University of Illinois College of Medicine
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| Established | September 26, 1882 |
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| Type | Public |
| University | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Dean | Joseph A. Flaherty |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois USA |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.medicine.uic.edu |
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The University of Illinois College of Medicine offers a four-year program leading to the MD degree at four different sites in Illinois: Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, and Urbana–Champaign.
In 2011, enrollment of medical students in the University of Illinois system totaled 1,290 according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. [1]
The College of Medicine has a total faculty in all sites of approximately 4,000,[when?] counting regular faculty and affiliates.
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[edit] History
The College of Medicine, originally an independent institution, opened on September 26, 1882 as the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago (P&S)[2] with 100 students and a faculty of 30. Five years later, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois approved a contract of affiliation whereby the university would lease P&S as its Department of Medicine. The arrangement continued until 1912 when there was a nine-month hiatus in the affiliation due to a lack of legislative support. It was only after the faculty and alumni of P&S bought up all shares of the school's stock and presented them to the Board of Trustees as a gift that the school officially became the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois in March 1913.[3]
[edit] Chicago Campus
In addition to serving as the Chicago program site, the Chicago campus of the College of Medicine is the administrative home for the dean and all other college-wide officers. Located on the Near West Side in one of the world’s largest medical center districts[citation needed], the college is part of the University of Illinois Medical Center,which includes the colleges of Applied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, and the School of Public Health.
The College of Medicine's Chicago campus sits on a plot of land once occupied by West Side Park, the former home of the Chicago Cubs.
[edit] Curriculum
In addition to a traditional medical program, the college of medicine offers two physician-scientist training programs; the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) in Chicago, an NIH-funded program that offers full tuition benefits and a stipend to the awarded students and the Medical Scholars Program (MSP) in Urbana-Champaign.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Charles Hirsch (MD 1958) — New York City Chief Medical Examiner[4]
- Olga Jonasson (MD 1958) — chief of surgery, Cook County Hospital (1977); first woman to chair an academic department of surgery (Ohio State University, 1987)[5]
- Terry Mason (MD 1978) — physician and Director, Chicago Board of Health
- Julius B. Richmond (MD 1939) — physician; founder of the Head Start Program; former U.S. Surgeon General
- Steve Hanauer World Leading Authority on IBD disease, Chairman of GI at University of Chicago
[edit] Notable faculty
- Ananda Chakrabarty, Professor, 1979–present (Chicago) — Development and patent of a genetically engineered Pseudomonas bacteria
- Paul Lauterbur, Professor, 1985–1990 (Chicago), 1985–2007 (Urbana-Champaign) — Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 for development of MRI
[edit] References
- ^ "Report Explanation Enrollment Counts: Source: LCME Part II Annual Medical School Questionnaire". Medical School Profile System. AAMC. https://services.aamc.org/mspsreports/index.cfm?fuseaction=CustomizeReports.rankTABLE&ReportID=3&SubReportID=1. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
- ^ http://www.medicine.uic.edu/about/history/
- ^ http://uillinoismedcenter.org/content.cfm/history/
- ^ Charles Hirsch MD receives Distinguished Alumnus Award at 2003 Commencement, University of Illinois College of Medicine. Accessed September 16, 2008.
- ^ "Olga Jonasson". Changing the Face of Medicine. Bethesda, Maryland: United States National Library of Medicine. 2004-03-14. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_174.html. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
[edit] External links
- The University of Illinois College of Medicine — official website
- Composite images of the graduating classes - digital images from the UIC Library collections
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