University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 2037203 215539434 2008-05-28T17:28:27Z Activeco 1440955 [[WP:UNDO|Undid]] removed remove revision 215539229 by [[Special:Contributions/Activeco|Activeco]] ([[User talk:Activeco|talk]]) {{Infobox_University |name = University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |image = [[Image:Penn color shield.svg|150px]] |established = [[1765]] |type = [[Private university|Private]] |dean = Dr. Arthur H. Rubenstein |city = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] |students = 720 |faculty = |campus = [[urban area|Urban]] |website = http://www.med.upenn.edu/ }} [[Image:University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.JPG|thumb|250px|John Morgan Hall at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine]] The '''[[University of Pennsylvania]]'s School of Medicine''', presently located in the [[University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|University City]] section of [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], was the [[United States]]'s first school of medicine, founded at the [[College 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 (physician)|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 the [[University of Edinburgh]], they emphasized the need for supplement medical lectures with bedside teaching, which they had made available to them at [[Pennsylvania 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) and [[Joseph Leidy]] (anatomy). In 1847, the group of physicians who organized the [[American Medical Association]] effectively gave recognition to the School's fame by naming the AMA's first president [[Nathaniel 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 the [[Flexner 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 organization [[Penn Medicine]] to administer and coordinate the School of Medicine and the [[University of Pennsylvania Health System|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]], and [[Professionalism and Humanism]], were developed by [[focus groups]] consisting of department chairpersons, course directors, and students. ==Departments of the School of Medicine== [[Image:University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine faculty roster.JPG|thumb|300px|Historical roster listing the Professors and Clinical Professors of the Department of Medicine]] ===Basic Science === * [[Biochemistry]] and [[Biophysics]] * [[Biostatistics]] and [[Epidemiology]] * [[Cancer Biology]] * [[Cell and Developmental Biology]] * [[Genetics]] * [[Genomics]] and [[Computational Biology]] * [[Medical Ethics]] * [[Microbiology]] * [[Neuroscience]] * [[Pharmacology]] * [[Physiology]] ===Clinical === [[Image:PostcardPhiladelphiaPAUPennMedlLabBldgPM1908.jpg|thumb|right|350px|John Morgan Hall as seen in a postcard sent in 1908]] * [[Anesthesia]] * [[Dermatology]] * [[Emergency Medicine]] * [[Family Practice]] and [[Community Medicine]] * [[Medicine]] * [[Neurology]] * [[Neurosurgery]] * [[Obstetrics]] and [[Gynecology]] * [[Ophthalmology]] - [[Scheie Eye Institute]] * [[Orthopaedic Surgery]] * [[Otorhinolaryngology]] * [[Pathology]] and [[Laboratory Medicine]] * [[Pediatrics]] - Pediatrics professors also have appointments at [[Children's Hospital of Philadelphia]]. * [[Physical Medicine]] and [[Physical therapy|Rehabilitation]] * [[Psychiatry]] * [[Radiation therapy|Radiation Oncology]] * [[Radiology]] * [[Surgery]] ==Centers and Institutes== * Abramson Cancer Center * Cardiovascular Institute * Center for [[AIDS]] Research * [http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/ Center for Bioethics ] * Center for [[Clinical Epidemiology]] and [[Biostatistics]] * Center for Research on [[Reproduction]] and [[Women's Health]] * Center for [[Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology]] * General Clinical Research Center * Institute for [[Diabetes]], [[Obesity]], and [[Metabolism]] * Institute for Medicine and Engineering * Institute for [[Translational Medicine]] and [[Therapeutics]] * 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 of [[Addiction]] (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== * As of [[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 2004 [[fiscal year]], Penn received 947 research and training grants and other awards, totalling more than $393.6 million. 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