Emory University School of Medicine is ranked among the nation’s finest institutions for education, biomedical research, and patient care. The school had 43 applications in 2007 for each of its first-year positions, and its students perform extremely well compared with their peers at other schools. In 2007, for example, the pass rate for first-time takers of part 1 of the National Board Exam was 99%. On graduation, almost half of the school’s students pursue residencies
in primary care.
Student totals for the entering class of 2011 increased by 15% to 133. This increase was made possible by the opening of a new medical school building in 2007, which enabled implementation of a completely revised medical curriculum. The school has a total of 480 medical students and trains more than 1,100 residents and fellows in 80 accredited programs.
The school has 66 MD/PhD students in one of the 40 Medical Scientist Training Programs sponsored by the NIH and 454 postdoctoral fellows. Some of these 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 2007 by U.S. News & World Report. The medical school has 14 MD/MPH and two MD/MBA students. More than 240 medical school 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 health professions programs train
420 students. These include a physician assistant program ranked third in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and a physical therapy doctoral program ranked eighth.
The medical school’s faculty received $301.3 million in sponsored research in 2007, including $36.5 million received by medical faculty at Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Ranked 18th nationally in NIH dollars received, the school is one of the fastest-growing recipients of NIH awards in the country. The school has 2,053 full- and part-time faculty and 995 volunteer faculty.
Physician faculty in Emory’s own hospitals, affiliated teaching
hospitals, and outpatient venues are responsible for more than 3.6 million patient visits annually.
The school has 13,287 alumni (5,221 medical school and 8,280 residency alumni), and one of every four physicians
in Georgia was trained at Emory. In addition to the school’s regular education programs, 7,113 physicians and other health care professionals came to Emory last year to participate in continuing medical education.
In addition to Georgia Tech and other research institutions
throughout the state and nation, the school maintains
strong ties with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta through a joint venture agreement.
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