Starfleet Medical Academy

Starfleet Medical Academy was the medical school associated with Starfleet Medical and Starfleet Academy. Students wishing to become physicians within Starfleet could apply to the Academy. 
===Student life===
As a student at medical school, Leonard McCoy used to play practical jokes with trick drinking glasses that would dribble the beverage as the person drank from it. ()
Julian Bashir designed a candy bar that was superior in food value to that of Starfleet combat rations during his time at the Academy. ()
Bashir was also the of the Academy racquetball team. That team won the Sector Championships during his final year against a Vulcan rival. ()
===Curriculum===
During their first year, medical students were taught that medical tricorders were very accurate with living people but not so with the deceased. ()
The Academy offered engineering extension courses to interested students who wished to supplement their medical training. ()
One 24th century professor at the Medical Academy taught that the brain had a "spark of life" that couldn't be replicated. Bashir recalled this comment when facing the question of replacing parts of Bareil Antos' brain with artificial implants. ()
===Final exams and graduation===
The final graduation exams for Starfleet Medical Academy included an oral exam. Julian Bashir mistook a preganglionic fiber for a postganglianic nerve during his oral exam. As a result, the valedictorian of his class was Elizabeth Lense. ()
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