Morehouse School of Medicine
| Enrollment: 967 Undergraduate: 0 percent Highest degree: Doctoral, Professional |
President: Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG Founded: 1973 |
Founded in 1975 at Morehouse College as a two-year medical sciences program, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) became independently charted in 1981 and established as a four-year medical school in 1985. MSM is among the nation’s leading educators of primary care physicians, biomedical scientists and public health professionals. A private, historically-Black medical school, MSM was recognized by the Annals of Internal Medicine as the nation’s number one medical school in fulfilling a social mission — the creation and advancement of health equity to achieve health justice. Morehouse School of Medicine faculty and alumni are noted for excellence in teaching, research and public policy, as well as exceptional patient care. MSM is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award doctoral and master’s degrees.
MSM has 17 nationally recognized research centers and institutes, including the National Center for Primary Care and the Institute for Translational Genomic Medicine.
The institution confers 16 degrees including doctor of medicine, doctor of philosophy in biomedical sciences, doctor of health administration, master of science in physician assistant studies, master of public health and master of science in clinical research. With more than 1,500 alumni practicing in 45 states, MSM admits approximately 110 M.D. students annually from more than 6,800 candidates who apply.
