Meharry Medical Arts Center

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About Meharry Medical College
Meharry Medical College is the nations largest private, independent historically black academic health center dedicated solely to educating minority and other health professionals. The College is particularly well known for its uniquely nurturing, highly effective educational programs; emerging preeminence in health disparities research; culturally sensitive, evidence-based health services; and significant contribution to the diversity of the nations health professions workforce. To date, more than 76% of our graduates practice in underserved communities and more than 60% of our graduates from the School of Medicine enter primary care. read more
Meharry Medical College One of the Nation's Top Producers of Primary Care Physicians
A new study from the Annals of Internal Medicine ranks Meharry Medical College as one of the nation’s top producers of primary care physicians and second highest in “social mission score."
The first-of-a-kind quantitative study funded by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation ranked all the nation’s 141 allopathic and osteopathic medical schools based on three metrics: 1999-2001 medical school graduates who practice in primary care, number of medical school graduates who work in health professional shortage areas and number of physician graduates who are underrepresented minorities in medicine. read more

Marquetta L. Faulkner, M.D., MBA, Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Medicine was awarded the prestigious Joy McCann Endowed Professorship.