University of Colorado School of Medicine

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The University of Colorado School of Medicine is located at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado and is part of the Anschutz Medical Campus, one of the four University of Colorado campuses. 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, a medical scientist training program (MSTP), a master of science in genetic counseling. The graduate school offers various PhD programs.

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History

Foundation and move to Denver

The school was founded in 1883, in Boulder, with two students and two professors.

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.

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Student population

Approximately 2,000 students attend the school (750 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 7,500 applications for the MD program for the 2017-18 academic year. There are 184 students accepted each year, including 24 assigned to new Colorado Springs branch.

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Ranking

Some departments within the school are ranked highly (including family medicine, pediatrics, primary care, and rural medicine.)

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Curriculum

The curriculum is divided into four parts or phases

Phases

• Phases 1 and 2. Core essentials.
• Phase 3. Clinical core.
• Phase 4. Advanced studies.

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:

• Global Health
• Leadership, education, and advocacy development scholarship (LEADS) .
• Research.
• Rural medicine.
• Urban Underserved.

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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 opening in 2018.

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Research

In the 2010-11 fiscal year, the school received more than $400 million in research grants. Research centers at the school include,

• The Altitude Research Center.
• Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes.
• Center for Women's Health Research
• University of Colorado Cancer Center.
• Charles C. Gates Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology Center.
• Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center
• Linda Crnic Institute for Down's Syndrome.
• The Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Anschutz.
• Marcus Institute for Brain Injury
• Health and Wellness Center.

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Diversity

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:

• guidance for high school students showing academic prowess.
• mentoring for students with an interest in medicine.
• summer schools.
• student groups for rural health scholars.
• pre collegiate studies.
• the "Create Health" pre-professional program for undergraduate students.
• an undergraduate preparative course.

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See also

• Dane Prugh

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References

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External links

• University of Colorado, Denver, school of medicine.

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