UNC School of Medicine

University of North Carolina
School of Medicine
N.C. Memorial Hospital and N.C. Children's Hospital at UNC Hospitals, the main clinical teaching facilities for the UNC School of Medicine
Established1879
DeanA. Wesley Burks, M.D.[1]
Location
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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The University of North Carolina School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It offers a Doctor of Medicine degree along with combined Doctor of Medicine / Doctor of Philosophy or Doctor of Medicine / Master of Public Health degrees.

It is one of the top-ranked medical schools in the country: in 2022, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school 5th in primary care and 25th in research.[2] In 2016, the school received $449 million in research funding. With approximately two-thirds of that amount coming from the National Institutes of Health, the school received more federal research funding than any other public or private university in the South.[3]

  1. ^ "UNC SoM Leadership". UNC SoM Leadership. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  2. ^ "University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill Medical School Overview". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  3. ^ FY 2016 Research Funding June 20, 2017.