VCU School of Medicine

Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Medicine
MottoIn the tradition of the
Medical College of Virginia
TypePublic medical school
Established1838; 186 years ago (1838)
Parent institution
Virginia Commonwealth University
DeanArturo P. Saavedra
Academic staff
1,175 full time faculty
Students759 - M.D.
165 - Masters
281 - Ph. D.
123 - Certificate
Location
Richmond
,
Virginia
,
U.S.

37°32′25″N 77°25′45″W / 37.540341°N 77.429152°W / 37.540341; -77.429152
CampusMCV Campus
Websitemedschool.vcu.edu
MCV Students in front of the Egyptian Building

The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine is the medical school of Virginia Commonwealth University, a public research university in Richmond, Virginia. It is the largest and oldest continuously operating medical school in Virginia. The school traces its beginnings to the 1838 opening of the medical department of Hampden–Sydney College, which in 1854 became an independent institution known as the Medical College of Virginia (MCV). In 1968, MCV joined with the Richmond Professional Institute to form Virginia Commonwealth University.[1] The School of Medicine is one of six schools on VCU's MCV Campus, which includes the VCU Medical Center and Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU.

Located on VCU's MCV Campus in Richmond, the medical school offers dozens of master's, doctoral and interdisciplinary programs in addition to the M.D. degree, postdoctoral research and residency training opportunities.[2] Third- and fourth-year School of Medicine students may elect to train at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Northern Virginia,[3] and the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park in Richmond gives faculty and students an incubator to grow bioscience companies and research programs.

With more than 300 basic science investigators, the School of Medicine accounts for more than half of VCU's sponsored research awards and more than 85 percent of the university's National Institutes of Health funding.[4]

The medical school provides educational expertise and clinical services to the patients of the VCU Medical Center. The medical center offers comprehensive contemporary medical services including the region's Level 1 Trauma Center, a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit, a translational research center,[5] a comprehensive organ transplantation center, a research and rehabilitation center, a children's mental health facility, a burn care center, with a teaching hospital with 779 beds and 650 physicians.[6] Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center is one of 35 designated Ebola centers.[7] VCU faculty staff the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center and VCU faculty serve as national Veterans Administration directors for rehabilitation medicine, radiation oncology, primary care and residency education.[8]

  1. ^ "Medical School - School of Medicine - Richmond - Virginia Commonwealth University - VCU". Medschool.vcu.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  2. ^ "Education - VCU School of Medicine". Medschool.vcu.edu. 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  3. ^ "Inova Campus - VCU School of Medicine". Medschool.vcu.edu. 2013-08-28. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  4. ^ "Research - VCU School of Medicine". Medschool.vcu.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  5. ^ "About Us - VCU Center for Clinical and Translational Research". www.cctr.vcu.edu.
  6. ^ "About Us - Virginia Commonwealth University Health System". Vcuhealth.org. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  7. ^ 35 Hospitals Designated as Ebola treatment centers. USA Today. December 3, 2014 [1]
  8. ^ VA Web Solutions (2013-06-12). "Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center - Locations". .va.gov. Retrieved 2013-10-25.