Reputation
The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine is located within the Education Institute on the main campus of Cleveland Clinic. Cleveland Clinic has ranked consistently as one of the top hospitals in the country, with 9 specialties ranking in the top five in the country, and 14 in the top 10.
The Lerner College of Medicine's MCAT score for the applying class of 2011 was the fourth highest in the nation, and the school fielded 1,745 applications for 32 positions.
In 2012, 76% of graduates were matched to hospitals ranked in the Top 13 of the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll Hospitals or within US News Top-10 specialty-specific rankings for their chosen field.
From 2006 through 2011, the school has produced 35 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholars and Fellows, including 2 students in the inaugural class.
In 2012, a research-driven collaboration between IBM and the Lerner College of Medicine was announced to integrate IBM supercomputer Watson into the medical school environment. The computer is intended to interact with medical students on case-based problem solving. The Lerner College of Medicine was chosen for the collaboration because of its primarily case-based learning environment.
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