UIC-THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

Three campuses make up the University of Illinois: Chicago (UIC), Springfield (UIS), and Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The Chicago campus (UIC) is the largest university in the Chicago area, enrolling about twenty-five thousand students in fifteen colleges and schools. The College of Medicine at Chicago is located in the heart of the West Side Medical Center District, one of the world's largest centers for health care. All of UIC's health professions colleges--Associated Health Professions, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health--are housed within the district.

The College of Medicine At Chicago
The College of Medicine At Peoria
The College of Medicine At Rockford
The College of Medicine At Urbana Champaign

The curriculum of the College of Medicine at Chicago, the largest of the college's four programs, provides a solid foundation in the basic and clinical sciences and early exposure to patients. First- and second-year medical students study basic medical sciences and in the last semester of their sophomore year, they choose one of eight hospitals in the metropolitan for a physical diagnosis course. Teaching hospitals affiliated with the Chicago program are: the University of Illinois Hospital, the West Side Veterans Administration Hospital, Cook County Hospital, Mercy Hospital Medical Center, Christ Hospital, Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center, St. Francis, and Michael Reese Hospital. (go)

The College of Medicine At Peoria

As an institution devoted to the education of physicians, the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria will provide our medical students and residents with the medical knowledge and skills they need to take them into the 21st century. Our goal is to educate physicians who practice the highest quality medicine and can work in a cost-conscious environment that emphasizes managed care.
Our programs will embody a comprehensive approach to education, by addressing the needs of the individual through medical school and residency training, as well as offer continuing medical education opportunities for the practitioner. Information technologies of the present and future will be an integral part of our curriculum. Our students will learn they are part of an interdisciplinary healthcare team that is responsible for patient care management.
The other equally important arena for the College of Medicine is the pursuit of scholarship and research. Our faculty and students will continue to be actively involved in basic biological research and in clinical research.
The success of our educational programs is a reflection of the collaborative relationship between the College of Medicine and its major affiliated teaching hospitals, Saint Francis Medical Center and the Methodist Medical Center of Illinois. In addition, numerous other institutions in central Illinois contribute to the education of our students.
The current and on-coming changes in the healthcare system mean the College of Medicine at Peoria will educate a new breed of physicians, will find new ways to serve our community, and will cultivate innovative associations with hospitals, other healthcare providers, and consumers. We look forward to the next 25 years as we educate tomorrow's physicians. (go)

The University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, created as a regional medical program for Illinois, admitted its first students in 1972 and graduated its first class in 1975. The College provides the second, third, and fourth years of medical education. Students begin the degree program with an initial year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The facilities include an auditorium, classrooms, teaching and research laboratories, media services, an activity center, and faculty and administrative offices. The College of Medicine at Rockford enjoys a solid relationship with Rockford's local hospitals, including Rockford Memorial Hospital (Rockford Health System), Swedish American Hospital and the St. Anthony Medical Center .
The College of Medicine at Rockford is organized into eight academic departments: Biomedical Sciences, Family and Community Medicine, Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Surgery. Basic and applied research projects span the basic sciences, behavioral/sociological research, epidemiological studies, and clinical medicine. Research is furthered through grants from government agencies, private foundations, and other sources.
College faculty includes a core of full-time physicians and basic scientists, as well as more than 500 hospital and office-based physicians in the region. The faculty represents a full spectrum of specialties and subspecialties. The community-based approach to teaching utilizes the talents of faculty physicians in three local hospitals, psychiatric facilities, and the College's Primary Care Centers. (go)

The UIC College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign is located at the original campus of the University (with 35,000 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. (go)