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Ultimate Medical Academy (UMA) is a nonprofit career education school that grants associate degrees and diplomas in allied health professions.. UMA also has a continuing medical education (CME) division that provides training to more than 50,000 physicians, nurses and other medical professionals annually.
The Florida State University College of Medicine provides third- and fourth-year clinical training at regional medical school campuses in Orlando, Pensacola, Sarasota, Tallahassee, Ft. Pierce, and Daytona Beach, Florida. [12] There are rural training sites in Marianna and Immokalee, Florida, in addition to Thomasville, Georgia. [13]
U.S. News & World Report ranked the College of Medicine 36th out of 122 research-intensive medical schools in the U.S. in 2021. [4] The university's teaching hospital, UF Health Shands Hospital, is nationally ranked in 5 specialties. [5] The ARWU ranked UF's College of Medicine 51st among schools of medicine across the globe in 2012. [6]
Students of the Class of 2014 came from Alaska, California, Florida, Maryland, and Michigan. 84% of students were from Florida, and 54% were Miamians. [1] The Wertheim College of Medicine has a full capacity of 480 medical students—120 students per class. In 2023, the school received more than 6236 applications [7] for the incoming class.
In October 2005, a local Orlando investment company, the Tavistock Group, donated $12.5 million and 50 acres (0.20 km 2) of land to UCF to help establish the UCF Medical School at Lake Nona, and issued a challenge to the Orlando community to help the university raise an additional $12.5 million to boost the total amount of raised funds to $25 million.
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A benchmark in medical education in Jacksonville occurred in 1969 with the formation of the Jacksonville Health Education Program, Inc. (JHEP). This was the first medical extension division of the UF College of Medicine. In 1971, the Duval Medical Center was renamed the University Hospital of Jacksonville.
The USF Health Morsani College of Medicine is the academic medical center of the University of South Florida, a public research university and member of the American Association of Universities in Tampa, Florida. [2] Established by the Florida Legislature in 1965, the college enrolled its charter class in 1971.