UA College of Medicine – Phoenix in Partnership with ASU Admits Second Class
A total of 48 students participated in a white coat ceremony on Aug. 9.
They come from as far away as Montreal. They’ve studied all facets of science, competed in triathlons, conducted medical research and served in the armed forces. Now, they’re embarking on an educational path to become physicians.
The second class of first-year medical school students at The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix in partnership with Arizona State University began classes in downtown Phoenix July 28.
The class includes 27 women and 21 men – double the size of the inaugural class last fall. Members of this year’s class of 48 are all Arizona residents, but they have studied at 21 different schools in 13 states and Canada. Students at the College of Medicine – Phoenix will take classes based on a curriculum that includes an emphasis on biomedical informatics, personalized medicine and a scholarly project that each student undertakes.
The latest class of students includes 48 in the Phoenix program and 110 students who are taking courses at the UA College of Medicine in Tucson. Students were selected from a group of more than 800 applicants. Among the criteria used to choose the students are grades, Medical College Admission Test scores, community service and their experience in research and patient care.
The college considers only Arizona residents, highly qualified applicants from Montana or Wyoming (under an agreement with the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education) and Native Americans who reside on reservations contiguous with the state of Arizona. (Montana and Wyoming do not have allopathic medical schools.)
In 2004, the Arizona Board of Regents approved a historic agreement to expand the UA medical college to Phoenix in partnership with ASU to help address the physician shortage in Arizona, where an aging and expanding population underscores the need for physicians.
The City of Phoenix provided land to establish the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, which includes the medical college, the Translational Genomics Research Institute and the Arizona Biomedical Collaborative 1 building, which houses researchers from the UA and ASU.
The UA College of Pharmacy has opened an office on campus and health-related programs from Northern Arizona University plan to come to downtown Phoenix.
In June, the Arizona Legislature approved an economic stimulus package that includes funds for the expansion of the Phoenix Biomedical Campus to accommodate additional students and faculty for the Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy as well as for ASU and NAU.
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