Chartered in 1807 as the first public medical school in the United States, the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) is a leading academic institution with 43 academic departments, over 3,000 faculty members, and an operating budget exceeding $1 billion. It educates more than 2,500 students, residents, and fellows, and conducts nearly $450 million in extramural research annually through its three research institutes: the Institute of Human Virology, the Institute for Genome Sciences, and the Institute for Global Health.