HUCM is located at the Howard University Health Sciences Center in Washington, D.C., and it was founded in 1868 in response to the growing population of the city.
Founders of Howard University appreciated the urgent need for medical education in the District of Columbia after the Civil War.
[2] The civil war had just ended, and freed African American people were migrating to the nation's capital in large numbers.
[2] The opening exercise for the newly created medical department was held at the First Congregational Church of Christ on November 5, 1868.
The members of the new association were, William Bennit, James Bowen, George Brooks, Danforth Nichols, and Joseph A. Sladen.
[5] In 2024, Howard University College of Medicine received a $175 million gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies to support the school’s endowment.
The community surrounding Howard University Hospital under-served and is promoted as an excellent teaching environment for the HUCM students.
Senior investigators such as Dr. Thomas O. Obisesan guide teams of students, trainees, and junior faculty in research on high-impact diseases such as dementia.
The team from the college consists of physicians from the departments of obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, pediatrics, pathology, and anatomy.