Emory University School of Medicine
Thomas Lawley, MD, Dean
Emory University School of Medicine is ranked among the nation’s finest institutions for education, biomedical research, and patient care, with 2,233 full- and part-time faculty and 999 volunteer faculty.
The school had 42 applications in 2009 for each of its first-year positions, and its students perform extremely well compared with their peers at other schools. In 2009 for example, the pass rate for first-time takers of part 1 of the National Board Exam was 98%. On graduation, almost half of the school’s students pursue residencies in primary care.
The school has 517 students and trains 1,117 residents and fellows in 85 accredited programs. The school has 73 MD/PhD students in one of the 40 Medical Scientist Training Programs sponsored by the NIH and trains 531 postdoctoral fellows. Some of the MD/PhD students are in a joint program with Georgia Institute of Technology, with which the medical school shares a biomedical engineering department ranked second in the country in 2009 by U.S. News & World Report. The medical school has 14 MD/MPH, two MD/MBA, and three MD/MSCR (master’s in clinical research) students. More than 245 medical faculty also train predoctoral bioscience researchers in one or more of the eight programs of the university’s Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
Faculty in five allied health programs train 447 students. These include a physician assistant program ranked third in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and a physical therapy program ranked 11th.
Medical school faculty received $383.5 million in sponsored research in fiscal year 2009, including funds received by medical faculty at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta VA Medical Center, Winship Cancer Institute, and Emory’s Center for Comprehensive Informatics. Ranked 15th nationally in NIH dollars received, the school is one of the fastest-growing recipients of NIH awards in the country.
Physician faculty in Emory’s own hospitals, affiliate teaching hospitals, and outpatient venues are responsible for 3.8 million patient services annually.
The school has 13,980 alumni (5,345 medical school and 8,635 residency and fellowship alumni). One of every four physicians in Georgia was trained at Emory.
In addition to the school’s regular education programs, 8,319 physicians and other health care professionals came to Emory last year to participate in continuing medical education.
