At a Glance

LEARNING ENVIRONMENTDeBakey Educational Center » Designed to facilitate Team-Based Learning (TBL) and Just in

Time Teaching (JiTT)

» Contains the latest in multi-media presentation equipment and sound, is filled with tables of six and is surrounded by 15, sixty-five inch LCD flat screens, and two large Smartboards™

Tulane Center for Advanced Medical Simulation & Team Training (Sim Center) » Designed to train students, residents, and faculty using both high

fidelity simulators as well as Crew Resource Management (team training)

» Enables all healthcare professionals, medical students, nursing students, residents, nurses, faculty physicians and technicians to practice and perfect technique in a safe environment

Goldring Teaching Kitchen » Designed to educate physicians, residents and partnering

culinary students

» Features a state-of-the-art kitchen and onsite garden to better understand the impact of diet on health and the role of nutrition in disease prevention

Innovation Center » Designed to foster exchange of ideas throughout the Tulane

community

» Houses Technology Commercialization Seminar Series and students can be part of patent applications, making it the only one of it’s kind in the United States

HISTORY » Celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2009

» Second-oldest medical school in the south and the 15th oldest medical school in the United States

» Employs approximately 400-full time faculty (the current faculty is larger than the pre-Katrina faculty)

» Maintains five community clinics throughout New Orleans, providing quality healthcare to the underserved population

CLASS OF 2021 » 10,002 applicants for 190 seats

» Gender: 89 female

» 101 male

» Age: average=24 (range 20-44)

» New MCAT=510

» Average GPA=3.57

» 50 schools and colleges represented

» 22 From Tulane

» 36 states represented

SPECIAL PROGRAMS » Tulane Medical School Business Proposal Competition/

Technology and Innovation - the only Business proposal competition in a medical school

» DeBakey Scholars Program - research projects are begun early in medical school and culminate with publications and special recognition

» MD/MBA Program

» MD/MPH Program - 4 year program

» Physician/Scientist Program - combined MD/PhD program

» Tulane Accelerated Physician Training Program (TAP-TP, 6+1) - innovative 7 year BS/MD program that includes a year of public service with AmeriCORPS

» Tulane Rural Medical Education Program (TRu MEd)

OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS | 504-988-5187 | tulane.edu/som/admissions

STUDENT ACTIVITIESAAMC Student Representatives (AAMC OSR)Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA)American Medical Association (AMA)American Medical Students Association (AMSA)American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)Anesthesiology Interest GroupBiomedical Sciences Graduate Student Assoc.Business of MedicineCatholic Medical Student AssociationCommunity Medicine Interest Group (CMIG)C. Thorpe Ray Internal Medicine SocietyDermatology Interest GroupDoctors for Global HealthDoctors Ought to CareTulane Emergency Medicine Interest GroupENT Interest GroupFamily Medicine Interest Group (FMIG)Fleur de Vis ClinicHealth Policy Action GroupHistory of Medicine SocietyHonor BoardJewish Medical Students Organization (JMSO)Latin American Student AssociationMD/MPH Student GroupMedArtMedical Student Government (MSG)Music in MedicineMuslim Student Association (MSA)Neurology Interest Group

Nola Free HealthcareOB/GYN Interest GroupOpthamology Interest GroupOwl ClubPediatric Interest Group (PIG)Phoenix SocietyPhysicians for Human Rights (PHR)Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)Psychiatry Journal ClubRadiology Interest GroupRudolph Matas Surgical SocietyRural Medicine Interest GroupService Learning CouncilSexual Health and Reproductive Education(SHARE)Significant Others ClubSports Medicine Interest GroupStudent National Medical AssociationStudents Against Right Brain AtrophyStudent National Medical Association (SNMA)Synergy (integrative medicine)Tulane Asian Medical Student SocietyTulane Christian Medical Association (TCMA)Tulane Emergency Medicine Interest GroupTulane Organization of Gays and Allies (TOGA)Tulane Outreach RomaniaTulane Wilderness Medicine Interest GroupUvulae Acapella Group

STUDENT CENTER

» Located on the 6th Floor of the Murphy Building

» Provides opportunity for study and relaxation

» Includes small group study rooms, kitchen, computer work stations

» Student Fitness Center: exercise equipment including weight machines, free weights, treadmills, saunas and locker rooms

OTHER RESOURCES Housing:

Deming Pavillion tulane.edu/deming

TMedWeb http://tmedweb.tulane.edu/portal/t1

Tulane Bookstore: Located in the Medical School building at 1430 Tulane Avenue, 504-988-5204

OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS | 504-988-5187 | tulane.edu/som/admissions