University of Illinois College of Medicine
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The University of Illinois College of Medicine is the country's largest medical school with more than 2600 medical students and residents, and offers medical education programs at four geographic Illinois sites: Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, and Urbana-Champaign. The Chicago site, located at Polk and Wood, functions as the main campus.
The College of Medicine matriculated its first class in 1882 and is now part of one of the largest health sciences centers in the country with a collective 300 million dollars in research grants.
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[edit] History
Although six medical schools were already in existence in Chicago by the 1880s, four physicians: Charles Warrington Earle, Abraham Reeves Jackson, Daniel Atkinson King Steele, Samuel McWilliams and Leonard St. John, decided to open their own proprietary medical school. They pooled together $5,541.78, purchased a piece of land, and secured a certificate of incorporation. The new school, located on Harrison and Honroe streets, was named The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago (commonly referred to as P&S) Doors opened on September 26, 1882, with a class of 100 students and a faculty of 27 physicians. [1].
At the West Side Free Dispensary, located on the first floor, students in small groups could observe pathological cases and their treatment. Patients were classified according to the affected area or system of the body heart, lungs, eyes, ears, skin or nervous system. The dispensary also furnished material for college clinics in medicine, surgery, gynecology, obstetrics, ophthalmology, neurology and pediatrics. In its first three years, the dispensary registered 20,353 patients and dispensed 17,347 prescriptions.
In 1913, after years of negotiations, the P&G faculty and alumni donated stock to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees to establish the University of Illinois College of Medicine. In 1970, the Illinois legislature voted to expand the college to three additional sites: Peoria, Rockford and Urbana to provide wider access to care and increase opportunities for Illinois residents to attend medical school.
[edit] Present
The College of Medicine has a total faculty in all the sites of approximately 4,000, counting regular faculty and affiliates.
The surrounding health science center, of which University of Illinois College of Medicine is a part, also comprises the University of Illinois Medical Center, The College of Nursing, The College of Pharmacy, The College of Dentistry, and The College of Public Health and Applied Health Sciences.
[edit] Research
UIC Receives $9.6 Million Grant for Autism Research
The University of Illinois College of Medicine Receives $5.2 Million Grant from the National Institute of Health for a Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center (2008)
UIC Unveils World's Most Powerful MRI for Decoding the Human Brain
[edit] Notable alumni
Hirsch, Charles,'58 MD, New York City Chief medical Examiner.[2]
Jonasson, Olga, '58 MD, Professor of Surgery, UIC
Mason, Terry, '78 MD, Physician and Director Chicago Board of Health
Richmond, Julius, '39 MD, Physician and Founder of Headstart, Former US Surgeon General
[edit] Innovations and Firsts
• Ranks in top 50 U.S. universities in federal research funding
• Graduates one in six Illinois physicians
• Ranks No. 3 in U.S. for African-American enrollment, No. 1 for Latino enrollment with the assistance of the Hispanic Center of Excellence in Medince, and No. 4 for Asian enrollment
• Urbana ranks No. 3 in U.S. for largest Medical Scholars program, offering joint degrees in more than 35 disciplines
• Largest medical school in the country with more than 2,600 medical students and residents on four sites
• 70 staff physicians recognized in Castle Connollys Americas Top Doctors and the Best Doctors directory (2006)
• Graduates two-thirds of practicing Illinois minority physicians
• Recipient of Women in Medicine Excellence Award (2006)
• Rockford designated as the nations first and only National Center for Rural Health Professions (2006)
• First to perform robotic hepatectomy in U.S. (2005)[3]
• Peoria’s Donald E. Rager, MD, Clinical Skills Laboratory offers students and medical personnel training in the university’s first human-patient simulation-based laboratory (2005)
• Home to the worlds highest-field human MRI (2004)[4]
• Urbana’s Paul Lauterbur shares Nobel Prize in Physiology for Medicine for developing a way to create noninvasive images of the human body with nuclear magnetic resonance (2003) [5]
• First to implant artificial retina in human eye (2000)
• Designated a National Center of Excellence in Womens Health (1998)[6]
• First to perform living-donor kidney/pancreas transplant in Illinois (1997)
• One of the nations oldest and most respected emergency medicine residency programs (1978)
• First to install ophthalmic laser device in Illinois (1970)
• First to successfully separate twins conjoined by the head (1952)
• First to establish a center for craniofacial abnormalities (1949)
• First to use electroencephalograms for clinical applications (1949)
• First to install beta electron accelerator for medical applications (1940s)
[edit] References
- ^ Patricia Spain Ward, Scope 1981-82 Centennial Special, Volume 8 no. 3 as cited in Ward Patricia, Anderson Truman, Parson Elizabeth, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, 125 Years of College Medicine, University of Illinois, 2007
- ^ Charles Hirsch MD receives Distinguished Alumnus Award at 2003 Commencement, University of Illinois College of Medicine. Accessed September 16, 2008.
- ^ Medical News Today
- ^ Science Daily
- ^ Nobel Prize In Medicine
- ^ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women's Health
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