The school owns UC Irvine Medical Center and is affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Orange County.

[citation needed] Although the School of Medicine joined UC Irvine in 1967, its history goes back more than 100 years.

Over the next three years, its administrators worked with the University of California to have it become the third UC medical school, joining those on the San Francisco and Los Angeles campuses.

[citation needed] The School of Medicine consists of 19 clinical and 6 basic science departments[2] and has several graduate degree-granting programs.

In 2010, UC Irvine opened its $40.5 million, 65,000-square-foot (6,000 m2) on-campus medical education building that provides a simulation training center along with clinical laboratories and telemedicine stations.