Welcome to Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.

Our 200,000 square foot Medical Education building is the home base for the 400 plus students studying medicine at our school.

We're located just one block from our clinical affiliate, Cooper University healthcare and the heart of the Health Sciences Campus in the city of Camden.

Normally, this would be a bustling campus, but due to the covid 19 pandemic, things are a bit quieter at the moment.

When you enter CMSRU, you are greeted by Rowan public safety officers who are on site.

24/7 our knowledgeable and friendly public safety team can provide rides and escorts to CMSRU students at any time of day.

Many members of our security team are former Camden police officers and are familiar with the community.

Just past the security desk is the main lobby.

This soaring space has served not only as a social gathering area for students, faculty and staff, but has also been the site of important school wide events, including match days, holiday luncheons and post lecture receptions.

To the right of the lobby is our Learning Commons, which serves as a combination Modern Library and study space equipped with computers and printers here, print and digital versions of all required textbooks for courses in the cmsru curriculum are available to students.

Our full time staff of knowledgeable medical librarians are available to assist students and faculty at both the Learning Commons and a second library located on the ground floor of Cooper University Hospital.

In addition to the Learning Commons, a number of additional quiet study spaces are available throughout the building to meet various study needs.

Centrally located on the first floor of the Medical Education Building is our main auditorium.

The auditorium can seat 250 and is used for delivery of lectures, exams, Grand Rounds and other special programming.

All lectures are recorded, so students may review them at any time.

A nearby multipurpose room serves as a second lecture hall and can be reconfigured for small group or team based learning sessions or extracurricular activities.

The Medical Education building was designed around our curriculum of case based learning, which takes place in our 28 active learning group rooms, or algs.

These rooms serve as a home base for first and second year students throughout the academic year, each room is designed to accommodate groups of eight to nine students, plus two faculty facilitators, a basic scientist and a clinician.

Each room is equipped with a computer projection screen, whiteboards and ample storage space for personal possessions.

Just down the hall from the algs are student break areas, which provide relaxation and dining space for students.

CMSRU is committed to supporting students and providing a comprehensive wellness program.

Facilities located on the fourth floor include the wellness studio with free weights and TRX training equipment, yoga, Zumba and other workout classes, all free of charge, are conducted in the wellness studio.

There is also a small cardio room and a meditation room for individual reflection.

A student lounge is temporarily located on the fifth floor, complete with a ping pong table, soft seating and a television.

A new Student Lounge is currently under construction.

On the fourth floor, you'll find the multi purpose laboratory, a space designed to support hands on laboratory educational sessions.

It can also serve as a large classroom space.

Down the hall from the multi purpose laboratory are the offices of the full time Biomedical Sciences faculty who serve as ALG facilitators, lecturers, lab instructors and mentors, our on site faculty offices ensure access for students to interact with the faculty regularly on a one to one basis.

Faculty research laboratories are located on the fifth floor, providing research opportunities for CMSRU students.

Additional research opportunities are available with clinical faculty at Cooper University healthcare, the anatomy laboratory is located on the sixth floor.

The lab features 21 stations for cadaveric dissection and numerous anatomic models and other resources to aid students while dissecting.

Our clinical affiliate, Cooper University Hospital, is located one block west of cmsru.

Here, students gain hands on patient experiences at Southern New Jersey's leading tertiary care hospital.

This includes the region's only level one trauma center, the only level two pediatric trauma center, and the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper the Roberts.

Billion building at the heart of the hospital complex was built in 2008 and has food services and other amenities for our students, a newly developed student lounge, ample lockers and medical student call rooms for students on clinical rotations are also located at the hospital.

The student run faculty directed Cooper Rowan clinic, a free primary medical care practice serving Camden is located in the Sheridan pavilion, an outpatient building just across the street from the hospital and adjacent to the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, just north of the school is the recently opened Joint Health Sciences building.

This facility is a collaborative venture between Rowan and Rutgers University and houses our state of the art 12,000 foot Clinical Simulation Center in which students interact with both standardized and simulated patients to create a realistic environment to develop and practice clinical skills.

We hope you've enjoyed this brief overview of the outstanding facilities available to the physicians of tomorrow here at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, and we're happy to provide more in depth answers to any additional questions you may have.