Founded in 1854, Emory University School of Medicine is ranked among the nation’s finest institutions for education, biomedical research, and patient care. Emory University School of Medicine has 3,271 full- and part-time faculty and 849 volunteer faculty.
The school had more than 14,751 applications in 2021 for 141 first-year medical student positions. This class is composed of 72% women and 33.8% under-represented minorities, and 83% of the class members are nontraditional (they were out of college for at least a year before entering medical school). In 2020, the pass rate for first-time takers of step 1 of the National Board Exam (testing basic science knowledge and skills) was 96%. The school has 593 medical students and trains 1,368 residents and fellows in 112 accredited programs. The school has 100 MD/PhD students in an NIH-sponsored Medical Scientist Training Program, the only one in Georgia and one of 51 in the country. Some of these students are in a joint program with Georgia Tech, with which the medical school shares a biomedical engineering department ranked #2 in the country by U.S. News & World Report. The medical school also offers a joint MD/MSCR (master’s in clinical research) degree, an MD/MPH degree with public health, and an MD/ MA in bioethics with Laney Graduate School. Dual programs with law (juris master) and business (MBA) also are available. Some 267 medical faculty also train predoctoral bioscience researchers in eight programs in the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences in the graduate school. Faculty in five allied health programs train 485 students. These include physician assistant (PA) and physical therapy (PT) programs, ranked #5 and #8, respectively, in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The allied health programs also include the Anesthesiologist Assistant (AA) program, Genetic Counseling Training program, and undergraduate Medical Imaging program.
Medical school faculty received $607.7 million in sponsored research funding in fiscal year 2021, plus another $97.8 million in funds at other units in health sciences and at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. Ranked #16 nationally in NIH dollars received, the school is best known for its work in infectious disease, brain health, heart disease, cancer, transplantation, orthopaedics, pediatrics, renal disease, ophthalmology, and geriatrics.
Physician faculty in Emory’s own and affiliate teaching hospitals and outpatient venues were responsible for 5.7 million patient service visits in FY 2021. Alumni totals: 6,285 medical school, 12,533 residency/fellowship, 6,919 allied health, including 1,597 PT and 1,981 PA alumni. In addition, 7,348 physicians and 4,337 other health care professionals participated in continuing medical education classes offered by Emory last year.
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The school has 3,271 full- and part-time faculty and 849 volunteer faculty.
The school had more than 14,751 applications in 2021 for 141 first-year medical student positions. This class is composed of 72% women and 33.8% underrepresented minorities, and 83% of the class members were out of college for at least a year before entering medical school.
In 2020, the pass rate for first-time takers of step 1 of the National Board Exam was 96%.
The school has 593 medical students and trains 1,368 residents and fellows in 112 accredited programs. The school has 100 MD/PhD students in an NIH-sponsored Medical Scientist Training Program, the only one in Georgia and one of 51 in the country.
The medical school shares a biomedical engineering department with Georgia Tech that is ranked second in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
The medical school offers a joint MD/MSCR (master’s in clinical research) degree, an MD/MPH degree with public health, and an MD/ MA in bioethics with Laney Graduate School. Dual programs with law (juris master) and business (MBA) also are available.
Some 267 medical faculty also train predoctoral bioscience researchers in eight programs in the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
Faculty in five allied health programs train 485 students. These include physician assistant (PA) and physical therapy (PT) programs, ranked #5 and #8, respectively, in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
Medical school faculty received $607.7 million in sponsored research funding in fiscal year 2021, plus another $97.8 million in funds at other units in health sciences and at the Atlanta VA Medial Center.
Ranked 16th nationally in NIH dollars received, the school is best known for its work in infectious disease, brain health, heart disease, cancer, transplantation, orthopaedics, pediatrics, renal disease, ophthalmology, and geriatrics.
Physician faculty in Emory’s own and affiliate teaching hospitals and outpatient venues were responsible for 5.7 million patient service visits in FY21.
Alumni totals: 6,285 medical school, 12,533 residency/fellowship, 6,919 allied health, including 1,597 PT and 1,981 PA alumni.