Medical Schools
The Role of Medical Schools in Healthcare Delivery
There are a limited number of medical schools in the United States -- only 130. Medical schools are four year institutions. Once students graduate, they must complete a residency in different clinical settings, such as pediatrics or family medicine, to become eligible to practice medicine. The size of medical school classes per year ranges from 75 to over 200. Medical schools are certified by the Association of American Medical Colleges and must demonstrate teaching competencies in system-based care, professionalism and advocacy to continue to be certified.
Medical Schools Partnered with MLPs
38 medical schools -- nearly one-third of all medical schools -- currently partner with medical-legal partnerships in the United States. Some offer MLP courses, electives and rotations. The complete list of MLP medical schools is below. You can filter the list by those schools with MLP courses, electives and rotations and/ or state.
- Boston University School of Medicine (Boston)
- College of Medicine at the University of Toledo (Toledo)
- College of Medicine, University of Florida (Gainesville)
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (San Antonio)
- Emory University School of Medicine (Atlanta)
- FSC College of Medicine (Tallahassee)
- John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu)
- Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
- Medical School, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
- Morehouse School of Medicine (Atlanta)
- School of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio (San Antonio)
- School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine (Irvine)
- School of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (Albuquerque)
- School of Medicine, University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
- St. Louis University School of Medicine (St. Louis)
- Stanford University School of Medicine (Stanford)
- SUNY Upstate Medical University (Syracuse)
- The Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio (Independence)
- UCSF School of Medicine (San Francisco)
- UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (New Brunswick)
- University of Arizona Department of Family and Community Medicine (Residency Program) (Tucson)
- University of California Irvine School of Medicine (Irvine)
- University of Connecticut School of Medicine (Farmington)
- University of Kansas School of Medicine (Kansas City)
- University of Kentucky College of Medicine (Lexington)
- University of Louisville Pediatrics (Louisville)
- University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine (Miami)
- University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center School of Medicine (Albuquerque)
- University Of Oklahoma - Tulsa, School Of Community Medicine (Tulsa)
- University of Virginia School of Medicine (Charlottesville)
- University Pediatrics University of Toledo Medical Center (Toledo)
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (Nashville)
- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (Richmond)
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine (Winston-Salem)
- Warren Alpert Brown University School of Medicine (Providence)
- Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University (Providence)
- Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis)
- Wayne State University School of Medicine (Detroit)
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These [medical-legal partnerships] address the causes of health challenges like malnutrition, homelessness, life-threatening asthma, or the choice between paying for food or medicine. Medical-legal partnership programs help people navigate complex systems that alter the social determinants of health. They secure income supports, get rid of mold in the rental apartment, and involve health care providers in the policy process to tackle patterns that affect many individuals.
Martha Minow, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Harvard University and Legal Services Corporation Board Member