Recognition/Standards

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university’s School of Medicine. U.S. News & World Report ranks Wake Forest University School of Medicine 18th in family medicine, 20th in geriatrics, 25th in primary care and 41st in research among the nation's medical schools. It ranks 32nd in research funding by the National Institutes of Health. Almost 150 members of the medical school faculty are listed in Best Doctors in America.

The School of Medicine is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges and is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which is jointly sponsored by the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges. The biomedical graduate studies program, a unit of the Graduate School of Wake Forest University, has the approval of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The Physician Assistant Program is accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC-PA).

The Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which represents the AAMC and the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association regularly evaluates medical colleges in the United States to ensure that appropriately high standards are being maintained and improved. During its last accreditation review in March 2001, Wake Forest University School of Medicine received the maximum term of accreditation in recognition of the maintenance of high standards in medical education and medical service. The accreditation process will take place again in 2008.

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