FACTS AT A GLANCE University of complete their education on the College of Medicine 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 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 • 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 more pediatric cardiac and pioneer procedures a portion of their fourth years • Obstetrics and Gynecology ** surgeries than anywhere in the • OU Physicians accredited by the studying and working in one of • Ophthalmology state and advancing treatments Accreditation Association for several international locations. • Orthopedic Surgery and not available anywhere else in the Ambulatory Health Care Inc. and is • More than 220 endowed chairs and Rehabilitation region. part of the Patient-Centered Medical professorships. • Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Home Program • At least 75 percent of the entering Surgery

4 2020 COM Facts at A Glance 2020 COM Facts at A Glance 5 those who suffer from memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.

The Department of Urology played a lead role in an international clinical trial that proved the effectiveness of relugolix, an oral medication for metastatic prostate cancer, the first treatment advance for that disease in many years.

The OU College of Medicine was OU Medical Center awarded an $11 million federal grant • State’s only comprehensive to create the Oklahoma Center for allogeneic (using donors) FACT- Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunity, accredited bone marrow transplant a hub for research into many types of program infections and how the immune system • Comprehensive Stroke Center and recognizes and destroys them, or first certified stroke center in the succumbs to them. state • Children’s Diabetes Center • OU Medicine Cardiovascular • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Stephenson Cancer Center has been Institute, a center of excellence • Oklahoma Center for Bleeding and selected to join additional networks specializing in diagnosing, Clotting Disorders within the National Cancer Institute preventing and treating disorders • Pediatric Pulmonary and Cystic that will expand clinical trials in two and illnesses affecting the heart and Fibrosis Center areas – early-phase drugs to treat • Comprehensive Oklahoma Program cardiovascular system • Spina Bifida Clinic cancer and therapies to prevent for Epilepsy • Comprehensive adult medical and • The Jimmy Everest Center for cancer. • Dean McGee Eye Institute surgical services Cancer and Blood Disorders in • Heart and Lung Center • The college’s major teaching Children • Oklahoma Ear Institute hospital • Organ Transplant Services • Only Level 1 Trauma Center in • OU Breast Institute Affiliated Health Oklahoma • OU Vascular Center Institutions • State’s most experienced organ • OU Voice Disorders Center • Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs transplant team • Prenatal Diagnostic Center Medical Center • OU Medical Center Edmond • Senior Health Center • Dean McGee Eye Institute community hospital • Sleep Disorder Center • Hillcrest Medical Center, Tulsa • The Stroke Center • Saint Francis Hospital, Tulsa Clinical Centers of • Women’s Health Center • St. John Medical Center, Tulsa Excellence • The Women’s and Newborn Center • Peggy and Charles Stephenson • Center on Child Abuse and Neglect Research Cancer Center • Child Life Department An OU College of Medicine geriatrician • Harold Hamm Diabetes Center • Child Study Center is leading a $3.75 million federal grant • Bone Marrow Transplant Unit • Children’s Stem Cell Transplant Unit to enhance the care and support of

6 2020 COM Facts at A Glance 2020 COM Facts at A Glance 7 Researchers from the OU College of As part of an academic medical Medicine joined OU Norman campus center campus with seven health- researchers to launch the company related colleges, medical students Excitant Therapeutics. Its aim is to have the opportunity to engage in commercialize research conducted at interdisciplinary research. the OU College of Medicine into a new treatment for diabetic retinopathy, the The University of most common cause of vision loss. Researchers from the OU College of Oklahoma Medicine joined with OU Medicine Created by the Oklahoma Territorial and the Oklahoma Medical Research Legislature in 1890, the University Foundation to create the Oklahoma of Oklahoma is a doctoral degree- COVID-19 PCR Test. The test avoids granting research university serving many supply chain issues and analyzes the educational, cultural, economic and patient specimens efficiently and health-care needs of the state, region accurately. and nation. The Norman campus serves as home to all of the university’s An OU College of Medicine researcher academic programs except health- launched a collaboration with a related fields. The OU Health Sciences biotechnology company to work Center, which is located in Oklahoma Contacts toward a vaccine for COVID-19. The City, is one of only four comprehensive project focuses on helping the body’s academic health centers in the nation Admissions: protective immune cells target and kill with seven professional colleges. (405) 271-2331 virus-infected cells. Both the Norman and Health Sciences Center campuses offer programs at Student Affairs: The U.S. Health Resources and the Schusterman Center, the site of (405) 271-2316 Services Administration awarded a OU-Tulsa. OU enrolls almost 32,000 multimillion-dollar grant to the OU students, has more than 2,800 full- Alumni Affairs: College of Medicine to recruit, retain time faculty members, and has 21 (405) 271-2300 and admit students from rural, tribal colleges offering 172 majors at the and medically under-represented baccalaureate level, 156 majors at OU Medical Center and The Children’s Hospital: areas, and to enhance the primary care the master’s level, 81 doctoral-level (405) 271-4700 experience among current medical majors and 54 graduate certificates. students. The university’s annual operating OU Medical Center-Edmond: budget is $2.05 billion. The University (405) 341-6100 The College of Medicine Alumni of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity Association awards annual seed grants institution. www.ou.edu/eoo OU Physicians (to schedule an appointment): to junior researchers, who use the (405) 271-2222 funds to gather data for the next level of funding. Executive Dean’s Office: (405) 271-2265

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