Welcome to the City of Medicine Academy
CMA is preparing for an outside assessment for our strengths and areas needing improvement. Please provide us with your valuable input. This survey will be available January 24 - January 31, 2012.
http://goo.gl/ijK11 parent assessment (Parents Only)
http://goo.gl/nLBHw student assessment (Students Only)

About the Academy
The City of Medicine Academy is designed for highly motivated Durham high school students who are ready to undertake serious academic work and career-related internships. We provide a four-year health career curriculum for students interested in pursuing health care careers. It is expected that these students will be able to enter college with advanced credits and earn industry standard certification.
Students graduating from City of Medicine Academy will be able to:
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- Make health career decisions suited to their individual needs, aptitudes, abilities and career objectives.
- Develop a pre-professional and pre-technical foundation that supports advanced education and/or entry-level employment.
- Develop a foundation required for employment in a changing health care environment including:
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- Analysis and problem solving
- Communications skills
- Professional behavior & ethics
- Science & Mathematics
- Teamwork
- Technology applications
- Establish healthy lifestyle behaviors
2011-12 Student Calendar
2011-12 Student Handbook
2011-12 School Supply List
Prospective Students & Parents
click here for
the 2012-13 application
Parent Letter-Spanish
Parent Letter-English
CMA Report Card (click here)
Each school’s Report Card includes school contact information (principal's name, address, etc.); school and class/course sizes; student performance data (ABCs performance and disaggregated performance); school performance data (ABCs designations and federal No Child Left Behind designations); teacher qualifications and credentials; statistics on instructional resources (books and computers); and school safety figures. Spanish versions of the Report Card Snapshots and their supporting guides can be printed from the NC School Report Cards website.
Required Summer Reading 2011
Class of 2012 - Mountain beyond Mountains: Health the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer: Author: Tracy Kidder
Class of 2014 -
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise to Fulfill a
Dream: Authors: Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck
Hunt
Class of
2015 -
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Author: Ben
Carson
























