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Family and Community Medicine Residency Program

The City and Around Campus

Baltimore, MD

Baltimore's skyline is newer and higher, and so is the level of pride Baltimoreans take in their exciting new city. Urban renewal continues to happen at a rapid pace. Baltimore is becoming one of the nation's premier convention meeting locations. The Inner Harbor is the city's main tourist area, attracting one million people each weekend (located 5 blocks from the campus). At one end is the National Aquarium and at the other is the Maryland Science Center. The U.S.S. Constellation, the nation's oldest wartime ship, is docked between them at the center of Harborplace, one of the country's first and most beautiful waterfront shopping malls.

Baltimore is home to the most amazing baseball stadium in America - Oriole Park at Camden Yards, just two blocks from UFM. Also the NFL's 2001 Champions - the Baltimore Ravens - play in one of the newest football stadiums in America, located next to Camden Yards. And every year, horse racing enthusiasts turn to Baltimore for The Preakness, the second leg of horse racing's Triple Crown run at Pimlico Race Course.

As a cultural center, Baltimore offers a world-renowned symphony, opera, theaters, The Peabody Conservatory of Music, The Maryland Institute College of Art, The Walters Art Gallery, and The Baltimore Museum of Art. The city is conveniently located in the Boston-Washington corridor, making Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. an easy drive.

Two and a half hours east of Baltimore are the Atlantic beaches. To the south lies Annapolis, the state capital and premier boating center for the Chesapeake Bay. One hour to the west are the Appalachian mountains, offering year-round recreation, including skiing in the winter. Maryland is, indeed, an America in miniature.


This page was last updated on: November 21, 2007.

For more information, call the University Physicians Consultation and Referral Service at 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).