USC Medical School

Keck School of Medicine of USC

Type	Private
Established	1885
Parent institution	University of Southern California
Location	Los Angeles, California
Campus	Urban
Website	keck.usc.edu

The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California teaches and trains physicians, biomedical scientists and other healthcare professionals, conducts medical research, and treats patients. Founded in 1885, it is the second oldest medical school in California after the UCSF School of Medicine.

It is located on the university's Health Sciences campus in northeastern Los Angeles which is adjacent to the Boyle Heights and Lincoln Heights neighborhoods.

In addition to the medical degree program, the school offers master's and doctoral degree programs in various biomedical fields. It also offers the joint MD-PhD program as part of a cooperation with the California Institute of Technology located in nearby Pasadena.

The main teaching hospital is the LAC+USC Medical Center, a Level I trauma center located Downtown Los Angeles jointly operated by USC and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.

USC Health is an affiliated system of hospitals, clinics, and primary care providers and as of 2013, USC Health included three hospitals, some campus-based specialty clinics, five community-based ambulatory care clinics, and USC Care Medical Group, which is the physician practice of doctors who are on the faculty of the Keck School of Medicine. Hospitals and clinics include the Keck Hospital of USC and the cancer center, which USC acquired from Tenet Healthcare in 2009 for $275 million after three years of litigation between the parties,Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and the USC Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale.