Emory University School of Medicine

Description

Emory University School of Medicine has 2,328 full- and part-time faculty and 833 volunteer faculty. The school had more than 6,600 applications in 2012 for 138 first-year medical student positions. This racially diverse class has an even mix of men and women, and more than half of its members are nontraditional, meaning that they were out of college for at least a year before entering medical school. In 2012, the pass rate for first-time takers of steps 1 and 2 of the National Board Exam (testing basic science and clinical knowledge and skills) was 99% and 100%, respectively. The school has 564 students and trains 1,188 residents and fellows in 94 accredited programs. The school has 77 MD/PhD students in one of the 40 Medical Scientist Training Programs sponsored by the NIH. 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 by U.S. News & World Report. The medical school has nine MD/MPH and five MD/MSCR (master's in clinical research) students. Some 246 medical faculty also train predoctoral bioscience researchers in one or more of the nine programs of the graduate school's Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. Faculty in five allied health programs train 518 students. These include a physician assistant (PA) program ranked fourth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and a physical therapy (PT) program ran