Dr. Brock C. Vickery, MD

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Get to know Hospitalist Dr. Brock C. Vickery, who serves patients in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Specializing in the field of hospital medicine, Dr. Vickery has been a physician for nearly 20 years and has served at UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central for more than a decade. 

UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central in Colorado Springs is an award winning, 413-bed hospital that has been recognized nationally for quality, research and outcomes. It provides a comprehensive list of inpatient and outpatient services at its Central and North facilities, as well as at multiple outpatient locations. It has been recognized as a Level I Trauma Center and is the only Comprehensive Stroke Center in southern Colorado.

Excelling academically, Dr. Vickery graduated with his medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1989. He then went on to complete his residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington in 1992.

Thereafter, he attained board certification in internal medicine through the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). The ABIM is a physician-led, non-profit, independent evaluation organization driven by doctors who want to achieve higher standards for better care in a rapidly changing world.

In addition to seeing patients at UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central, Dr. Vickery can be found on staff at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital and University of Colorado Hospital.

As for his academic role, he serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (Anschutz Medical Campus).

Hospital medicine is a medical specialty that exists in some countries as a branch of internal or family medicine, dealing with the care of acutely ill hospitalized patients. Physicians whose primary professional focus is caring for hospitalized patients only while they are in the hospital are called hospitalists.

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