Facultad de Ciencias Médicas | |
 FMED building across Plaza Houssay | |
| Type | Faculty |
|---|---|
| Established | 1822 |
| Affiliation | University of Buenos Aires |
| Dean | Luis Ignacio Brusco |
| Students | 24,198[1] |
| Location | , 34°21′20″S 58°14′07″W / 34.3556°S 58.2353°W |
| Website | fmed |
The Faculty of Medical Sciences (Facultad de Ciencias Médicas; FMED), formerly and commonly known as the Faculty of Medicine, is the medical school of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the largest university in Argentina. Established in 1822 as one of the UBA's earliest divisions, FMED is presently the largest medical school in Argentina, with over 24,000 enrolled students as of 2011.[1][2]
The Faculty operates most of the university's hospital network, including the Hospital de Clínicas "José de San Martín", its main teaching hospital. It also has specialized research institutes dedicated to oncological, phthisiological, and cardiological studies.
Most of the faculty's facilities are housed in a large complex located opposite Plaza Houssay, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta. The complex was inaugurated in 1944, and its prominence has made the area surrounding it known simply as "Facultad de Medicina".
- ^ a b "Censo estudiantil 2011" (PDF). uba.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings 2016". Top Universities. 25 August 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2017.