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| Type | Medical school |
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| Established | 1883 |
Parent institution | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| Dean | John H. Sampson |
Academic staff | 3,964 |
| Students | 717 in MD Program |
| Location | ,, United States 39°44′42″N104°50′15″W / 39.74503692°N 104.83753502°W /39.74503692; -104.83753502 |
| Website | CU School of Medicine |
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TheUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine is the medical school of theUniversity of Colorado system. It is located at theAnschutz Medical Campus inAurora,Colorado, one of the fourUniversity of Colorado campuses, six miles east of downtownDenver at the junction ofInterstate 225 andColfax Avenue.
The school was founded in 1883 inBoulder. In 1924, the school relocated to a new campus at Ninth Avenue andColorado Boulevard inDenver[1] on land donated byFrederick G. Bonfils. This campus also contained a newColorado General Hospital.[2] By the 1990s, the school was outgrowing its aging facilities.[2] In 1999, theFitzsimons Army Medical Center inAurora closed and between 1999 and 2008 the school of medicine moved to the site, which was renamed theAnschutz Medical Campus for theAnschutz Foundation.[1] The Ninth Avenue campus is currently being redeveloped.[3] The newAnschutz Medical Campus also contains theUniversity of Colorado School of Dental Medicine, the University of Colorado College of Nursing, the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy, and theColorado School of Public Health, as well asUniversity of Colorado, Denver graduate school programs. TheUniversity of Colorado Hospital andChildren's Hospital Colorado have relocated to the campus, along with the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center.[4] The school operates a campus for 3rd and 4th year medical students completing clinical rotations inColorado Springs and in 2021opened a campus inFort Collins in collaboration withColorado State University.
The School of Medicine offers a four-year program leading to anMD degree, and houses variousgraduate programs leading to thePhD degree.[5] The school also includes a Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant (CHAPA) degree and adoctor of Physical Therapy degree. Both are three-year programs. TheMedical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) awards both MD and PhD degrees.[6] There are about 650 MD students at the school, plus 350 in the Physician Assistant and Physical Therapy programs and 400 in Graduate Medical Education.
The University of Colorado's School of Pharmacy (SOP) began in 1911 as a division of the School of Medicine. It became an independent college in 1913 and a school in 1957.[7] It received its accreditation in 1938–1939 and awarded a B.S. in Pharmacy degree in 1995–1996 when it received a full accreditation status awarding the Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree by the ACPE.[8] In 2008, the school moved to theAnschutz Medical Campus, rejoined the medical school, and offers medical and graduate degrees in pharmacy, the pharmaceutical sciences, molecular toxicology, and pharmaceutical outcomes research.[9] 30% of its class is from out of state.[10] In 2009, the NIH awarded $7,310,389 and $19,189,543 in grants towards the SOP and Pharmacology department, respectively.[11] In 2011, the school moved into its new building, the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, located on the Anschutz Medical Campus.[12]
The school and its affiliates have a distinguished record of clinical and research achievements. The University of Colorado Cancer Center is designated aComprehensive Cancer Center by theNational Cancer Institute and is ranked 15th in the country byU.S. News & World Report; Overall, theUniversity of Colorado Hospital is ranked as the 15th best hospital in the country.Children's Hospital Colorado is routinely ranked in the top 10 in the country by the same publication.[13] The school receives approximately $500 million in research awards annually and is ranked 8th among public medical schools in NIH funding.[13] Major accomplishments include developing the international standard for classifying and numbering human chromosomes byTheodore Puck, the first successful human liver transplant byThomas Starzl, the first description oftoxic shock syndrome byJames K. Todd,[14] the first description ofARDS, and the discovery of theT-cell receptor.[15]
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The school's major teaching affiliates are theUniversity of Colorado Hospital,Children's Hospital Colorado,Denver Health, and the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center. With the opening of the new $1.7 billion Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in 2018, all of these institutions except forDenver Health are adjacent on theAnschutz Medical Campus. Other significant affiliates includeNational Jewish Health andSaint Joseph Hospital.
The school has admitted men and women on an equal basis since its founding. The school received about 14,000 applications for the MD program for the 2019–20 academic year. There are 184 students accepted each year, including 24 assigned to the new Colorado Springs branch. There is aMedical Scientist Training Program. The school also operatesphysical therapy,physician assistant, and other degree programs which enroll several hundred more students.[16]
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