West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, USA

The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) is a public medical school for osteopathic medicine located inLewisburg in the US State of West Virginia. Founded in 1974, WVSOM is one of three medical schools in West Virginia and the sole institution that grants the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree. WVSOM currently has 778 students, and focuses onprimary care and rural medicine. In 2014, U.S. News & World Report ranked WVSOM program … Read more

Swansea University Medical School, UK

Swansea University first attempted to establish a medical school in the 1960s but initially missed out to other schools. The university did succeed in introducing Genetics and Biochemistry departments, laying the foundations for future expansion into medicine. Following Welsh political devolution in the 1990s, fresh calls were made to establish a medical school to serve the people … Read more

St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, UK

St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London was one of the oldest and most prestigious medical schools in the UK. The school was absorbed to form part of King’s College London. It was part of one of the oldest hospitals in London, St Thomas’ Hospital established in 1173 but whose roots can be traced to the establishment of St Mary Overie Priory in 1106.According … Read more

St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, Imperial College, UK

St Mary’s is the youngest of the constituent schools of Imperial College London, founded in 1854 as part of the new hospital in Paddington. During its existence in the 1980s and 1990s, it was the most popular medical school in the country, with an application to place ratio of 27:1 in 1996. St Mary’s continued comparatively unmoved by … Read more

West Virginia University School of Medicine, USA

The West Virginia University School of Medicine is the professional school for the study of medicine at West Virginia University inMorgantown, West Virginia. The medical school was established in 1902 as the first such institution in the state of West Virginia. It remains one of only three medical schools in the state. The school is organized into three campuses, formally called … Read more

St. George’s University of London, UK

Originally established in 1733 in Lanesborough House at Hyde Park Corner (now the site of The Lanesborough hotel), in central London, the college moved to its current home in Tooting, South London, in 1980, where it shares a site with St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust. Following Quality Assurance Agency inspections St George’s gained a score of 23 out of 24 for its teaching of medicine the … Read more

Sheffield University School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, UK

The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Sheffield is a medical school active in three fields of medicine: teaching, researchingand practising. The medical school was founded in 1828. The school operated independently as the Sheffield School of Medicine until its mergers with Firth College in 1879 and with Sheffield Technical School in 1884.[1] In 1897 the schools were renamed University College … Read more

Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, USA

At WMed, we are rooted in the heart of Kalamazoo, a Michigan city with a proud history of excellence in education, healthcare, research and life-science exploration – all of which are assets for the continued growth of the medical school. A recognition of those rich resources led John M. Dunn, then the new president of … Read more

Fergana State University Medical Centre, Uzbekistan

Ferghana State University is considered to be the leading educational establishment of Uzbekistan. Having a solid material base, it has been training high-qualified specialists for various spheres of national economy and education system for more than 70 years, research activities in fundamental areas of science is being conducted. The history of the University’s foundation is … Read more

Queen’s University Belfast School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, UK

One of three Queen’s Colleges in Ireland, with the others being in Cork and Galway, it became a university in its own right in 1908. In 1909 there were around 600 students, mostly drawn from the historic nine counties of Ulster. Today there are approximately 23,000 from the UK and Ireland and more than 80 … Read more

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