Georgetown University Medical Center is comprised of a nationally ranked School of Medicine (founded in 1849), School of Nursing & Health Studies (founded in 1903), Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and its Biomedical Graduate Research Organization. In 2005, GUMC brought in $138 million in sponsored research funds, most of which was federally funded. Clinical care is provided at Georgetown University Hospital and satellite locations through a partnership with MedStar Health. The Medical Center is the largest and most prominent Catholic medical center in the country.

School of Medicine

Georgetown's School of Medicine provides a comprehensive approach to medical education, always with an eye to the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis, or "care of the whole person." As one of the most selective medical schools in the country, the School of Medicine is consistently ranked in US News and World Report's top 50 graduate programs at research universities. In 2004, the School of Medicine opened its integrated Learning Center, which supports the School of Medicine's emphasis on a patient centered, competence-based curriculum and provides the latest methods of clinical teaching and evaluation. Georgetown medical students consistently match into top medical schools around the country for their residency programs.

Faculty:  1,470 faculty

746 full-time faculty; 724 part-time faculty

Students:  718 medical students (M.D. candidates)

Tuition:  $38,606 (2006-2007)

Financial aid:  In 2005-06, 86 percent of Georgetown medical students received financial aid.

Admissions:  In 2006, Georgetown University School of Medicine received 8,943 applications for 190 slots. Average science GPA of incoming students 3.6, with a mean MCAT score of 10.2. 

Noteworthy:

• This years Match Day was another great success at Georgetown with nearly 40 percent of Georgetown students matched into top ranked programs in highly competitive medical specialties including those at Harvard University, Duke University Medical Center, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center.  
• U.S. and World Report ranked Georgetown's School of Medicine 46^th -- the same as last year -- among top research schools in the United States in its graduate school rankings of 2007.
• The School of Medicine was reaccredited through 2011 by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) in 2005.

School of Nursing & Health Studies

Georgetown's School of Nursing & Health Studies is home to five academic departments: Professional Nursing, Advance Practice Nursing, Human Science, International Health, and Health Systems Administration and a wide range of research projects. Through generous gifts from individual donors, alumni and parents, NHS recently expanded and opened a dedicated teaching laboratory environment, the Discovery Center, which allows for classroom facilities to co-exist with a shared student/faculty research laboratory.

In 2006, two programs in the School of Nursing & Health Studies were nationally accredited: a Master's program in Health Systems Administration and an undergraduate program in Healthcare Management and Policy. In 2005, NHS became home to the first nurse-focused AmeriCorps-funded grant, a professional nursing corps called Nurses for America, which trains nurses and places them in underserved communities around the country.

Faculty:  41 full-time faculty members

Students: 474 undergraduates; 232 graduate students (Male/female breakdown is 135/572). Approximately 24 percent represent ethnic minority backgrounds.

Admissions:  In 2006, Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies received 528 applications for the freshman undergraduate class and admitted 178 students ? a selectivity rate of 34 percent.  The school's applications have increased 98 percent from 2001. The SAT range of admitted students is verbal 630-700 and math 640-720.

• One of the country's oldest schools of nursing, the NHS graduate nursing program was ranked in the top 30 by U.S. News & World Report. The nurse anesthesia program was ranked in the top 10.  
• The school has recruited a number of nationally and internationally recognized experts to join the already esteemed faculty. Emphasis is placed on the advancement and promotion of learning in the areas of international health, child and family development, elimination of health and education disparities, healthcare for vulnerable populations and the study of complex health systems.

RESEARCH

Georgetown University Medical Center's medical research enterprise received $138 million in funding in 2005. Approximately 60 percent of the Medical Center's funding is from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and 30 percent is from other government sources. The remainder is from foundations, industry and other sources.

Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

An integral part of the Medical Center, the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center seeks to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer through innovative basic and clinical research, patient care, community education and outreach, and the training of cancer specialists for the future. Founded in 1970, Lombardi is one of only 40 institutions in the nation designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a comprehensive cancer center, and is the only one in the Washington area.

Biomedical Graduate Research Organization

Home to more than 70 percent of Georgetown University's sponsored research funding, Georgetown's Biomedical Graduate Research Organization (BGRO) was created to foster cutting-edge interdisciplinary collaboration and to enhance our basic science and translational research capacity, especially in the areas of neurosciences, child health and human development, cardiovascular-kidney diseases, infectious diseases and in collaborative work with researchers and clinicians from Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.  In addition to promoting this lifesaving research, our focus on educational and academic excellence in the biomedical sciences is helping to create the next generation of researchers in the United States and around the world.

PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH MEDSTAR HEALTH

On June 30, 2000, Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Health, Inc., finalized a clinical partnership agreement that had been in development for more than a year. Under the terms of the agreement, MedStar Health owns, operates, and has financial responsibility for Georgetown University's clinical enterprise, which includes a hospital, a faculty practice group, and a network of community physician practices. The various units of the clinical enterprise are now referred to collectively as Georgetown University Hospital (GUH), one of seven hospitals in MedStar's D.C./Maryland system.

Georgetown University continues to own, operate, and have financial responsibility for the education and research enterprises-which include the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing and Health Studies, and the medical research enterprise which primarily takes place in the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization. These units continue to be known collectively as Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC).

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