University of Minnesota Medical School

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University of Minnesota
Medical School
University of Minnesota Medical School Logo.jpg
TypePublic
Established1888
Dean Jakub Tolar, MD, PhD
Academic staff
2,089[ citation needed ]
Location
Minneapolis & Duluth
,
Minnesota
,
United States
CampusUrban
Website www.med.umn.edu

The University of Minnesota Medical School is a medical school at the University of Minnesota. It is a combination of two campuses located in Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota.

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The Mayo Building, home of the University of Minnesota Medical School, on the University's East Bank campus. Mayo Building and Medical School.jpg
The Mayo Building, home of the University of Minnesota Medical School, on the University's East Bank campus.

History

The University of Minnesota Medical School began in 1888 when three of the private medical schools in the Twin Cities in Minnesota merged their programs to form the University of Minnesota Medical School. [1] A fourth school was absorbed in 1908. As a consequence of these mergers, the school is one of two in the state, the other being the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. [2]

The University of Minnesota Medical School's older buildings include the Mayo Memorial Building (1954) and Jackson Hall (1912). Jackson Hall was built as the home of the Institute of Anatomy and is still the site of anatomy instruction for medical students, undergraduates, and students of dentistry, nursing, physical therapy, and mortuary science. [3] More visible today are the 1978 Phillips-Wangensteen and Moos Tower buildings. A new university hospital overlooking the river was completed in 1986. The university began its partnership with Fairview Health Services in 1997, bringing the university hospital under Fairview operations and eventually moving pediatrics to the West Bank. In 2011, a new pediatric hospital was opened. The M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital provides pediatric programs from surgery, imaging and neonatal and pediatric intensive care to cardiac and oncology (cancer care) services and blood and marrow and organ transplantation.

The Duluth program began in late 1972. It is now a branch campus of the medical school, specializing in the training of physicians for rural and small-town settings in rural Minnesota. The University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Campus is ranked #2 in the nation for training American Indian and Alaskan Indian physicians, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. [4] Students spend their first two years on the Duluth campus before transferring down to the Twin Cities class for rotations and clinical lessons.

Accomplishments

The University of Minnesota Medical School research history includes:

The medical school has more than 17,000 alumni as of 2022. [14] As of 2017, 70% of the state's physicians had taken classes there. [15] A 2010[ needs update ] study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found the University of Minnesota Medical School to be one of only two of 141 medical schools in the United States to be in the top quartile for NIH funding, output of primary care physicians, and social mission score. [16]

Academics

The University of Minnesota Medical School is part of one of the largest Academic Health Centers (AHC) in the United States. This center allows students to train collaboratively across interdisciplinary teams throughout the course of their training programs. The AHC comprises the Medical School, School of Dentistry, School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, School of Public Health, and the College of Veterinary Medicine. [17]

The University of Minnesota Medical School offers seven dual-degree programs for students to combine their medical education with a degree in medical research (MD/PhD), public health (MD/MPH), biomedical engineering (MD/MS), law (MD/JD), business (MD/MBA), or health informatics (MD/MHI). [18] The Medical School also offers 10 individualized pathways for learners to experience a longitudinal integrated clerkships at a variety of hosting sites, each with a different focus. [19] The first longitudinal integrated clerkship in the country was designed and implemented at the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1971. Jack Verby created the Rural Physicians Associate Program (RPAP) as a workforce initiative for rural Minnesota. [20]

In addition to training medical students for their MD degrees, the University of Minnesota Medical School also has numerous residencies and fellowships as part of their graduate medical education programs. These residencies and fellowships are hosted at a variety of health systems across the Twin Cities and Minnesota.

The larger of the two campuses is in the Twin Cities. This campus has approximately 170 students in each of the first two years of medical school with a mixture of traditional medical students and students pursuing combined advanced degrees such as a Ph.D. through a MSTP scholarship. As the larger of the two campuses, the Twin Cities campus provides increased opportunities for research and specialty care and also provides the main clinical education site for both campuses. The university claims that by the end of the fourth year, the total graduating class at Minneapolis usually exceeds 220 students. The University of Minnesota Medical school makes use of many teaching hospitals in the Twin Cities area, such as the University of Minnesota Medical Center, the Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), Regions Hospital in St. Paul, North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale, Children Hospital of Minneapolis and St Paul, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, and the Minneapolis Veteran's Administration Hospital.

The Duluth, Minnesota|Duluth campus, formerly the University of Minnesota Duluth School of Medicine, has approximately 65 [21] students enrolled for each of the first two years of medical school as of 2022, after which they transfer to the Twin Cities campus for their clinical rotations. Duluth is also a primary site for the Center for American Indian and Minority Health which has stated aims to educate increased numbers of Native American students as medical professionals.

Research

In 2014, with the support of Governor Mark Dayton and the Minnesota legislature, the University of Minnesota Medical School created Medical Discovery Teams (MDT) to support the Medical School's efforts to increase national preeminence by attracting and retaining faculty, staff, students, and residents. These Medical Discovery Teams are structured to help achieve the state's stated goals of improving patient and population health, lowering costs, and improving healthcare experiences. The four Medical Discovery Teams were created to focus specifically on four of what they have found to be the biggest health problems facing Minnesota:

Research conducted by Sylvain Lesné in the area of Alzheimer's disease is under investigation as of July 2022; a Science magazine article covered allegations that images were manipulated in a 2006 Nature publication, co-authored by Karen Ashe and others. [22] [23] [24] [25]

Patient care

Patient care at the University of Minnesota Medical School happens through partnerships with hospitals and clinics, in particular through M Health Fairview, as well as within its group practice, University of Minnesota Physicians (M Physicians).

University of Minnesota Physicians is the multi-specialty group practice of the University of Minnesota Medical School faculty.

A clinical partnership has resulted in M Health Fairview, a collaboration between the University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Physicians, and Fairview Health Services, which was finalized in a 2019 agreement. The expanded partnership of the University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Physicians, and Fairview brings together 11 hospitals, 56 primary care clinics, and other services into a shared care delivery system led by a single leadership structure, led by Fairview. [26]

Rankings

In its 2023 report, U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Minnesota Medical School 2nd in the nation for primary care, 35th in the United States for medical research, and 7th for family medicine. [27]

The University of Minnesota Medical School was ranked 21st in the country in the 2022 Blue Ridge Rankings, based on annual NIH funding of $341MM. [28]

The University of Minnesota Medical School is ranked #57 on U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities for Clinical Medicine. [29]

The University of Minnesota Medical School is ranked #26 by Shanghai Ranking for Medical Technology and #101 for Clinical Medicine [30]

The University of Minnesota Medical School is ranked #67 by CEOWorld's Best Medical Schools in the World 2022 [31]

Notable alumni and faculty

Department of Surgery

Department of Medicine

Department of Pediatrics

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