The University of California Davis School of Medicine is one of five University of California medical schools in the state of California, associated with UC Davis. Founded in 1966, the UC Davis School of Medicine graduated its first class of physicians in 1972. The school maintains research facilities on the Davis campus while the majority of the school's teaching and clinical space is located in Sacramento, 17 miles to the east of the Davis campus. With the December 2006 opening of its new Education Building, the school recently transitioned all medical school classes to the Sacramento... campus. Research activities will continue at both campuses for the foreseeable future. The school gained national attention when an applicant challenged the school's affirmative action admissions policy. The Supreme Court of the United States, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 , ruled that the applicant had unconstitutionally been denied admission, and Bakke was admitted.
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