- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Infobox_University
name = University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
established = 1765
type = Private
dean = Dr. Arthur H. Rubenstein
city =Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
students = 720
faculty =
campus = Urban
website = http://www.med.upenn.edu/The
University of Pennsylvania 's School of Medicine, presently located in the University City section ofPhiladelphia ,Pennsylvania , was theUnited States 's first school of medicine, founded in 1765 at theCollege of Philadelphia , as the University was then called. It is widely regarded as one of the nation's top medical schools, and in 2008, was ranked fourth overall among research-based medical schools by US News and World Report.The school's young founder, John Morgan, was among the school's
Edinburgh, Scotland educated faculty. In the autumn of 1765, students enrolled for "anatomical lectures" and a course on "the theory and practice of physick." Modelling the School after theUniversity of Edinburgh , they emphasized the need for supplement medical lectures with bedside teaching, which they had made available to them atPennsylvania Hospital by the practitioners there.__TOC__The School of Medicine's faculty was nationally renowned:
Benjamin Rush (medicine),Philip Syng Physick (surgery), Robert Hare (chemistry) and, around the 1850s,William Pepper (medicine) andJoseph Leidy (anatomy). In 1847, the group of physicians who organized theAmerican Medical Association effectively gave recognition to the School's fame by naming the AMA's first presidentNathaniel Chapman , Professor of Medicine at the School.In the 1870s, the School of Medicine's faculty persuaded the University's trustees to build a teaching hospital along with the newly moved campus, from downtown Philadelphia to its current location just west of the
Schuylkill River . At the Hospital, the faculty of the School played an integral part in promoting and implementing an important aspect of theFlexner Report of 1910: to have a bedside teaching program specifically conducted by appointed clinical faculty. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the School of Medicine was one of the earliest to encourage the development of the emerging medical specialties: neurosurgery, ophthalmology, dermatology, and radiology. Between 1910 and 1939, the chairman of the Department of Pharmacology,Alfred Newton Richards , played a significant role in developing the University as an authority of medical science, helping the United States to catch up with European medicine and begin to make significant advances in biomedical science.In 1993 the Hospital (or Medical Center including the School of Medicine), was included in the
University of Pennsylvania Health System , the University's response to the changing national climate of health care. The Health System includes a clinical care network in which the professional associates of the Health System provide hands-on teaching for students of the School. This arrangement allows the faculty to address changes in health care delivery in an educational environment. Currently, the University uses the umbrella organizationPenn Medicine to administer and coordinate the School of Medicine and the Health System.Benchmark changes in the understanding of medical science and the practice of medicine have necessitated that the School change its methods of teaching, as well as its curriculum. Large changes were made in 1968, 1970, 1981, 1987, and 1997. The last significant change in 1997 brought about the institution of Curriculum 2000, "an integrated, multidisciplinary curriculum which emphasizes small group instruction, self directed learning and flexibility." [http://www.med.upenn.edu/history.html] Three themes,Science of Medicine ,Art and Practice of Medicine , andProfessionalism and Humanism , were developed byfocus groups consisting of department chairpersons, course directors, and students.Departments of the School of Medicine
Basic Science
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Biochemistry andBiophysics
*Biostatistics andEpidemiology
*Cancer Biology
*Cell and Developmental Biology
*Genetics
*Genomics andComputational Biology
*Medical Ethics
*Microbiology
*Neuroscience
*Pharmacology
*Physiology Clinical
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Anesthesia
*Dermatology
*Emergency Medicine
*Family Practice andCommunity Medicine
*Medicine
*Neurology
*Neurosurgery
*Obstetrics andGynecology
*Ophthalmology -Scheie Eye Institute
*Orthopaedic Surgery
*Otorhinolaryngology
*Pathology andLaboratory Medicine
*Pediatrics - Pediatrics professors also have appointments atChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia .
*Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
*Psychiatry
* Radiation Oncology
*Radiology
*Surgery Centers and Institutes
* Abramson Cancer Center
* Cardiovascular Institute
* Center forAIDS Research
* [http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/ Center for Bioethics ]
* Center forClinical Epidemiology andBiostatistics
* Center for Research onReproduction andWomen's Health
* Center forSleep and Respiratory Neurobiology
* General Clinical Research Center
* Institute forDiabetes ,Obesity , andMetabolism
* Institute for Medicine and Engineering
* Institute forTranslational Medicine andTherapeutics
* Institute on Aging
* Leonard Davis Institute
* Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences
* Pennsylvania Muscle Institute
* Abramson Institute
*Alzheimer's Disease Center
* Center for Cognitive Therapy (Dept. of Psychiatry)
* Center for Functional Neuroimaging (Depts. of Radiology and Neurology)
* Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research (Dept. of Psychiatry)
* Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Disease (Dept. of Medicine)
* Center for Neurobiology and Behavior (Dept. of Psychiatry)
* Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
* Center for Psychotherapy Research (Dept. of Psychiatry)
* Center for Studies ofAddiction (Dept. of Psychiatry)
* Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety (Dept. of Psychiatry)
* Deafness and Family Communication Center (Dept. of Pediatrics)
* Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation (Dept. of Biochemistry/Biophysics)
* Institute for Environmental Medicine (Dept. of Physiology)
* Metabolic Magnetic Resonance Research and Computing Center (MMRRCC) (Dept. of Radiology)
* Penn Lung Center (Dept. of Medicine)
* Smell and Taste Center (Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology)Trivia
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June 8 ,2005 , the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ranks second nationally in terms of total research awards to academic medical schools For the 2004fiscal year , Penn received 947 research and training grants and other awards, totalling more than $393.6 million. [http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/jun05/SOMNIH.htm press release]
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