The Emory University School of Medicine is the graduate
medical school of
Emory University and a component of Emory’s
Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center. Before it was established as the Emory School of Medicine in 1915, the school first began as the Atlanta Medical College. Founded in 1854 by a group of physicians led by Dr. John G. Westmoreland, the college began during unfavorable financial conditions along with competition of three other medical schools opening in the state, driving up competition for students. Despite these challenges, the Atlanta Medical College continued operation until August 1861 when classes were suspended due to the Civil War. Several years later, the College merged with the Southern Medical College, leading to the creation of the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1898. The College existed for 14 years before another merger took place, this time due to encouragement from the Council of Medical Education. The Council promised that if the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons merged with the Atlanta School of Medicine, they would receive a Class A rating. After the merger, the American Medical Association began pressuring medical schools to align with universities in order to improve the quality of medical education nationwide. Just two years after the formation of the second version of the Atlanta Medical College, the College combined with Emory University, which was in its initial stages of development and sought to add medical education to its offerings. On June 28, 1915 the Emory School of Medicine was established.
Emory University School of Medicine is located on the university's main campus in the
Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. The medical school offers a full-time Doctor of Medicine degree program, Masters programs in Anesthesiology and Genetic Counseling, degrees in Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant training, joint degree programs with other Emory graduate divisions, graduate medical education, and continuing medical education. Emory University School of Medicine traces its origins back to 1915 when the Atlanta Medical College (founded 1854), the Southern Medical College (1878), and the Atlanta School of Medicine (founded 1905) merged.
With an acceptance rate of 7% in the Doctor of Medicine Program (2018), Emory University School of Medicine is consistently ranked among the top institutions for biomedical education, clinical care, and research in the United States.
Admission and societies
In 2017, the entering class of 143 medical students hailed from 65 different colleges and had an average undergraduate
GPA
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of 3.7 and an average
MCAT
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of 514. In the 2017 entering class, 57% of the students were female, 8% were MD/PhD, 15% were MD/MPH, the average age at matriculation was 23.6 with a range of 21 to 31. Three students (2%) were non-U.S. citizens/permanent residents from
Germany
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,
Jamaica
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, and
Turkey
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. 69% of the class were non-traditional students, meaning that they took at least 1 year out from college prior to matriculation.
Upon matriculation, medical students are divided into four societies through which they participate in small group learning exercises that foster
differential diagnosis abilities, clinical skills, and professional development. The societies are named after four historic physicians who contributed significantly to the practice of medical science during their lifetimes.
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William Harvey
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Society
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Ignaz Semmelweis
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Society
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Joseph Lister Society
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Sir William Osler
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Society
Curriculum
The curriculum features a condensed pre-clinical learning phase in which students cover the basic medical sciences in 1.5 years. Students typically take the
USMLE Step 1
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by February of their second year allowing them to begin their
medical clerkship phase at Emory-affiliated hospitals. The unique design of the curriculum allows for a 5-month Discovery Phase in the third year which encourages students to pursue research in any medically related field including basic science, translational medicine, clinical research, public health, among others. The Emory University School of Medicine offers a variety of dual degree programs including MD-Masters in
Public Health, MD-Masters in
Clinical Research, MD-
Masters in Business Administration, MD-MA in
Bioethics, and
MD-PhD (the PhD can be completed through the Emory University Laney Graduate School,
Rollins School of Public Health, or the
Georgia Institute of Technology).
Training facilities and affiliated institutions
The School of Medicine is located on the main
Emory University campus in the
Druid Hills section of Atlanta
and in Emory-owned and affiliated medical facilities throughout metropolitan Atlanta including
Grady Memorial Hospital
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,
Emory University Hospital,
Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Many of these hospitals are part of
Emory Healthcare. Affiliated research institutions include
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
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and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Rankings
In its 2021 rankings of the best medical schools in the United States, ''
U.S. News & World Report'' placed Emory University School of Medicine at #24 in research and #25 in primary care. ''
Times Higher Education World University Rankings'' placed the School of Medicine at #32 in the world for Clinical/Pre-clinical and Health in its 2019 rankings list.
Notable alumni and faculty
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Samuel Hollingsworth Stout
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(1822–1903), Professor of Surgery from 1866 to 1867
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Arnall Patz
Arnall Patz (June 14, 1920 – March 11, 2010) was an American medical doctor and research professor at Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1950s, Patz discovered that oxygen therapy was the cause of an epidemic of blindness among some 10,000 p ...
(M.D. 1945), Congressional Medal of Freedom recipient; Expert in infant blindness and the use of lasers to treat eye disease
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Ferrol Sams (M.D. 1945), Physician-novelist and inductee of the
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
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James Wesley Turpin (M.D. 1955), Founder, Project Concern International
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Sonny Carter
Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr., Doctor of Medicine, M.D. (August 15, 1947 – April 5, 1991), (Captain (United States O-6), Capt, United States Navy, USN), was an American chemist, physician, professional soccer player, United States Navy, na ...
(M.D. 1973), Physician and
NASA
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astronaut who flew on STS-33
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Alisha Kramer (M.D. 2018), Physician and health activist
References
External links
Emory University School of Medicine Official WebsiteEmory University School of Medicine HistoryDetailed HistoryEmory University School of Medicine Records, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Historical Collections, Emory UniversityAtlanta Medical College Records, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Historical Collections, Emory UniversityAtlanta School of Medicine Records, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Historical Collections, Emory UniversityAtlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons Records, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Historical Collections, Emory UniversitySouthern Medical College Records, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Historical Collections, Emory University
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