Florida Atlantic University Charles E Schmidt College Of Medicine Program Latest 2023

Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine

Type	Public
Established	2011
Dean	Julie G. Pilitsis
Academic Staff	202
Students	Medicine: 256
Location	Boca Raton , Florida , USA
Internet site	www.fau.edu/medicine/

The Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine it’s the Medical school in Florida Atlantic University located in Boca Raton, Florida, U.S. The college offers the degrees of doctor of medicine (MD), Doctor of Medicine/Doctor of Philosophy (MD/Ph.D.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.).

In the spring of 2010, FAU launched its own independent medical school, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, as the 134th medical school in the United States. The inaugural class was received in August 2011. In 2015, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine achieved full accreditation of the LCME for your MD degree. Accreditation means that national standards for function, structure, and performance are met by the medical school’s education program.

In the fall of 2011, the FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education (GME) consortium was formed with five Palm Beach County hospitals: Bethesda Hospital East; Boca Raton Regional Hospital; and the Tenet HealthCare system’s Delray Medical Center, the St. Mary’s Medical Center and the West Boca Medical Center.

Charles E. Schmidt School of Medicine inaugurated FAU’s first clinical medicine residency, with the first class of 36 residents in July 2014. In November 2021, the faculty announced that the neurosurgeon Julie G. Pilitsis would serve as dean beginning in February 2022.

In 2016, the college’s general surgery residency program was approved for a total of 45 clinical positions and up to seven positions for a single year of value-added scholarship and research, making this program one of the largest in the country. The college formed a Department of Surgery in 2016, which includes professors of general surgery and its various subspecialties, as well as orthopedics, neurosurgery, urology, ophthalmology, and otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, among others.

FAU’s emergency medicine residency program was approved in 2016 for a total of 18 slots, with the first class of six residents matching in 2017. Resident rotations in the program include emergency medicine, trauma, medical ICU, surgical ICU, pediatric ICU and anesthesia .

As of 2017, FAU has been approved for a 4-year psychiatry residency program, a 4-year neurology residency program, and a 3-year cardiology fellowship program. All programs received their first classes on July 1, 2018.

The college also offers several graduate programs, including master’s thesis and non-thesis programs in biomedical sciences, a doctoral program in integrated biomedical sciences, and an MD/PhD program with The Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida. There is also a newly established MD/MBA program with the FAU College of Business which allows you to complete your MD and MBA in 4 years.

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External Links

• official website
• Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine

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