UConn School of Medicine, part of the University of Connecticut (UConn), was established in 1961 on the then new 160-acre campus in Farmington. It admitted its first class in 1968 and granted its first medical degrees in 1972. The medical school and its faculty’s teaching, clinical care, and research fuel UConn Health, Connecticut’s only public academic medical center. Today’s 206-acre UConn Health campus is located approximately 38 miles from UConn’s main campus in Storrs and 8 miles from the state capital in Hartford.
The medical school’s advanced MDelta curriculum, implemented in 2016, employs team-based learning instruction and is focused on shaping and refining students’ problem-solving, diagnostic, and treatment skills. Humanism in medicine and the health systems sciences are integral components of MDelta. For nearly 50 years, the UConn medical school has had a strong history of producing the next generation of physicians, and UConn overall has a proud 130 year history and is among the top public universities in the nation.
