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In 1807, following an act of the Maryland government, John Beale Davidge and colleagues established the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the fifth medical college in the United States, and the very first public medical school. It was the first medical school to institute a residency training program associated with a teaching hospital -- the Baltimore Infirmary.
Davidge Hall remains the oldest building in this hemisphere continually used for medical education. The University of Maryland Medical Center now cares for more than 30,000 in-patients and 200,000 outpatients each year, and as our population has grown, so has the hospital to meet the expanded need.
The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center was added in 1989, and is the nation's premier trauma center. In 1994 the Homer Gudelsky Building, a major addition for in-patient medical care, was completed, and adjoined to the North Hospital. It sits directly across Greene Street from Davidge Hall. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building, added in 2002, is a new patient care facility housing adult and pediatric emergency departments and new intensive care units for Medicine and Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. It is also the home of new operating rooms equipped for percutaneous interventions, and minimally invasive cardiac surgery intraoperative TEE and hybrid cardiac procedures.
Further expansion of our Medical Center has continued with the development of a new center for students and residents, located immediately across Lombard Street from the hospital. The Student Center, scheduled to open in the summer of 2009, will house the campus bookstore, expanded dining facilities, and an athletic center complete with a 25-meter pool. The BioPark will house expanded basic science, vascular biology, and vaccine development laboratories.
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