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Founded in 1765, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine was the first medical school in what would eventually become the United States. UPenn School of Medicine has since gone on to become one of the leading medical schools in the country, with hundreds of students enrolled and nearly 1,500 faculty members.

The University of Pennsylvania school of Medicine has numerous clinical and basic science departments, including cancer biology, neuroscience, physiology, dermatology, neurology, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, pediatrics, radiology, surgery, pharmacology and more. Students can earn M.D.s., Ph.D.s., or Master's degrees in public health, clinical epidemiology or bioethics. Clinical experiences for future physicians begin on the first day of classes and continue until graduation. Required clinical clerkships for medical students include both inpatient and ambulatory experience, and students also have significant time available for electives and other scholarly experiences. And since the School of Medicine is thoroughly integrated with the University of Pennsylvania health system, students have access to a wide range of practical and real-world learning experiences. In recent years, entering classes at the University of Pennsylvania school of Medicine have been comprised of about 150 students, equally divided between male and female and with more than10 percent of students coming from under-represented minority groups.

Ph.D. programs at the University of Pennsylvania school of Medicine include biochemistry and molecular biophysics, cell and molecular biology, epidemiology and biostatistics, genomics and computational biology, immunology, neuroscience and pharmacological sciences. There are more than 500 graduate students at UPenn Medicine working toward Ph.D. degrees.

The University of Pennsylvania school of Medicine is an important research center, so students can be assured that they'll be on the cutting-edge of many important developments in medical science. In recent years, the school has been awarded more than 50 patents and it regularly receives significant amounts of funding from the National Institutes of Health for research and training. Overall, the University of Pennsylvania school of Medicine has 10 building and more than 900,000-square-feet of research space.

Quick Facts:

The first teaching hospital built for a medical school was established at the University of Pennsylvania.

The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is the oldest medical school in the country.

Eighty percent of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine students receive financial aid.

The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has more than 900,000 square feet of research space.

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