The Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine is the medical school at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. It is one of three medical schools in the state of West Virginia.
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History
The school was founded in 1977 with funding from the federal government, which also provided for a medical school at East Tennessee State University at the same time in order to address the severe shortage of physicians in central and southern Appalachia.
The West Virginia Legislature appropriated funding for the school in 1975, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education granted provisional accreditation in 1977, and the first class entered in January 1978 and graduated in 1981.
The school was later named for the late Joan C. Edwards the largest private contributor to the university in modern history.
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Undergraduate Medical Education
The school describes itself as "non-traditional" in that it is not associated with a major research and referral hospital, and students do not take classes in a segregated single building separate from the university. Rather, its aims to educate students using the existing resources of the community and the university to the greatest extent possible.
First year students mainly attend classes on-campus in the Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center (Marshall University) and also take anatomy classes and use library resources at the Robert W. Coon Medical Education Building, located seven miles from campus at the Huntington Department of Veterans Affairs (V.A.) Medical Center.
Second year classes are held at the Erma Ora Byrd Clinical Center (opened in 2007) on the site of the former Fairfield Stadium near Cabell Huntington Hospital where the nationally recognized Forensic Science Program is also located.
Third and fourth year rotations are conducted mainly at Cabell Huntington Hospital in addition to St. Mary's Medical Center and the Huntington V.A. Medical Center. The primary focus of the school is educating a physician workforce for Appalachia, although students are placed in premier residency programs across the United States in primary care and subspecialties.
The school also offers a Master's and Doctorate in Biomedical Sciences (and offers a joint M.D./Ph.D. program) and has recently started a joint M.D./M.P.H. program. The school currently offers residencies in 12 specialties. Under the direction of Joseph I. Shapiro, M.D., the school's fifth dean, Marshall has continued to build on its mission of educating a physician workforce for the Appalachian region. In 2015, the school enrolled its first class into the newly created BS/MD program for West Virginia students, which allows them to complete their bachelor's and medical degrees in just seven years. A new partnership with St George's University of London Medical School was also established, paving the way for global clinical and research opportunities for students at both schools. Graduate Medical Education also expanded in recent years to include residencies in psychiatry, dentistry, and neurology and fellowships in sports medicine (family and community health), nephrology and hematology-oncology.
Admission is based on scholarship, the Medical College Admissions Test, and personal qualifications as judged by interviews and recommendations. As a state-assisted medical school, Marshall gives preference to West Virginia residents. However, some positions will be available to well-qualified nonresidents from states adjoining West Virginia, nonresidents who have strong ties to West Virginia or to students who are introduced to our school through our out-of-state recruitment pipeline and outreach programs. Regardless of their state of residency, applicants are considered only if they are U.S. citizens or have permanent resident visas.
Graduate Medical Education
Fully accredited residencies, internships, and fellowships at Marshall include:
Residencies:
- Psychiatry Residency
- Family Medicine Residency
- Internal Medicine Residency
- Medicine-Pediatrics Residency
- Pediatrics Residency
- Neurology Residency
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency
- Orthopedics Residency
- General Surgery Residency
- General Practice Residency - Dental
Fellowships:
- Sports Medicine
- Cardiology
- Endocrinology
- Interventional Cardiology
- Hematology-Oncology
- Nephrology
- Pulmonology
Accreditation
The School of Medicine is currently fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.
External links
- Official Site
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