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Please add the date that the school moved locations. 66.215.4.48 21:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

what is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.135.0.6 (talk) 21:33, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mdraper91101 started editing this article and USC Eye Institute today and has done nothing but add promotional content. Clear COI. per recent events at Eye Institute. Jytdog (talk) 23:51, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I find the content added in this dif creating a new section, called Deaths, and listing one person who died there, bizarre. First of all he did at the Verdugo Hills Hospital, which is not the Keck School of Medicine (part of USC) but rather is part of "USC Health" which is an affiliated healthcare service provider. Next, the guy died at Verdugo in 2004, before the hospital became part of USC Health. Finally, even if this article was about USC Health (the healthcare service provider) I am not aware of articles about other hospitals that actually have "deaths" sections where you find a WP:LAUNDRYLIST of people who died there. This is just strange. Jytdog (talk) 12:34, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

moving here, per PRESERVE

History

Established in 1885, the USC College of Medicine became the region's first medical school and the second professional school founded at USC. That same year, led by its first dean Joseph Pomeroy Widney, M.D., the school entered into an affiliation with the Los Angeles County Hospital—a relationship that still exists today—enabling students to train in one of the largest teaching hospitals in the nation.

The school’s original home was in a two-story brick building that formerly housed a winery. In 1896 the USC College of Medicine opened a modern three-story building constructed with $20,000 that the faculty had personally borrowed.

In 1932, the USC School of Medicine established an affiliation with Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). The following year, Los Angeles County opened a new modern county hospital, the Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center. The building was used for 75 years until replaced in 2008.

In 1949 the University purchased land adjacent to the county hospital, which became the nucleus of the medical campus known today as the USC Health Sciences campus.

The 1950s and 1960s saw the school emerge as an innovator by adding a Doctor-Patient Relations program to its curriculum and developing a standardized patient program—using actors to help train medical students—and creating a mannequin, later dubbed Sim One, which could simulate the physiological responses of a human body. The innovations proved highly successful and garnered much respect for the school’s developing curriculum. The standardized patient program has grown steadily in popularity and is common among medical schools today.

In 1973, the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center was established as one of the original National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. The campus further expanded with the opening of the Doheny Eye Institute in 1985 and USC University Hospital, now called Keck Hospital of USC, in 1991.

In 1999, the school was named the Keck School of Medicine of USC to honor a generous $110 million gift from the W. M. Keck Foundation, the largest philanthropic gift ever made to a U.S. medical school at that time.

In 2009, USC bought USC University Hospital and USC Norris Cancer Hospital from Tenet Healthcare Corporation and currently operates both of these teaching hospitals.

Notable achievements

Keck faculty have achieved a number of "firsts" for the school:

• 1969 – development of the first academic Department of Emergency Medicine in the nation
• 1970 – discovery of the first cancer-causing gene or oncogene
• 1972 – establishment of Los Angeles County's Cancer Surveillance Program—one of the largest and most scientifically productive population-based cancer registries in the world
• 1993 – development of the world’s first double lobar lung transplant from living-related donors
• 2002 – development of the first retinal implant, as part of revolutionary research to restore sight to those blinded by degenerative retinal diseases
• 2010 – development of HIV-resistant blood stem cells

Affiliated hospitals and practices

Hospitals and clinics include:

• Keck Hospital of USC, a private, 400-bed acute care hospital staffed by faculty of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. ^{[citation needed]}
• USC Norris Cancer Hospital, a 60-bed inpatient facility affiliated with the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. ^{[citation needed]}

-- Jytdog (talk) 06:48, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

storing here - too cluttered now

-- Jytdog (talk) 06:57, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Girion, Lisa (11 February 2009). "USC buys 2 disputed hospitals on campus". Los Angeles Times.

-- Jytdog (talk) 07:18, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

User: Samrajah the following is a) a few points of data about one class, and not encyclopedic- no contextualization of any kind; b) sourced only from their website, and WP is not a webshost

Admissions

The Class of 2020 had a median MCAT score of 35 and GPA of 3.7 at admission. 76% of the 186 students that comprise the class are from California.^[1]

- Jytdog (talk) 19:07, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, so I'm still learning everything. What is the OTRS tag at the top of the talk page, what does it mean, and does it justify close paraphrasing of content on keck.usc.edu? Thanks, Icebob99 (talk) 16:36, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]