Established 1883 Phone +1 303-724-5000 Founded 1883 | Type Medical school Dean John J. Reilly, Jr. Academic staff 4,879 | |
Location Aurora, Colorado, United States Address 13001 E 17th Pl, Aurora, CO 80045, USA Parent institution University of Colorado Denver Similar University of Colorado, University of Colorado, University of Denver, Baylor College of Medicine, Rocky Vista University Profiles | ||
The University of Colorado School of Medicine is located at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado and is part of the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, one of the four University of Colorado institutions. It occupies the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center located on a square mile of land eight miles east of downtown Denver at the junction of Interstate 225 and Colfax Avenue.
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Degrees
The school offers a four-year program leading to an MD degree. Other programs include a child health associate/physician assistant (CHAPA) degree, a Masters of Medical Science in Anesthesiology Program (Anesthesiologist Assistant), a doctor of physical therapy degree and a medical scientist training program (MSTP). The graduate school offers various PhD programs.
Foundation
The school was founded in 1883, in Boulder, with two students and two professors.
Move to Denver
In 1911, the school was moved from Boulder, Colorado to Denver, the Colorado state capital, to give students increased clinical learning opportunities. This move put the school ahead of three other contemporary Colorado medical schools (University of Denver medical college, Gross medical college and the Denver homeopathic medical college). The private medical schools objected and took the matter to court. The court ruled that according to the university's state charter, all teaching had to be done in Boulder. In 1912, however, an amendment to the state constitution allowed students to study in Denver in their third and fourth years.
Colorado Boulevard campus
In 1924, the school moved from Boulder to a new campus near Colorado Boulevard and Ninth Avenue in Denver. A quadrangle of red brick buildings housed a medical school, a nursing school and a public teaching hospital that cared for the poor.
Anschutz Medical Campus
In the 1990s, the school was outgrowing its facilities. In 1999, the Fitzsimons army medical center in Aurora closed. Between 1999 and 2008, the school moved to this site, which was later renamed the Anschutz Medical Campus.
Student population
Approximately 2,000 students attend the school (600 MD students; 352 in the physician assistant and physical therapy programs; and 975 in the graduate school). About 3,147 doctoral and professionals' course students are enrolled in the graduate school. The school received about 5,400 applications for the MD program for the 2012-13 academic year. Beginning in 2014, 184 students are accepted each year, including 24 assigned to the new Colorado Springs branch.
Ranking
Some departments within the school are ranked highly (family medicine, third; pediatrics, fifth; primary care, fifth; and rural medicine, seventh.)
Curriculum
The curriculum is divided into four parts or phases
Phases
Universal medical subjects
Woven through all phases are four threads of universal medical subjects: culturally effective medicine; evidence-based medicine and medical informatics (clinical decision-making resources); humanities, ethics, and professionalism; and medicine and society.
Other curricula
The school offers several educational tracks including:
Affiliations
The school is affiliated with the Children’s Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado Hospital. Both hospitals are on the Anschutz campus. Other affiliates include Denver Health Medical Center, National Jewish Health, and the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, which is building an $1.7 billion facility adjacent to the campus. The new center is expected to open in 2018.
Research
In the 2010-11 fiscal year, the school received more than $400 million in research grants. Research centers at the school include,
Women
Since its inception in 1887, the School of Medicine bylaws have required that women be accepted for admission on an equal basis with men. The school's first female graduate was Nelly Mayo who received her degree in 1891. From the 1970s to 2012, the percentage of women graduates increased.
Other groups
The school offers facilitated entry ("pipeline") programs for middle and high school students with diversity of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, residence and military service. The programs include: