University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
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Former names
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California College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons California College of Medicine |
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| Motto | Fiat Lux |
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Motto in English
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("Let There Be Light") |
| Type | Public, Land, Space Granted Research University |
| Established | 1896 |
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Parent institution
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University of California, Irvine |
| Dean | Howard Federoff, M.D. |
| Location |
Irvine and Orange, California, USA 33°38′43.26″N 117°50′33.51″W / 33.6453500°N 117.8426417°WCoordinates: 33°38′43.26″N 117°50′33.51″W / 33.6453500°N 117.8426417°W |
| Campus | Suburb |
| Colors | Blue and Gold |
| Nickname | UCI med school, UC Irvine Health |
| Mascot | Anteater |
| Affiliations |
University of California, Irvine Association of American Universities UCI Medical Center UCI Grunigen Medical Library |
| Website | www |
The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine (UC Irvine School of Medicine or UCI School of Medicine) is an LCME accreditedmedical school, co-located in Orange County's cities of Irvine on the University of California, Irvine campus and Orange at the UC Irvine Medical Center. Of the medical schools evaluated for its 2013 edition (released March 13, 2012), U.S News & World Report ranked the school 43rd in Research and 61st in Primary Care. The school was founded in 1896 by A.C. Moore and is the oldest continually operating medical school in the greater Los Angeles area.
The School of Medicine consists of 19 clinical and 6 basic science departments and has several graduate degree-granting programs. These include PhD programs in epidemiology, the interdisciplinary PhD program in cellular & molecular biosciences (CMB) the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP), pharmacology and toxicology, and MS programs in environmental toxicology and genetic counseling.
In 2010, UC Irvine opened its $40.5 million, 65,000-square-foot (6,000 m2) on-campus medical education building that provides a simulation training center along with clinical laboratories and telemedicine stations.
The UC Irvine School of Medicine was the first medical school in the country to adopt a totally tablet-based curriculum.
Howard Federoff, MD, PhD serves as Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs and dean of the School of Medicine.
Although the School of Medicine joined UC Irvine in 1967, its history goes back more than 100 years to the very foundations of osteopathic medicine.
In 1896, the Pacific College of Osteopathy was founded in the city of Anaheim. Upon moving to Los Angeles in 1904, and through a merger with the Los Angeles College of Osteopathy, the California College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons was created in 1914 and would exist as such until 1961.
In that year, as the California Osteopathic Association merged with the California Medical Association, the California College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons converted into an MD-granting medical school and was renamed the California College of Medicine (CCM). Over the next three years, its administrators worked with the University of California to have it become the third UC medical school, joining those on the San Francisco and Los Angeles campuses.
This vision was realized on October 1, 1965, when the California College of Medicine passed into the full control of the UC Regents and became part of the University of California. Four days later, UC President Clark Kerr received a CCM faculty resolution requesting that the Regents designate UC Irvine as the campus on which the College of Medicine be developed.
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