Ponce School of Medicine has as its mission to provide high quality education and graduate training, strengthen students character, moral fiber and ethics, and prepare physicians and scientists for a fast-changing world in the area of healthcare delivery and research. Ponce School of Medicine was founded by the Catholic University of Puerto Rico in 1977 with a chartered class of just 26 students. In January of 1980, a group of lay and professional leaders in southern Puerto Rico, established a non-profit organization, the Ponce School of Medicine Foundation, for the purpose of operating the Ponce School of Medicine. In July 1980, the Council of Higher Education of Puerto Rico (CHE-PR) authorized the Foundation to operate the Ponce School of Medicine.
A new campus for Ponce School of Medicine was inaugurated in January 1995. The new facilities include a research building, library, classrooms, and a teaching laboratory building, and the gross anatomy building.
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