The
Tufts University School of Medicine is one of the
eight schools that comprise Tufts University
. Located on the university's health sciences
campus in the Chinatown district of Boston
, Massachusetts
, the medical school has clinical affiliations with
thousands of doctors and researchers in the United States
and around the world, as well as at its affiliated
hospitals in Massachusetts (including Tufts Medical Center, Lahey Clinic and Baystate Medical Center).
According to
Science Watch,
Tufts University School of Medicine rates sixth among U.S medical
schools for the impact of its medical research.
Organization and Degree Programs
The Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM), established in
1893, is under the supervision of a dean, appointed by the
president and the
provost, with the approval of the
Trustees of Tufts College (the university's governing board). The
dean is responsible for all aspects of the school's operations,
including medical education, admissions, faculty appointments,
clinical relationships, and various affiliated research centers and
institutes.
The TUSM faculty is divided into seven basic science departments
and eighteen clinical science departments.
The clinical faculty
have primary staff appointments at the Tufts Medical Center, Baystate
Hospital, the VA Boston Medical Healthcare
System
, and Faulkner
Hospital, and seven other teaching hospitals in
Massachusetts. The basic science faculty, on the other hand,
are full-time members of the Tufts University faculty.
TUSM
offers a four year curriculum leading to the degree of doctor of medicine as well as several
combined degree programs: MD/MPH, MD/PhD, the MD/MS in engineering, a joint program with the School of
Engineering, an MD/MBA in Health Management
in collaboration with Northeastern University
and Brandeis University
, and an MD/MALD with the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy. A final unconventional degree program is the
early acceptance joint BA/MD program offered exclusively to
undergraduates at Tufts University, The college of the Holy Cross,
Boston College, Brandeis University, and Northeastern. The School
of Medicine also offers three free–standing programs: a master of
public health degree offered in collaboration with the
School of Arts and
Sciences and the
Gerald J. and Dorothy R.
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and has four
tracks that include: a Bachelors/MPH offered with the School of
Arts and Sciences, a
JD/MPH
offered in collaboration with Northeastern University School of
Law, an MS in Nutrition/MPH offered with the Friedman School of
Nutrition Science and Policy, and DVM/MPH offered with the School
of Veterinary Medicine. The school also offers as a master of
science in health communication and a master of science in pain
research, education and policy in collaboration with the Health
Institute/Tufts Medical Center. In fall 2004, TUSM enrolled
approximately 700 full-time students in first professional degree
programs (MD, MD/MPH, MD/PhD, MD/MBA, MD/MALD, and MD/MS) and
approximately 40 full-time students in graduate degree programs (MS
and MPH). In fall 2007, TUSM began a new masters program (MBS) as
part of the Public Health and Professional Degree program, offering
a Masters of Science in Biomedical Sciences, with 53 full-time
students.
Facilities
The Tufts University School of Medicine and the
Sackler School of
Graduate Biomedical Sciences are located in five adjoining
research buildings along Boston's Harrison Avenue and a teaching
and administrative building, the Arthur M. Sackler Center for
Health Communications. The newest addition is the $65 million,
nine story, Jaharis Family Center for Biomedical and Nutrition
Sciences. The Jaharis Family Center provides research laboratories
and offices for many Sackler faculty members and their students,
postdoctoral fellows and technical staff. The building also
includes offices and laboratory facilities for the Gerald J. and
Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and the
Department of Family and Community Medicine in TUSM. TUSM and the
Sackler School are adjacent to the Tufts Medical Center, the School
of Dental Medicine, and Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of
Nutrition Science and Policy, and across the street from the Jean
Meyer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging.
History
The School of Medicine was established by vote of the Trustees of
Tufts College on
22 April 1893. It was
formed by the secession of seven faculty from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in Boston, a school which was formed in
1880.These "original seven" faculty members successfully lobbied to
establish a medical school under the auspices of Tufts College. The
new school, which was designated the Medical School of Tufts
College, opened its doors in October 1893 with eighty students. The
school was, from the very beginning, coeducational, and of the
twenty-two students who graduated that first year, eight were
women. When the trustees changed the name of the institution from
"Tufts College" to "Tufts University" in 1954, the medical school
became the "Tufts University School of Medicine."
The Tufts Medical Center, the principal teaching hospital of TUSM,
came into existence in
1930 through the
alliance of the Boston Dispensary, the Boston Floating Hospital for
Children, and the Trustees of Tufts College. The New England
Medical Center (NEMC) was established as a non-profit corporation
to coordinate the administrative activities of its constituent
organizations. In 1946 the Pratt Diagnostic Clinic, an extension of
the Boston Dispensary established in
1938,
joined NEMC. In
1950, when the Medical School
and Dental School relocated to Harrison Avenue, the NEMC became
known as the New England Medical Center Hospital. The name of the
institution changed to the Tufts New England Medical Center
(T-NEMC)in
1968, to New England Medical Center
in the 1980s, back to T-NEMC in
2002, and
ultimately to the Tufts Medical Center on
March
4,
2008.
Over the years, the governing boards of
Tufts
University and the
medical center negotiated a series of affiliation
agreements. Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center are
separate corporate entities. However, the president and several
other senior officers of Tufts University are ex-officio members of
the board of directors of the Medical Center.
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