Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) is a public medical school located in Camden, New Jersey. It was created as a partnership between Rowan University and Cooper University Hospital in 2009 by the executive order of Governor Jon Corzine. CMSRU opened in summer 2012. It is the first new medical school in New Jersey in over 35 years and the only four-year MD-granting medical school in South Jersey. Rowan University and The Cooper Health System partnered in June 2009 to establish CMSRU. Located in Camden, NJ, CMSRU will help address the physician shortage locally and nationally, and improve healthcare throughout the region. New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie spoke at the school's opening. Its charter class was admitted in May 2012, and a second class matriculated in the Fall of 2013. By August 2015, CMSRU matriculated all four years of students.
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Facilities
The Cooper Medical Education Building is on South Broadway on the Cooper Health Sciences campus. It opened in July 2012 and contains a 260-seat auditorium, a 140-seat multipurpose room, 25 Active Learning Rooms, a Clinical Simulation Center and a satellite medical library. It is a Gold LEED certified building.
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Accreditation
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University is fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education Rowan University is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
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