani de São Thiago of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina
• Hospital Universitário Prof. Alberto Antunes of the Federal University of Alagoas, in Maceió, Alagoas
• Hospital das Clínicas of Federal University of Goiás, in Goiânia, Goiás

See also

• Hospital de Clínicas "José de San Martín", in Argentina
• Hospital de Clínicas "Dr. Manuel Quintela", in Uruguay