University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Type | Public |
---|---|
Established | 1907 |
Dean | Robert N. Golden, MD |
Administrative staff | 1345 |
Students | 614 (MD), 2114 (TOTAL) |
Location | , , |
Campus | Urban |
Website | med.wisc.edu |
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH) is a professional school for the study of medicine and public health at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It is one of only two medical schools in Wisconsin, along with the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and the only public one.
UWSMPH's main building, the Health Sciences Learning Center, is located at the western end of
History
The
Rankings and Academic Profile
The UWSMPH has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation's best primary-care medical schools and among the top 30 research schools. In the 2020 edition of graduate school rankings, UWSMPH was listed as 16th in primary-care education and as 27th among research schools.[3] The UW School of Medicine and Public Health also ranks as one of the top medical schools in terms of research funding and expenditures, with US$356 million in extramural research support and US$575 million in total expenditures in 2015–16.[4] In 2019, UWSMPH ranked 28th among U.S. medical schools in NIH research grant funding received, with US$229 million received.[5] Grants to UWSMPH represent 40 per cent of all research grants received by UW–Madison.[6]
The UWSMPH is an academic center for embryonic stem cell research, with UWSMPH Professor of Anatomy James Thomson being the first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells. This has brought significant attention to the university's research programs. Stem cell research at the school is aided in part by funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the promotion of WiCell.[citation needed]
The school also has teaching and research partnerships with the
Admissions to UWSMPH is competitive, with 7.6% of applicants accepted in 2007. The acceptance rate for out-of-state applicants is significantly lower; of 2,674 out-of-state applicants in 2007, 167 were interviewed for 34 spots, an acceptance rate of 3.7%; the in-state rate was 23.2%. The matriculates had an average GPA of 3.76 and an MCAT score of 32.[10]
Programs
UWSMPH has a
Through the Statewide Campus initiative, medical students at UWSMPH who are not enrolled in WARM or TRIUMPH also complete some of their rotations at one of the aforementioned Statewide sites outside of Madison (
Notable people
Notable alumni of the school include:
- Laurel Clark (MD 1987), astronaut, participant in the Space Shuttle Columbia mission[18]
- Helen Dickie (MD 1937), pulmonologist who conducted landmark studies on farmer's lung and played an important role in eradicating tuberculosis from UW–Madison's campus[19]
- Howard Engle (MD), physician and lead plaintiff in a landmark lawsuit against the tobacco industry[20]
- Frederic E. Mohs (MD 1934), general surgeon who developed the Mohs surgery technique in dermatology while a medical student; later became a professor and surgeon at UW–Madison [21]
- Robert F. Schilling (MD 1943), developed the Schilling test for pernicious anemia and conducted research on Vitamin B12; was also a professor at UW–Madison
Notable past and present faculty include:
- Charles R. Bardeen, first dean of UWSMPH and the first graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- Vanessa Northington Gamble, physician who chaired the 1996 Legacy Committee to investigate the unethical nature of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- 5-fluorouracil
- William Shainline Middleton, military physician who was a founder of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the second dean of UWSMPH
- Jonathan Patz, climate change researcher, member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Director of the UW–Madison Global Health Institute
- Howard Temin, co-discoverer of the viral enzyme reverse transcriptase and 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicinelaureate
- human embryonic stem cell line in 1998 and derived a human induced pluripotent stem cellline in 2007
- Terri Young, prominent pediatric ophthalmologist and current chair of the UWSMPH Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
See also
- Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin
References
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- ^ "Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health (TRIUMPH)". University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
- ^ "Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM)". University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
- ^ "Curriculum, Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine". University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
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- ^ Wisconsin Alumni Association. "Notable Alumni", Wisconsin Alumni Association, 2019. Accessed April 6, 2019.
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- ^ Weber, Bruce. "H. A. Engle, Tobacco Plaintiff, Dies at 89", The New York Times, July 24, 2009. Accessed July 25, 2009.
- ^ Lewis, Paul. "Frederic Mohs, 92, Inventor Of Cancer Surgery Technique", The New York Times, July 5, 2002. Accessed April 6, 2019.