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 2,158 full- and part-time faculty and 994 volunteer faculty.
The school had 45 applications in 2008 for each of its first-year positions, and its students perform extremely well compared with their peers at other schools. In 2008, 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.
The school has 498 students and trains 1,100 residents and fellows in 81 accredited programs. The school has 72 MD/PhD students in one of the 40 Medical Scientist Training Programs sponsored by the NIH and 460 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 2008 by U.S. News & World Report. The medical school has 18 MD/MPH, one MD/MBA, and two 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 health professions programs train 438 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 $332.7 million in sponsored research in 2008, including $40.2 million received by medical faculty at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and $11 million by faculty at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. Ranked 18th 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 more than 3.8 million patient services annually.
The school has 13,521 alumni (5,288 medical school and 8,233 residency and fellow alumni). One of every four physicians in Georgia was trained at Emory.
In addition to the school's regular education programs, 7,631 physicians and other health care professionals came to Emory last year to participate in continuing medical education.
