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UC Davis Medical Center serves a 65,000-square-mile area that includes 33 counties and 6 million residents across Northern and Central California. The 645-bed acute-care teaching hospital maintains an annual budget of roughly $1 billion.
With more than 6,500 employees, UC Davis provides vital care to more than 200,000 patients every year, admitting 25,000 patients for extended care and handling more than 900,000 visits. The medical center's emergency room sees an average of 150 patients every day.
The hallmarks of the UC Davis School of Medicine are its national reputation for life-changing biomedical discoveries, a passion for clinical care, and a commitment to engaging people from underserved communities.
Our students are leaders who appreciate rigorous academic training balanced with hands-on experience, and have a strong desire to serve. Our faculty specialize in translational research covering a wide range of areas and are engaged in innovative, interdisciplinary collaborations, both within the UC Davis community and with other highly regarded institutions.
In 2010, U.S. News & World Report ranks UC Davis School of Medicine among the top 20 schools for primary care training and the top 50 schools for research. The school is affiliated with UC Davis Medical Center, one of the nation’s best teaching hospitals.
Since its founding in 1966, UC Davis School of Medicine continues to have a major impact in Northern California and around the world through education of new physicians, research, patient care and community service.
UC Davis School of Medicine has developed a national reputation for its specialty and primary care programs. The school offers:
+ Volunteer hands-on clinical experience for students at community clinics;
+ Curriculum reflective of today's societal issues — doctor-patient communication, ethics, clinical reasoning, end-of-life care, cultural competency, self-knowledge and human side of illness;
+ A fully accredited master's degree in public health, as well as a master's in business administration, and a doctoral program for physician-scientists to help meet scientific, social, ethical, political and humanitarian challenges of health care;
+ An innovative training program through a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant to enhance Ph.D. biologists’ skills and knowledge in the translation of basic research discoveries into high-impact clinical applications;
+ Stem cell training to help young physician/scientists become better skilled and knowledgeable in stem cell research and its related ethical, legal and social implications;
+ The state's largest program for family nurse practitioners and physician assistants; and
+ Professional development every year to most of the physicians in the region with more than 300 seminars, workshops, on-site hospital tutorials, distance learning, online classes, special lectures and one-hour weekly and monthly medical grand rounds.
Pathology Department Facts at a Glance:
+ 40 faculty and 400 academic and clinical staff
+ 13 residents in combined anatomic and clinical pathology training
+ 5 fellows in cytology, hematopathology, surgical pathology and transfusion medicine
+ 5 million clinical tests performed a year in state of the art clinical laboratories
+ 20,000 surgical pathology and 30,000 cytology specimens annually
+ Total laboratory automation system for clinical chemistry and hematology, the only one of its kind in inland northern California
+ $6 million in research grants and contracts
+ Ranked 49th in NIH funding among academic pathology departments nationally
+ Core research services in electron microscopy, optical biology, histology and tissue microarray, biorepositories, and proteomics
+ Pathology education integrated across the medical student curriculum.
+ Strong tradition of training clinical laboratory scientists, now in its seventh decade
+ Inspiring the next generation of scientists and pathologist via the Edmondson Summer Research Internship program for college students