University of California--Davis

Medical School Overview

U.S. News Rankings

Ranking score and category

Research rank Category Name #42 Best Research

Ranking score and category

Primary care rank Category Name #19 Best Primary Care

Specialties Locked in Rural medicine

Medical School Overview

The School of Medicine at University of California--Davis has an application deadline of October 1. The application fee at University of California--Davis is $80. Its tuition is full-time: $34,554 (in-state) and full-time: $46,799 (out-of-state). The faculty-student ratio at University of California--Davis is 1.8:1. The School of Medicine has 852 full- and part-time faculty on staff.

At the University of California—Davis School of Medicine, students master seven major competencies, such as patient care and system-based practice. The curriculum is broad, readying students to later pursue any specialty. The School of Medicine has a Clinical Education and Assessment Center, where students get hands-on training with “patients” (actors who have been trained to portray patients), and is affiliated with UC Davis Medical Center.

The UC Davis School of Medicine also has several dual degree programs for students who want to earn an M.D./Ph.D., an M.D./M.P.H. (master of public health), or an M.D./M.B.A, as well as a two specialty medical programs: Rural-PRIME, which readies students to work in California’s rural communities, and UC Merced San Joaquin Valley - PRIME, for students who want to work with underserved residents in San Joaquin Valley.

More than 80 percent of students get additional experience in the school’s seven student-run clinics in inner-city neighborhoods. For academic and emotional support outside the classroom, students are grouped into four colleges and then divided into “families” of four students and a faculty member.

Admissions

Applications accepted	June 1 (Begins) October 1 (Ends)
Application fee	$80
AMCAS application accepted	Yes
AACOMAS application accepted	No

Academics

Full-time faculty	725
Full-time faculty-student ratio	1.8:1

Student Body

Total medical school enrollment	413
Gender distribution

Cost

Tuition
Full-time: $34,554 (in-state) Full-time: $46,799 (out-of-state)
Required fees	$5,097

Residency

Graduates admitted to their first-choice residency program	N/A
Most popular residency and specialty programs (2011 and 2012 classes)
anesthesiology pediatrics emergency medicine physical medicine and rehabilitation family practice psychiatry internal medicine surgery - general obstetrics and gynecology transitional year

* Medical School Overview details based on 2012 data