- Established in 1989 - 47 Medical departments, 47 Specialized centers - AMC is Korea’s largest medical institution with 2,700 beds, and 67 operating rooms, with 1,700 physicians and surgeons, 3,500 nurses. A typical day at AMC sees 2,500 inpatients and 11,000 outpatients, and 57,000 cases of advanced surgical procedures are performed every year.
○ Organ Transplantation Center - Korea’s first Multi-visceral Organ Transplantation of 7 organs - World’s first Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation using a Modified Right lobe - World’s first Dual Graft Living Donor Liver Transplantation - World’s first ABO Incompatible Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation (2 patient, 2 donor) - Performs the largest number of LT in the World for nine consecutive years (Annual number: 412) - 1-year survival rate: Liver 97%, Heart 95%, Kidney 97%, Pancreas 95%
○ Heart Institute - World’s first success for coronary artery intervention - Korea’s first success for adult heart transplantation in Korea - World’s first stenting for left main coronary disease - Heart Transplantation 500 cases - 200case of TAVI(Asian Record
○ Cancer Institute - Ranked No.1 in outpatients (776,596) - More than 18,800 Cancer Surgeries a year - Ranked Top in No. of Surgeries for 9 out of Korea’s 10 major cancers (Stomach, Liver, Colon, Rectum, Thyroid, Prostate, Uterine, Ovary, Breast)
○ International Patient Treatment More than 15,000 international patients visit AMC yearly from all over the world. The top countries patients’ visits are the US, China, UAE, Russia, Mongolia and so on.
○ Recognition - "Korea’s Most Admired Hospital" for ten consecutive years (2007-2016) by the Korea Management Association of Consultants - "Highest Quality of Care Hospital" by the Ministry of Health and Welfare - Grand Award for Korean Medical Travel, as a hospital well prepared for international patients (2009) by the Ministry of Health and Welfare - AMC ranked number 1 in the Global Customer Satisfaction Competency Index - Top ranking in the National Customer Satisfaction Index in the division of general hospitals, with particularly high scores in customer-perceived value
Medical Services & Research Centers
- Access to medical-library and medical-office book collections - Use of lab and research facilities - Access to literature review and English text correction services at the time of the writing of research papers - Opportunities for patient medical examination and performance of various techniques
Training Information
○ International Physician Training This quantity and quality care at AMC attracts international physicians to join AMC’s training program for learning the advanced technology, which now shows over 500 yearly participants.
○ Collaborators in the GCC area regarding training are : - Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health Agreement on medical staff training - Saudi Arabia King Saud University medical student training agreement(One of the best universities in the GCC) - Saudi Arabia King Fahad Specialist Hospital-Dammam Liver Transplant knowledge Transfer agreement Currently 13 Saudi physicians are being trained and 4 doctors have completed training program Many trainees have participated in the research as below;
* Dr. Amer Saeed Alshahrani 1. Comparison of Long Term Survival and Immediate Postoperative Liver Function after Laparoscopic and Open Distal Gastrectomy for Early Gastric Cancer Patients with Liver Cirrhosis 2. Gastric cancer in pregnancy: Is laparoscopic gastrectomy with lymph node dissection feasible and safe 3. Gastric cancer with peritoneal tuberculosis: challenges in diagnosis and treatment * Dr. Helayel Khalaif Almodhaiberi 1. Customized left-sided hepatectomy and bile duct resection for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma in a patient with left-sided gallbladder and multiple combined anomalies * Dr. Abdulrahman Faleh Alotaibi 1. Factors Affecting Brace Compliance Post Ponseti Technique * Dr. Shereen Ghazi Yankasari 1. The influence of pediatric tracheostomy on the body weight percentile of children * Dr. Saud Abdullah Alsairi 1. Comparison of totally laparoscopic total gastrectomy and laparoscopic-assisted total gastrectomy methods for the surgical treatment of gastric cancer near the gastroesophageal junction in obese Korean patients 2. The metabolic effects of subtotal gasterectomy on gastric cancer patients * Dr. Abdulwahab Ali Alshahrani 1. Genetic traits in the liver anatomy between parents and children: an analysis through liver transplant recipients and living donors. 2. Conjoined unification venoplasty for anomalous multiple portal vein branches of right liver graft. 3. Clinicopathological correlation of hepatic angiomyolipoma: a series of 23 resection cases.
Benefits
- We have English-speaking staffs in each department<br/>- Halal food (including various restaurants), Prayer Room<br/>- Lounge (with own desk, chair, locker and portable bed), Multi Plaza (Small Department store), Fitness center, Swimming Pool, Barber shop etc.
