Indiana University School of Medicine

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The Indiana University School of Medicine has nine campuses throughout Indiana; the principal research and medical center is located on the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis campus in Indianapolis. With 1,409 M.D. Program students and 158 Ph.D. students in 2017, IU is one of the largest allopathic medical schools in the United States.[1][2] The school offers several joint-degree programs, including an MD/MBA, MD/MA, MD/MPH, and an MD-PhD Medical Scientist Training Program. The university is the American medical school with the largest number of physicians in the United States per the 2018 Federation of State Medical Boards Survey with 11,828 licensed physicians.[3]

The school has pioneered research in multiple specialties, including oncology, immunology, substance use, neuroscience, and endocrinology. Research discoveries include a curative therapy for testicular cancer, the development of echocardiography, the identification of several genes linked to Alzheimer's disease, and the creation of inner ear sensory cells from pluripotent stem cells.[4][5][6]

In the 2021 U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best graduate schools for medicine, the school ranked 20th in the nation for primary care and 47th for research out of about 150 medical schools.[7] In the U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best hospitals, the Indiana University Health Medical Center had seventeen nationally ranked clinical programs. The Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health is nationally ranked in 9 of 10 designated specialties for children in the U.S. News & World Report.[8] The IU School of Medicine is also home to the Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.

History[edit]

Indiana University established a department of medicine at Bloomington in 1903, but the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis traces its founding to 1908, following the resolution of a rivalry with Purdue University over which institution had the authority to establish a medical school in Marion County, Indiana.[9] A year after the IU and Purdue-affiliated schools were consolidated in 1908, the Indiana General Assembly authorized IU to operate a medical school in Marion County.[10]

Founding in Bloomington, 1903[edit]

In March 1903, William Lowe Bryan, the tenth president of Indiana University, proposed the formation of a department of medicine at IU Bloomington to the university trustees. The new department was established in May of the same year. The IU School of Medicine was admitted as a member of the American Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in 1904.

Founding in Indianapolis, 1908[edit]

In addition to its department of medicine in Bloomington, IU's leaders wanted to locate medical training facilities in Indianapolis. Their initial plan was to provide medical students with the first two years of coursework at Bloomington and the final two years at Indianapolis, where students would receive clinically-based training as part of their studies.[11] Prior to 1908, due primarily to the high cost of establishing its own medical facilities in Indianapolis, IU attempted to merge with existing medical schools, but the effort was not successful.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Indiana University School of Medicine Fact Sheet" (PDF).
  2. ↑ "Table B-1.2: Total Enrollment by U.S. Medical School and Sex, 2013-2014 through 2017-2018" (PDF). Association of American Medical Colleges. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "FSMB Census of Licensed Physicians in the United States, 2018" (PDF). FSMB. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "How Lance Armstrong Beat Cancer". Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2011-07-24.
  5. ↑ "Study Finds Novel Gene Associated With Alzheimer's Disease Development". Alzheimer's News Today. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Koehler, K. R.; Mikosz, A. M.; Molosh, A. I.; Patel, D.; Hashino, E. (2013). "Generation of inner ear sensory epithelia from pluripotent stem cells in 3D culture". Nature. 500 (7461): 217–21. doi:10.1038/nature12298. PMC 3739998. PMID 23842490.
  7. ↑ "Best Medical Schools". U.S. News.
  8. ↑ https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/in/iu-health-academic-health-center-6420020
  9. ↑ Burton D. Myers, "A History of Medical Education in Indiana" in Dorothy Ritter Russo, ed. (1949). "VIII". One Hundred Years of Indiana Medicine, 1849–1949. Indianapolis: Indiana Medical Association. pp. 63–64. OCLC 14676916. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  10. ↑ Myers, pp. 79–80.
  11. ↑ Ralph D. Gray (2003). IUPUI–The Making of an Urban University. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 13. ISBN 9780253342423.
  12. ↑ IU's relationship with the Indiana Medical College, organized in Indianapolis in 1869, was dissolved in 1876; other early efforts to establish a training facility in Indianapolis also failed. A proposed merger with the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, organized in Indianapolis in 1873, did not materialize in 1903, and no agreement was reached to merge with the Medical College of Indiana in 1904. See Myers, pp. 62, 71–73.

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