• The Medical College of Virginia was founded in 1838.

• The first Professor of Psychiatry was appointed in 1930.

• The Psychiatry Residency was first accredited in 1954 and has been an education leader for more than 40 years.

• In 2012, The Virginia Treatment Center for Children, the child and adolescent division of the Department of Psychiatry, celebrates 50 years of success in the field.

• In 2012, U.S. News and World Report’s Best Hospitals edition ranked the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center the No. 1 hospital in Virginia.
  
  
  

Monumental Church on MCV's campus, today