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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, housing all college wide administrative offices.
The College of Medicine matriculated its first class in 1882 and has since grown to incorporate clinics and add buildings, eventually becoming 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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In the late 1800s, disease in Chicago was rampant; as was common in the Chicago area at that time. One in six children died of diphtheria, cholera or dysentery, and the role of bacteria in disease transmission was still a new discovery1. Although six medical schools were already in existence, 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. The gentlemen 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&G) Doors opened on September 26, 1882, with a class of 100 students and a faculty of 27 physicians.
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.
Other charitable organizations created in Chicago around the same time included the new Hull-House, a social services institution opened by Jane Addams in 1889. The original house remains as part of the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, along with the restored settlement dining hall. 13
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. Their purpose was to provide access to care for all citizens in the state and increase opportunities for Illinois residents to attend medical school.
The College of Medicine maintains an internationally renowned faculty of approximately 4,000 across the sites. Various types of professional service are rendered by its physicians, such as primary care, specialty practice, research, teaching, preventative medicine, and administration. Medical students have the opportunity to become familiar with several professional roles and to choose the role best suited for their individual goals and abilities.
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.
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• 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. 4 for Latino enrollment, 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)
• 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)
• Urbana’s Paul Lauterbur shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology for Medicine for developing a way to create noninvasive images of the human body with nuclear magnetic resonance (2003)
• First to implant artificial retina in human eye (2000)
• Designated a National Center of Excellence in Womens Health (1998)
• 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)
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