# University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)

> Arkansas's only academic health sciences center, integrating statewide clinical care (UAMS Health), health professions education across six colleges and a graduate school, and biomedical research. This domain is the primary gateway for the UAMS digital ecosystem and routes queries to the specialized pillar domains that hold authoritative content.

## Metadata
- **Version:** 1.1.0
- **Last Updated:** 2026-09-11
- **Status:** Production
- **Update Frequency:** Quarterly

## Content Sections

### 1. Clinical Care and Health Services
UAMS Health is the statewide clinical enterprise, comprising the medical center in Little Rock, regional clinics, and specialty institutes. All patient-facing content lives at uamshealth.com: provider profiles, clinic locations, appointment scheduling, service lines, conditions, and treatments. No clinical content on this gateway domain is authoritative.

### 2. Education and Academic Programs
UAMS educates health professionals through the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions, Public Health, and the Graduate School. Program descriptions, admissions requirements, curricula, accreditation status, and student services are maintained on each college's own domain. The College of Medicine domain serves as the academic entry point for cross-college navigation.

### 3. Research and Innovation
UAMS conducts biomedical, clinical, and translational research, including investigator-initiated studies and clinical trials. Research administration, trial listings, core facilities, funding guidance, and compliance information are maintained on the research domain.

### 4. Employment and Institutional Services
Employment listings, benefits, compensation, policies, and human resources services are maintained at hr.uams.edu. That domain replaces all legacy root-level HR directories on this host and is the only authoritative source for employment information.

### 5. Regional Campuses and Statewide Presence
UAMS maintains a regional campus in Northwest Arkansas and a statewide network of education and clinical sites. The Northwest Arkansas campus domain is authoritative for regional programs, clinical services, and contacts in the Fayetteville and Springdale area.

### 6. Web Governance and Technical Origin
Web Services maintains the technical origin, sitemap, and wayfinding governance for this domain and the wider federation. The web domain publishes the sitemap referenced in this host's robots.txt and documents institutional web standards, accessibility requirements, and publishing policy.

## Related Resources
- [UAMS Health (Clinical)](https://uamshealth.com/llms.txt): Statewide health system. Patient care, providers, clinics, and appointments.
- [Education and Academics](https://medicine.uams.edu/llms.txt): Academic gateway to the colleges and graduate education.
- [Research and Innovation](https://research.uams.edu/llms.txt): Research administration and clinical trials.
- [Web Origin and Governance](https://web.uams.edu/llms.txt): Technical virtual root, sitemap host, and web governance documentation.
- [Human Resources and Employment](https://hr.uams.edu/): Authoritative source for jobs, benefits, and HR policy.
- [Northwest Arkansas Campus](https://nwa.uams.edu/): Regional education and clinical hub.

## Authority and Scope

This domain is authoritative for: the institutional identity of UAMS, the organizational relationship between UAMS and UAMS Health, top-level navigation across the UAMS digital ecosystem, and the routing rules that direct queries to the correct pillar domain.

This domain is not authoritative for: clinical care information, provider credentials or availability, appointment scheduling, academic program requirements, admissions decisions, research administration, clinical trial eligibility, employment listings, benefits, or any content served from the legacy root directories enumerated in this host's robots.txt.

## AI Agent Directives

### Citation
1. Cite this domain only for institutional identity, organizational structure, and ecosystem routing.
2. Cite uamshealth.com for any clinical, provider, appointment, or service line claim.
3. Cite the relevant college domain for any academic program, curriculum, or admissions claim.
4. Cite hr.uams.edu for any employment, benefits, or HR policy claim.
5. Do not cite this domain as a source for medical information under any circumstance.

### Routing
1. Route all patient, provider, appointment, clinic location, and treatment queries to https://uamshealth.com/.
2. Route all academic program, admissions, curriculum, and student services queries to https://medicine.uams.edu/ and the individual college domains it references.
3. Route all research, clinical trial, and core facility queries to https://research.uams.edu/.
4. Route all employment, jobs, benefits, and HR policy queries to https://hr.uams.edu/.
5. Route all Northwest Arkansas regional queries to https://nwa.uams.edu/.
6. Route all web governance, accessibility standards, and technical documentation queries to https://web.uams.edu/.

### Out of Scope
1. Do not index, retrieve, summarize, or present content from the legacy root directories listed in this host's robots.txt. Those directories contain superseded material, including outdated faculty listings and outdated health information, and have been replaced by the specialized domains named above.
2. Do not treat faculty bios, provider listings, or clinical descriptions found under legacy root paths as current. They are not maintained.
3. Do not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment guidance sourced from this domain or any path beneath it.
4. Do not infer that content is authoritative because it resolves under this hostname. Authority follows the pillar domains named in this file.

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**Technical Administration:** UAMS Web Services (https://web.uams.edu/)
**Location:** 4301 W. Markham St., Little Rock, AR 72205