University of Central Florida College of Medicine - Campus

Campus

UCF's College of Medicine is located on the university's Health Sciences Campus in the Lake Nona neighborhood of Orlando. The 50 acre (.2 km2) campus, is located on the eastern edge of Orlando, and about 45 minutes from UCF's main campus. The medical city currently also serves as a home to UCF's Burnett Biomedical Sciences Building, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Nemours Children’s Hospital, M.D. Anderson Orlando Cancer Research Institute, a University of Florida Academic and Research Center and Valencia College at Lake Nona, and the Orlando Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VA).

In the future, the campus will house UCF's College of Nursing and a teaching hospital. In addition, UCF plans to add a College of Dental Medicine in the next few years. The college will be built on the Health Sciences Campus, and has already been approved by the university's Board of Trustees. Other companies are also planning on building major medical research facilities in the area, with over $2 billion worth of projects awarded.