2020 OU College of Medicine Facts-At-A-Glance Brochure
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FACTS AT A GLANCE University of Oklahoma complete their education on the College of Medicine Oklahoma City campus, and about 25 A vibrant medical school is critical for are in Tulsa. Oklahoma’s continuing development and success in medical education, In addition to conferring the Doctor of biomedical research and health Medicine degree, the OU College of care. The OU College of Medicine Medicine offers a Physician Assistant is dedicated to being a leader and program and two dual degree advancing the frontiers in each of contents these areas. programs – M.D./Ph.D. and M.D./MPH. The College of Medicine is at the College of Medicine students receive heart of OU Medicine Inc., which an education that is steeped in University of Oklahoma College of Medicine ............................................................. 1 became a locally owned and operated the triad of academic medicine – About the Executive Dean ............................…………………………………………………….....… 3 nonprofit corporation in early 2018 education, research and patient care – Graduate Degree Programs ......................…………………………………………………………….. 4 that is governed by the University of and enter their careers well-positioned Patient Care .......................................................................................................................... 5 Oklahoma, the University Hospitals to make a difference in people’s lives The Children’s Hospital ...................…………………………………………………………................ 5 Authority and Trust, and a community through both skill and compassion OU Medical Center ................………………………………………………………...……….................. 6 board. Now under one local umbrella, Clinical Centers of Excellence ................…………………………………………......................... 6 the hospital system and clinical Fast Facts • Founded in 1900. Affiliated Health Institutions ....................…………………………………………......................... 7 practice works in concert with the • Nearly 1,350 faculty members, Resreach ................…………………………………………............................................................... 7 college’s educational and research nearly 1,000 of which are full time. The University of Oklahoma ................………………………………………............................... 8 missions. • Composed of 17 clinical Contacts ................………………………………………………………………………............................... 9 departments, four basic science The College of Medicine has two departments, and numerous centers campuses – the main campus at and institutes that offer research and clinical programs for various the OU Health Sciences Center in medical disciplines. There also are Oklahoma City, and a branch campus, eight clinical departments at the the OU-TU School of Community Tulsa branch campus. Medicine, at the Schusterman Center • Part of the Oklahoma Health Center, in Tulsa. The School of Community a 200-acre campus that includes Medicine is a partnership with the not only the OU Health Sciences Center but such related entities as University of Tulsa. In spring 2019, the OU Medical Center, VA Medical the School of Community Medicine Center, Dean McGee Eye Institute, graduated its first class to have spent Oklahoma Medical Research all four years of medical training Foundation and the Oklahoma in Tulsa. Each year, the College Blood Institute. of Medicine admits 165 incoming students. Approximately 140 students 2020 COM Facts at A Glance 1 About the Executive Dean the College of Medicine’s Academy of Teaching Scholars and has received the academy’s M. Dewayne Andrews Excellence in Teaching Award. Zubialde has been active in state and community service, including serving on the Health Workforce Subcommittee of the Governor’s Council on Workforce and Economic Development. For more than 25 years, he has served the city’s underserved patient population as a volunteer provider at the Good Shepherd Clinic John P. Zubialde, M.D., was appointed in downtown Oklahoma City. Executive Dean of the OU College of Medicine in May 2019. Zubialde completed both his medical degree Educational Programs and residency in family medicine at the • 2019-2020 total enrollment: 658 University of New Mexico School of medical students, 216 PA students, Medicine. After residency, he served in 32 master’s students and 111 Ph.D. the United States Air Force, attaining students. the rank of Major and serving as Chief • The medical school preclinical of Family Medicine Services at the U.S. curriculum was completely Air Force Clinic and Hospital at Tinker revamped in 2010 to an integrated, Air Force Base. organ systems-based program of study. In 1991, he joined the OU College of • All medical students must meet six Medicine faculty and holds the rank competency-based educational of