University of Montpellier School of Medicine

The University of Montpellier School of Medicine is a French medical school, part of the University of Montpellier, which trains future medical and healthcare professionals and researchers in the field of life sciences. Founded in 1220, it is the oldest university in the world in terms of medicine, in the legal and conceptual sense of the term “university” as defined in 13th-century Europe, in the same way that the universities of Paris, Oxford, and Bologna are the oldest in terms of theology, liberal arts (Paris), and law (Oxford and Bologna). It is the oldest medical school in the world still in operation. It celebrated its 800th anniversary throughout 2020 and 2021 and was the subject of a national commemorative postage stamp. Unique in France, Montpellier Medical School has agreements with two university hospitals (CHU): Montpellier and Nîmes. The faculty is located in the city center of Montpellier, with historic buildings (rue de l'École-de-Médecine, biology institute: boulevard Henri-IV), close to the hospitals north of Montpellier (medical teaching unit, university clinical research institute, new Arnaud de Villeneuve Health Campus: avenue du Doyen-Giraud), and has a branch in Nîmes (chemin du Carreau-de-Lanes), close to the Carémeau University Hospital. Its motto refers to the Hippocratic tradition that formed the basis of medical teaching when it was founded: Olim Cous nunc Monspeliensis Hippocrates (“Once Hippocrates was from Kos, now he is from Montpellier”).

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