Yale School of Medicine
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| Type | Private medical school |
|---|---|
| Established | 1810 |
Parent institution | Yale University |
| Affiliation | Yale New Haven Hospital |
| Dean | Nancy J. Brown |
Academic staff | 5,419 |
| Students | 1,840 |
| Location | , , US |
| Website | medicine |
The Yale School of Medicine is the medical school of Yale University, a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813. It is the sixth-oldest medical school in the United States.
The school’s faculty clinical practice is Yale Medicine. Yale School of Medicine has a strong affiliation with its primary teaching hospital, Yale New Haven Hospital and the Yale New Haven Health System. The school is home to the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, which is one of the country’s largest modern medical libraries and is known for its historical collections.
For the class of 2028, the school received 5,669 applications to fill 104 seats in the MD Program. This puts the acceptance rate at about 1.6%. The median GPA for the class was 3.94, and the median MCAT score was 521.