Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine
Bethesda, MD
🩺 School Overview
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Accreditation Status: Full
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Total Enrollment: 171
Degrees: MD
Founding Year: 1972
Accreditation Year: 1976
Website: https://www.usuhs.edu
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📄 Application Information
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Average MCAT: 511
Average GPA: 3.54
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Interview Feedback Summary
Overall, applicants ranked the school in the top 19% of interviews, indicating it is highly regarded. They found the interview mixed with a low stress level, and felt they did well.
School Review Summary
Overall, students rated the program a 9 out of 10 for satisfaction. The student body is described as highly cooperative. The environment is considered supportive for underrepresented minorities, LGBTQ+ students, married students, students with disabilities, non-traditional students. Graduates feel very well-prepared for board exams. Faculty members are seen as highly approachable.
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About the School
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) is located on the grounds of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. and is the nation's only federal school of medicine, graduate school of nursing and postgraduate dental college. The university's close proximity to the National Institutes of Health, the National Library of Medicine and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center make it a unique location for medical education and research. USU F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine - America's Medical School - is a non-traditional medical school with a unique focus on health promotion and disease prevention. The school has a year-round, four-year curriculum that is nearly 700 hours longer than found at other U.S. medical schools. In addition to disease prevention and health promotion, these extra hours focus on epidemiology, tropical medicine, emerging infectious diseases, leadership and field exercises, disaster medicine and other subjects that relate to the unique requirements of career-oriented uniformed physicians. The F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine provides students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to become supremely competent and compassionate physicians, while also offering them the opportunity to serve their country as uniformed men and women. The School of Medicine charges no tuition, and all students are commissioned as officers in the military or Public Health Service, earning a $64,000 salary yearly.
Curriculum
USUHS students participate in an integrated curriculum that features sixteen months of organ based modules on the Bethesda campus, twelve months of core clerkship rotations at military and civilian treatment facilities across the United States, and seventeen months of post clerkship training at domestic and global facilities.</br>
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The sixteen-month pre-clerkship period allows students to establish a strong scientific foundation, leading to an enhanced understanding of the mechanisms of human disease and the the prevention and treatment of human illness. At the same time, students develop professional identities as officers and physicians, so they may ultimately fulfill the promise of duty and expertise of them. </br>
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After completing pre-clerkship training, students begin a total of 48 weeks of required clinical clerkships accomplished in three sixteen-week blocks. The blocks may be completed in any order, but each block involves completion of a paired set of clinical clerkships incorporating the integration of key clinical and basic science themes or threads.</br>
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The post clerkship period lasts seventeen months. The major objectives of this period are to prepare students for graduate medical education (residency training), and to foster advanced clinical decision-making skills as students move from being able to Report medical information, to Interpreting information, and ultimately being able to Manage and Educate patients in accordance with the synthetic R.I.M.E. model of medical education.</br>
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All blocks are graded on an Honors, Pass, or Fail basis. The only exception is that some units/ rotations may be limited to the award of a pass/fail designation only.
Facilities
USUHS is a medical school whose physical plant is in Bethesda, MD, but whose reach is global through our affiliation with military and civilian treatment facilities across the United States and around the world.</br>
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USUHS is a vital part of the Department of Defense and has faculty members from multiple branches of government, including the Department of Health and Human Services. As a result, USUHS students have access to phenomenal domestic teaching centers like Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Antonio Military Medical Center, Wright-Patterson Medical Center, and the National Institutes of Health. In addition, students have access to DoD and civilian facilities all over the globe, places like our research stations in Peru, Thailand, and South Africa and our hospitals in Korea and Germany.
SDN Insights
Our analysis of USUHS:
Student Loan Burden: $284,140
A student taking student loans for all 4 years of medical school at USUHS, including tuition, fees, locally adjusted cost of living expenses, incidentals, and interest, can expect to have total student loans of $284,140. Estimate repayment with the SDN School Loan Repayment Calculator.
Cost of Living: Highest 77% Nationally
The cost of living at USUHS is among the top 77% of all medical schools. Take this into consideration when considering loan burden.
Environment: Urban
There is currently insufficient information to assess the neighborhood around USUHS.
School Address: Room A1041, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814
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