4301 Jones Bridge Rd.
Bethesda, MD 20814

The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is located in Bethesda, Maryland and was established by Congress in 1972. The Maryland school provides training to educators, nurses and military physicians. The curriculum at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences pairs education, research, service, and consultation with military medicine, disaster medicine and military medical readiness.

The F. Edward Hebert school of medicine offers students at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences a year-round, four-year curriculum and is over 600 hours longer than curriculums available at other medical schools in the U.S. The extra hours cover a variety of subjects, including epidemiology, disease prevention, topical medicine and field exercises.

Alumni from the Maryland school hold various positions in the military and public health systems, ranging from leadership posts at the Food and Drug Administration to commands at major military medical centers. Other alumni from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences have gone on to direct medical teams and care for U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Quick Facts:

The F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences has more than 4,000 physician alumni. Over 76 percent of its alumni serve on active duty in the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and U.S. Public Health Service.

The Maryland school holds more than 289 patents or pending patents in the biomedical sciences.

The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences has over 300 faculty members on-campus and more than 3,000 faculty members off-campus.

More than 650 students attend the Maryland school, representing nearly all 50 states. Over 40 percent of students enter with prior military experience.

At the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, more than 650 trainees are enrolled in the National Capital Consortium.

In 2007, U.S. News & World Report ranked the nurse anesthesia program in the nursing graduate school sixth in the nation out of 106 programs.

In its first year of operation, the Center for Deployment Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences trained more than 500 social workers and psychologists.

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