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{{Infobox University
|name = Baylor College of Medicine
|image_name = Bcm.jpg
|type = [[Private school|Private]] [[University]]
|established = [[1900]]
|president = [[Peter G. Traber]]
|city = [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]
|state = [[Texas|TX,]]
|country = [[USA]]
|postgrad = 1,211 (678 in medical school, 533 in graduate school, and 130 in allied health)
|faculty = 3,378 (1,755 full-time, 327 part-time, 1,237 voluntary, and 59 emeritus)
|campus = [[Urban area|Urban]], [[Texas Medical Center]]|
|endowment = US $1.08 billion
|website = [http://www.bcm.edu/ www.bcm.edu]
}}

'''Baylor College of Medicine''' is a [[Private university#United States|private]] [[medical school]] located in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], [[United States|USA]] on the grounds of the [[Texas Medical Center]]. It has been consistently rated the top [[medical school]] in Texas and among the best in the United States.<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/med/brief/mdrrank_brief.php America's Best Graduate Schools 2007] ''US News and World Report.'' Accessed [[January 3]] [[2007]].</ref>  Its [[Graduate School]] of [[Biomedical Sciences]] is also highly rated. Baylor has become one of 63 American colleges with an endowment greater than $1 billion<ref>[http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:XJ7Vc5mtAvwJ:www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0112636.html+endowment+college&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8 College and University Endowments, 2005] Accessed [[January 3]] [[2007]].</ref>.

==History==
The school was formed in [[1900]] in [[Dallas, Texas]] as University of Dallas Medical Department. It allied with [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas]] in [[1903]] and moved to the [[Texas Medical Center]] in [[Houston, Texas]] in [[1943]].

In [[1969]], Baylor College of Medicine loosened its ties with  [[Baylor University]] under the direction of Dr. [[Michael E. DeBakey]], in order to receive more state funding and grants. Currently, it is led by Dr. [[Peter G. Traber]], formerly of [[GlaxoSmithKline]] and the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine]].

== Medical School ==
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* [[Developmental Biology]]
* [[Structural biology|Structural]] and [[Computational Biology]] & Molecular [[Biophysics]]
* Translational Biology & Molecular Medicine
* Clinical Scientist Training Program

== Biomedical Research ==
Baylor College of Medicine has dedicated more than 
{{convert|800,000  |square feetft|sqm|-4}} of its space for laboratory research, and is adding another 322,000 in the next few years. According to the National Science Foundation 2004, BCM ranks sixth in R&D spending in the life sciences, behind UCSF, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, UW at Seattle, and UPenn.{{Fact|date=March 2007}} Housed within this research space are exceptional centers and facilities, such as:
* BCM's [[Human Genome Sequencing Center]]
* The [http://www.hnl.bcm.edu Human Neuroimaging Lab]
* The [[Cancer]] Center
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BCM is affiliated with many of the hospitals that make the Texas Medical Center the largest medical center in the world. These include the [[Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston]], [[Texas Children's Hospital]], [[Ben Taub General Hospital]], [[Harris County Hospital District|Quentin Mease Community Hospital]], [[St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital]], the [[Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research]] and the [[Menninger Clinic]], which moved from Kansas in 
[[2002]]. While [[The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center]] is affiliated with the University of Texas, its faculty and trainees may be affiliated with either Baylor or the University of Texas medical school in Houston, which is located across the street from Baylor. [[The Methodist Hospital|Methodist Hospital]] had been Baylor's primary private teaching hospital for many decades. Baylor and Methodist terminated many of their connections during a bitter conflict in [[2004]] for reasons that seem to revolve around a planned ambulatory care center and ownership of the physicians' private practices. This led to the loss of several prominent Baylor physicians who chose to stay with Methodist. Baylor's primary private affiliate then became St. Luke's, while Methodist has affiliated with the [[Weill Cornell Medical College|Weill Medical College]] of [[Cornell University]], which is located in New York City. Methodist and Baylor retain some affiliation. Baylor has strengthened its ties to MD Anderson, leading, for example, to the recent decision for Baylor's chairman of neurosurgery to also be chair at MD Anderson.

The plan for St. Luke's to be Baylor's primary private teaching hospital dissolved, and Baylor now plans to build its own 256 bed hospital within the Texas Medical Center<sup>3</sup>³ Such a hospital may give Baylor more control over its clinical mission and streamline the clinical use of research advances.

==University Affiliation==
Baylor is also affiliated with [[DeBakey High School for Health Professions]]. Tuition for both schools is fully paid. Baylor has combined Bacc/M.D. programs with several other universities as well.

==Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative==
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