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University of Miami School of Medicine
Campus
The University of Miami (UM), founded in 1925,
has four campuses in the Miami area. The UM campuses include:
the Coral Gables Campus with its two colleges and ten schools
located on a 260-acre tract in suburban Coral Gables; the
Medical Campus which consists of 12.5 acres within the 67-acre
University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center complex
including Jackson Memorial Hospital, the Veteran Affairs Medical
Center, the Diabetes Research Institute, the Ryder Trauma
Center, and two University-owned hospitals- -the University
of Miami Hospital and Clinics/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer
Center and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute/Anne Bates Leach
Eye Hospital; the Rosenstiel School Campus, Rosenstiel School
of Marine and Atmospheric Science located on a 16-acre waterfront
campus on Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay; and, South Campus
located ten miles southwest of Coral Gables, opened in 1986
on a 106-acre site for the purpose of conducting research
and development projects.
The University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center is
consistently ranked as one of the top medical centers in the
country. Its quality of care, acclaim for the University's
research efforts, and biomedical innovations, have made the
medical center a leading academic and clinical institution.
With over 1.5 million square feet of research space, and $130
million in research funding, the medical center comprises
one of the largest research facilities in the world. At the
center of this enterprise is the University of Miami School
of Medicine, founded in 1952, as Florida's first accredited
medical school. The School is centered in the 67-acre University
of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital campus with extensive clinical
facilities at five hospitals with over 2600 beds. It has more
than 1000 full-time faculty, including more than 600 M.D.'s.
The University of Miami School of Medicine has established
a research enterprise which the National Institutes of Health
ranks in the top 30 percent of the country's 125 medical schools
with regard to research funding awarded. The medical school's
full-time faculty members and an additional 400 research personnel
conduct clinical and basic science research crossing all disciplines,
from epidemiology and pediatrics to AIDS, psychiatry and the
neurosciences. Through its extensive clinical facilities,
the School provides a central referral University practice
for southern Florida. It also provides services for the health
care of most indigent patients in Dade County through Jackson
Memorial Hospital, the only county hospital, amounting to
more than $150 million per year.
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