Accreditation

The Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). In 2016, Katz received a full eight-year accreditation from LCME and is now preparing for its 2025 re-accreditation. Katz was founded in 1901 as Pennsylvania’s first co-educational medical school and has been accredited since before the LCME was founded in 1942.    

Students who receive their medical education at an LCME-accredited school, such as Katz, are certified as having completed their requirements for a medical degree. This allows them to obtain a license to work as a resident under the supervision of a licensed physician in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.   

Visit the LCME website for a full list of accredited programs. For more information about Katz’s LCME accreditation, please email [insert email address] 

Temple University Hospital is an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited sponsoring institution. 

Program Contact 

Dr. Denise Salerno
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education
Email: Denise.Salerno@tuhs.temple.edu 
Phone: 856-296-8507 

Program Outcomes 

MD program graduates typically continue their training in Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited residencies and fellowships in all disciplines of medicine throughout the United States. Following residency, graduates enter careers in academic medicine, private practice, research and industry. 

Temple graduates secure impressive residencies, attributable to our school’s reputation for providing superior clinical training. Of recent graduating classes, most seniors chose university hospitals or major affiliates of a university hospital for residencies. 

About 40% of Temple graduates pursue residencies in internal medicine, family medicine or pediatrics, which can lead to primary care careers. The remainder of students pursue specialties and subspecialties. Graduate residencies span from coast-to-coast and border-to-border.  

2023 Residency Match Results 

Top Specialties 

• 41: Internal medicine
• 19: Emergency medicine
• 17: Surgery
• 13 : Psychiatry
• 11: Anesthesiology
• 11: Pediatrics
• 10 : Family medicine 
• 9: Obstetrics and gynecology
• 7: Orthopedic surgery
• 6: Diagnostic radiology
• 5: Physical medicine and rehabilitation
• 4: Neurology 

Top Institutions 

• 21: Temple University Hospital
• 12: St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem
• 9: Thomas Jefferson University
• 7: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 
• 6: CMSRU/Cooper University Hospital 
• 5: Johns Hopkins Hospital 
• 5: Rush University Medical Center 
• 4: Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai Hospital 
• 4: Montefiore Medical Center, Einstein
• 4: St. Luke's Hospital, Anderson
• 4: University of North Carolina Hospitals
• 4: University of Chicago Medical Center