Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine (AUFOM) was first established as Antalya Faculty of Medicine, attached to Ankara University in 1973.  Its first students were trained at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine untill 1977. Four years later, basic medical sciences education of its students was  moved to its own building, the Topcular Building, Topcular, Antalya, in 1977.  Clinical medical sciences courses and clerkships were later started to be taught at its own teaching hospital in Kepez, Antalya, in 1982. This first teaching hospital  had been previously used as state sanatorium before 1982.  The school was renamed as Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine after the establishment of Akdeniz University in 1982.  Outpatient clinics were moved to the main campus in 1988 and the Dean’s office and basic clinical sciences were later moved to the main campus in 1991.  The first 425 bed university hospital  was opened in the campus in 1997 and all the inpatient services were then moved into this new hospital building from the first teaching hospital at Kepez. The total bed capacity of the teaching hospitals has increased to 600 beds after the openning of the 150 bed Emergency, Trauma and Organ Transplantation Hospital in 1999.  AUFOM’s clinical departments are based in these teaching hospitals now, and the faculty teach and provide outpatient services and inpatient care in these new buildings located in the main campus. Today,  we carry out teaching activities and do research and provide outstanding service to the region equal to the Western standards in a total of 160,000 m2 space; 125,000 m2 already completed, 35,000 m2 still under construction. Basic medical sciences occupy 15,000 m2 space in the campus.  Problem Based Learning (PBL) and interactive teaching methods in small group discussions are used to teach our students theorical lectures and laboratory practices in the most state of the art technology enhanced classrooms and laboratories. We use both vertically and horizantally fully integrated curriculum as the system to teach medicine to our 780 students including those who are currently enrolled in the intensive English training course as a one year preparotory class.  There are  253 academic staff who are comprised of  99 professors, 69 associate professors, 62 assistant professors, 23 instructors and 461 research assistants. There is no shortage of academic staff in any of the  disciplines. The student:faculty ratio is 3.09:1 and inpatinet bed:student ratio in stage III, IV, V, and VI is 1.3. These numbers are comparable to the international standards. The education in medical schools should be dynamic to provide leadership and services in curriculum development and integration; scheduling; medical education research; and faculty development. In this respect, we have established Office of Medical Education and have invested a lot within the last 4 years to renovate our undergraduate and graduate medical education. As medical education moves toward significantly increased student-centered, competency and community-based training and medical students are placed in primary care preceptorships, Computer Resources with high speed Internet connection, technology enhanced classrooms, the Professional Skills Teaching and Assessment Center within office of medical education, and the teaching hospital equipped with the state of the art technology help to ensure consistency in learning outcomes. The administration is committed to assisting faculty improve their teaching and other education-related skills in order to more effectively deliver the curriculum to medical students. Other services available include, coducting of teachers training, curriculum development, and assesment workshops, faculty evaluation with confidential feedback, reviews of tests, assistance with teaching-related assessement activities, other education-related consultation. To meet the challenges created by the rapid development of new technologies in the 21st century and new understanding in medical science, the faculty are doing their best to train the physician of the future.