Professor in the Department of program objectives, including Family and Preventive Medicine. He medical knowledge, patient care, served as program director of the OU communication, professionalism, Family Medicine Residency from 1994 practice-based learning and to 2000, then as Associate Dean for improvement, and systems-based Graduate Medical Education from practice. Students at the School 2000 until August 2015. He was then of Community Medicine in Tulsa appointed Senior Associate Dean for meet a seventh objective related to the College of Medicine. In July 2018, community medicine. he began serving as Interim Executive • The college offers an Dean. Zubialde has researched, interdisciplinary training program written about and presented in which students from seven OU internationally on topics ranging colleges and 13 disciplines learn from care of the complex patient to how to deliver patient care as a leadership development to health team. systems planning. He is a member of • Many medical students take part in 2 2020 COM Facts at A Glance 2020 COM Facts at A Glance 3 the OU Community Health Alliance, medical student class must be • Pathology through which they provide patient Oklahoma residents. • Pediatrics ** care and education at charitable • 755 residents and fellows training in • Physiology health clinics in Oklahoma County. 74 specialties and subspecialties. • Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences ** • Oklahoma retains 49.7 percent of its • In 2020, students scored higher • Radiation Oncology medical graduates, compared to the than the national average on • Radiological Sciences national average of 46.3 percent. USMLE Step II-CK. • Surgery ** The state also retains 51.3 percent • 2020 AAMC Missions Management • Urology of physicians who complete their Tool, 3-year rolling average, OU *Tulsa SCM Department residencies in the state, while the College of Medicine scores in the **OKC and Tulsa SCM Department U.S. average is 47.1 percent. 75.1 90th percentile on the question, percent of physicians who complete “Overall, I am satisfied with the Patient Care both medical school and residency quality of my medical education.” in Oklahoma stay in the state, OU Physicians • Oklahoma’s largest physician group; compared to the U.S. average of Graduate Degree 67.3 percent. composed of more than 710 clinical Programs • As of 2019, 3,955 College of faculty The Children’s Hospital Medicine alumni physicians work in Master’s and/or Ph.D. degrees are • Almost every adult and children’s • State’s most comprehensive offered in these areas: Oklahoma. The number of alumni specialty offered pediatric hospital just for kids • Biomedical Sciences practicing across the United States • OU Physicians ranked in top 15 • Oklahoma’s only dedicated • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is 7,398. percent in the nation in patient neonatal helicopter and ambulance • Cell Biology • A state-of-the-art Clinical Skills experience • Oklahoma City’s only 24-hour • Microbiology and Immunology Education and Testing Center allows • Extensive training provided pediatric emergency department • Neuroscience students to practice skills and for many of the region’s future • Level I pediatric trauma center • Pathology patient safety on high-tech robotic physicians • Oklahoma’s most comprehensive • Physiology mannequins. In the same facility, • Provides patients a full-range pediatric cancer program and only students practice their diagnostic medical home environment pediatric stem cell transplant unit • Primary care skills and bedside manner with Departments • Comprehensive care for mothers • Treatment of complex cases and “standardized patients” who role- • Anesthesiology and their newborns in the Women’s rare conditions play symptoms and emotions. • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Newborn Center • More than 660,000 outpatient visits • A robust Humanities in Medicine • Cell Biology • Comprehensive prenatal services annually program seeks to keep students • Dermatology from low- to high-risk births • Additional 350,000 patients seen connected to their altruistic reasons • Emergency Medicine * • State’s only pediatric cardiac by OU Physicians at the VA Medical for entering medical school. • Family and Preventive Medicine ** intensive care unit, newly renovated Center and roughly 25,000 at the • Two capstone courses – at the end • Medical Informatics * and expanded Residents’ Clinic at OU Medical of the second and fourth years of • Medicine ** • Oklahoma’s highest level and Center medical school – reinforce material • Microbiology and Immunology largest neonatal intensive care unit • Physicians engaged in research to at key stages of the curriculum. • Neurology • Home to Children’s Heart Center, discover health care innovations • Students may apply to spend • Neurosurgery performing