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. (TAS: "The Practical Joker")
Julian Bashir designed a candy bar that was superior in food value to that of Starfleet combat rations during his time at the Academy. (DS9: "The Siege")
Bashir was also the captain of the Academy racquetball team. That team won the Sector Championships during his final year against a Vulcan rival. (DS9: "Rivals")
Curriculum[]
During their first year, medical students were taught that medical tricorders were very accurate with living people but not so with the deceased. (DS9: "The Passenger")
The Academy offered engineering extension courses to interested students who wished to supplement their medical training. (DS9: "Armageddon Game")
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. (DS9: "Life Support")
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. (DS9: "Explorers")
External link[]
- Starfleet Medical Academy at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works