College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign

The College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign is a graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.The UIC College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign is located at the original campus of the University (with 42,000 students, undergraduate and graduate) and offers a complete four-year medical education program leading to an MD degree. The first-year basic medical science program at Urbana-Champaign also serves those students who will complete their last three years of medical school at Peoria or Rockford.

The College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign opened in 1971 to provide a year of basic medical science education to students who would complete their training elsewhere in the University of Illinois system. Over the years enrollment in the first-year program has grown from 13 to 125 students, the number presently enrolled. In 1978, the program was expanded to include the remaining three years of undergraduate medical education, and each year 25 medical students (mostly students in the Medical Scholars Program) remain in Urbana-Champaign to complete their MD degree. The College of Medicine had its last accreditation review in November, 2001, at which time the College received a full eight-year accreditation

Faculty
The faculty of the School of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign includes Nobel prize winner Paul Lauterbur, who is credited with the invention of MRI with Peter Mansfield at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/03/1006nobel.html

Facilities
The Urbana-Champaign campus of the College of Medicine features world-renowned faculty and facilities, and an innovative medical curriculum. Major clinical teaching facilities provide a diverse environment for clinical education. The clinical facilities include Carle Foundation Hospital, Provena-Covenant Medical Center, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Hospital in Danville, Illinois. All have been generous in their support of the College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, including the provision of clinical education centers at each institution.

Departments
Basic Sciences Departments


 * Department of Biochemistry
 * Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
 * Department of Medical Information Science
 * Department of Microbiology
 * Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
 * Department of Pathology
 * Department of Pharmacology

Clinical Sciences Departments


 * Department of Family Medicine
 * Department of Internal Medicine
 * Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
 * Department of Pediatrics
 * Department of Psychiatry
 * Department of Surgery
 * Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program
 * Oral and Maxillofacial Residency Program