Program Information
Since its modest beginning in 1952 the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine has grown at a phenomenal rate into the second busiest health care center in the nation. Located in downtown Miami at the University of Miami/Jackson Medical Center, the School is ranked among the top 25 medical centers in the country, and features cutting edge research funded by $200 million in annual funding for nearly 1,200 research projects. In this stimulating and supportive environment, exciting and challenging opportunities abound for students seeking training in a variety of programs, including the M.D. program, the combined M.D./Ph.D. program, the Masters programs in Public Health (MPH,MSPH), the D.P.T and Ph.D. Programs in Physical Therapy and Ph.D. research programs in biomedical science. For more information about these programs, please click on the links above.

The Miller School of Medicine is located on the medical campus next to Jackson Memorial Hospital in the Civic Center area of Miami. Most of the teaching facilities are located in the Rosenstiel Medical Sciences Building and the Glaser Medical Research Building, and include newly renovated state-of-the-art lecture halls, teaching laboratories, the Glaser Computer Laboratory, and 12 brand new patient examination and small group learning rooms. The medical library receives more than 1,800 periodicals and holds more than 200,000 volumes; additional resources are available in the University libraries on the Coral Gables campus.

The more than 1,000 faculty members that comprise the departments of the Miller School of Medicine combine excellence in teaching with research leadership in their respective fields, with many achieving significant national and international recognition. Twenty-five percent of faculty members are Ph.D.'s involved in basic science and translational research. Faculty are carefully selected and many currently hold or were previously awarded Research Career Development Awards of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Heart Association or the American Cancer Society (ACS).

With two newly constructed modern research facilities and plans for more on the way, you have at your disposal all the tools needed for cutting edge research. Faculty laboratories are well equipped for state-of the- art research and Additional shared facilities include those for DNA and peptide synthesis, protein sequencing and amino acid analysis, DNA microarrays, proteomics, monoclonal antibody screening and production, fluorescence-activated cell sorting, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, transgenics and computers for the analysis of protein structure. Research opportunities are also readily available at nationally recognized research centers on campus, including: the William L. McKight Vision Research Center of the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, The National Parkinson's Research Center, the Diabetes Research Institute, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mailman Center for Child Development, the Batchelor Children's Research Institute, and the VA Medical Center.