CAMPUS HIGHLIGHT chicago THE CHICAGO CAMPUS THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF AT GLANCE MEDICINE CHICAGO Fewer than ten medical school The Department of Medical Education on the Chicago Campus is campuses in the country include the oldest continually operating university department devoted to the full range of health sciences scholarship in health professions education techniques. colleges, as does our Chicago Seven Chicago Campus departments of the College of Medicine Campus. The UIC colleges of rank within the top 30 departments nationally, within their discipline, medicine, public health, nursing, by amount of NIH funding—anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, dentistry, pharmacy, applied health emergency medicine, ophthalmology, pharmacology, psychiatry, and sciences, and social work are all urology. located here. There are more than 800 residents THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCES AND ASSETS and fellows in training at the University of Illinois at Chicago and The College of Medicine provides students with extensive clinical its affiliated clinical institutions. experience early. Students on the Chicago campus train with patients beginning their first year at one of the eight teaching hospitals nearby. A new learning center devoted Students and residents experience a varied range of clinical to medical student educational opportunities and patient populations at the University of Illinois programming opened in 2015, Hospitals and Clinics, the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, John H. following a $15 million renovation Stroger Hospital of Cook County, and several major local private of three floors of the historic affiliates including the hospitals of Advocate Health, the largest health College of Medicine West Tower. system in the metropolitan area. The Graham Clinical Performance Center, founded in 1957, was among the first facilities in the world WHY CHOOSE CHICAGO? to focus on performance-based clinical skills assessment. It will be The Chicago Campus serves a wide range of diverse and under-served replaced in 2019 by an $11 million patients from the neighborhoods near the Illinois Medical District, as simulation institute, now under well as other surrounding neighborhoods such as Little Italy, located construction. between the east and west campuses of UIC. The campus is located in proximity to various unique neighborhoods, such as Humboldt Park that The College of Medicine is offer distinguishing character to urban living. consistently ranked within the top The College of Medicine campus is also situated just two miles from 1/3 of US medical institutions the city’s downtown area, which offers restaurants of every style, cutting based on the amount of NIH edge music, concerts and events at Millennium Park on Chicago’s funding; UIC is one of only lakefront, State Street and Michigan Avenue shopping, esteemed art three universities in Illinois to be and science museums and so much more. considered a “highest intensity research” university by the Carnegie Convenient transportation makes it easy for students to become part Foundation for the Advancement of of this friendly, easy to adopt city; the perfect combination of big city Education. opportunity and small neighborhood quality of life. CAMPUS HIGHLIGHT peoria THE PEORIA CAMPUS THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF AT A GLANCE MEDICINE PEORIA About 240 medical students Known among students for its small class sizes and hands-on annually clerkships, the Peoria campus is located in Downtown Peoria’s Medical District within six blocks of more than 900 patient beds About 290 MDs and DOs in at its two primary clinical affiliate hospitals. 20 residency and fellowship programs Students in Peoria train within and have access to the world-class Two large healthcare systems Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center, a joint collaboration with a patient population of more with OSF HealthCare. Jump Simulation is a state-of-the-art than 2 million people medical training organization, research hub, and an international leader in simulation and innovation. World-class simulation center Diverse research opportunities: basic science and clinical THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCES AND ASSETS research, health outcomes and health economics, education, and Students in Peoria receive clinical training at two major affiliate simulation hospitals, OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center and UnityPoint Health—Methodist. Innovations in Rural & Global Medicine—an optional longitudinal, four-year track WHY CHOOSE PEORIA? Rural Student Physician Program—an optional Students say the small classes give you the chance to know the longitudinal, integrated clerkship faculty and attending physicians, and for them to know you. The classes are close-knit—peer education and peer mentoring is Engineering Internship for strong. You get the chance to experience hands-on medicine students interested in problem- across many specialties and subspecialties, often one-on-one solving and device development with attending physicians and resident physicians. The patient population is large and diverse, from urban to rural and across all Low cost-of-living ethnicities. The campus and affiliate hospitals offer a supportive Individualized social and learning environment for medical students. The city is big with professional support structure many amenities but easy to navigate and the cost of living is very affordable. Multidisciplinary research is supported and Numerous student groups and encouraged. Volunteer opportunities and student activities are activities plentiful. There’s a family-friendly feeling. CAMPUS HIGHLIGHT rockford THE ROCKFORD THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF CAMPUS AT GLANCE MEDICINE ROCKFORD Established in 1971, the College University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford offers medical education, of Medicine at Rockford has residencies and graduate education in eight departments. From biomedical since graduated more than science to surgery, each department boasts top faculty and groundbreaking 1,800 physicians, practicing in research that attract some of the best scientists and physicians in the country. The Rockford campus also takes pride in its world-renowned National Center all major specialties throughout for Rural Health Professionals which focuses on a clearly defined mission and Illinois and around the country. serves to broaden our ability to accomplish goals which would be more difficult The campus is particularly to tackle within the confines of a single department. well known as home to The National Center for Rural Health THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCES AND ASSETS Professions and the Rural The college of Medicine at Rockford offers the most extensive longitudinal Medical Education (RMED) ambulatory experience of any medical school in the country. Starting in the M2 Program. RMED trains medical year, our students are assigned to clinics for intensive, hands-on clerkships, students to meet the specific where they work closely with patients in a clinical setting. needs of rural communities. Through the National Center for Rural Health Professions (NCRHP) the The faculty based in Rockford College of Medicine works to improve health care in rural communities through numbers more than 470, in all education, evaluation and research. Students in our Rural Medical Education (RMED) Program are exposed to a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary curriculum major clinical specialties as well that prepares them to meet the needs of this underserved population. as educators and researchers in the biomedical sciences. WHY CHOOSE ROCKFORD? In the fall of 2017, the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Since 1971, the College of Medicine at Rockford has focused on building an Rockford (UI-COMR) expanded academic medical institution committed to education and advocacy, dedicated to research and continuous innovation, and centered on clinical service in the to provide all four years of surrounding communities. medical education in Rockford. The college transformed the The faculty at the College of Medicine at Rockford has pioneered cutting- edge contributions to the practice of medicine through groundbreaking curriculum, recruited new research, from studies on cancer and neuroendocrinology in the Department faculty and staff, and renovated of Biomedical Sciences to investigations of community-based health initiatives facilities. The impact of the M1 by the National Center for Rural Health Professions and the Division of Health capital project spending from Policy & Social Science Research. Our Office of Research offers extensive 2016–2035 resulted in added research support to faculty and students by mentoring and connecting revenue of about $33.9 million— students to researchers, consultation on study design, grant writing assistance, equivalent to creating 475 new statistical assistance, guidance with IRB applications and approvals and jobs. resources for potential funding mechanisms. Today, the College is a regional health sciences center. The campus is home to the regional College of Pharmacy program, the UIC College of Nursing advanced degree program, the master’s in medical biotechnology program, a public health certificate and Health Systems Research. RESEARCH Our research goals are broad and ambitious, as are the needs and hopes of our patients. We aim to advance treatment now, and health in the future, by pursuing both fundamental insights and their application to the practice of medicine. Investigators across the College of Medicine are doing cutting-edge research in clinical medicine, in basic