The Indiana University School of Medicine is the medical school of Indiana University. It teaches medicine to the students of Indiana University. It is part of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus in Indianapolis, Indiana. Established in 1903, the school had an initial class of 25 students. With over 1100 students in 2006, it is currently the second largest medical school in the United States (the first is the University of Illinois College of Medicine). It is Indiana's only medical school.
First- and second-year students attend classes at either the main Indianapolis campus (approximately half of the class) or one of eight regional centers at college campuses throughout the state: Bloomington, Muncie, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Terre Haute, Evansville, West Lafayette, and Northwest (in Gary). Third- and fourth-year students spend the last two years of medical school at the IUPUI campus, although this model is anticipated to change with the expansion of the medical school enrollment at its regional campuses. It is anticipated in years future medical students will be given the option to complete three to four years of medical education at some of the centers, such as a four-year program with emphasis in rural health care at the Terre Haute center.
The Indiana University School of Medicine has received national and international recognition for its innovative curriculum. In order to ensure that its educational process more accurately reflected its commitment to graduating caring and competent physicians, the Indiana University School of Medicine initiated a competency curriculum in 1999. The first class of students to enter under a four-year competency curriculum graduated in 2003. The newly established curriculum consists of nine competencies: Effective Communication; Basic Clinical Skills; Using Science to Guide Diagnosis, Management, Therapeutics, and Prevention; Lifelong Learning; Self-Awareness, Self-Care, and Personal Growth; the Social and Community Contexts of Health Care; Moral Reasoning and Ethical Judgment; Problem-Solving; and Professionalism and Role Recognition. Assessment and certification of achievement of the nine competencies is sequentially integrated into each year of the curriculum culminating with a competency transcript upon graduation.
To model and support the moral, professional, and humane values expressed in the new formal competency-based curriculum, the IU School of Medicine simultaneously implemented a school-wide "relationship-centered care initiative" to address its informal curriculum.[1]
In contrast to the competency curriculum the basic medical curriculum has been criticised for being well out of date and laborious. Students spend much of their first two years studying Histology, Biochemistry, and molecular biology, while having very limited clinical and patient care experiences. The primciple redeeming factor for many students is that nearly all of this material can be learned on the school website.
Other criticism for the school has been directed at its relationship to the large private hospital network Clarian Health. The influence of this private hospital network over the publicly funded institution has been called into question on occasion.
The School helps train interns and residents in 92 medical and surgical specialties. Students train under faculty and staff at:
- Indiana University Hospital
- James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children
- Methodist Hospital
- The Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center
- Wishard Memorial Hospital
- Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital
- The IU-Kenya Partnership program with Moi University School of Medicine, Kenya
- and multiple other physician offices and hospitals throughout Indiana.
All of these hospitals are within walking distance of, or adjacent to, IUPUI, with the exception of Methodist Hospital and Larue Carter Hospital, which are located a few miles from the main campus. Methodist Hospital is connected to the main Indiana University Medical Center campus by means of the Clarian Health People Mover, an elevated people mover system.
References
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1. Litzelman, Debra K. & Cottingham, Ann H. (2007). The New Formal Competency-Based Curriculum and Informal Curriculum at Indiana University School of Medicine: Overview and Five Year Analysis. Academic Medicine, 82(4), pp. 410-421.
2. Cottingham, Ann H., Suchman, Anthony L., Litzelman, Debra K., Frankel, Richard M., Mossbarger, David L., Williamson, Penelope R., Baldwin, DeWitt C., Jr. & Thomas S. Inui. (2008). Enhancing the Informal Curriculum of a Medical School: A Case Study in Organizational Culture Change. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 23(6), pp. 715-722.
External links
- Indiana University School of Medicine
- Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
- Indiana University Medical Student Council
- IUPUI University Archives
- James Whitcomb Riley Children's Hospital
- Richard Rousebush Veterans Hospital
- Wishard Memorial Hospital
- Clarian home page
- IU-Kenya Partnership
- AMPATH
Coordinates: 39°46′32″N 86°10′36″W / 39.77556°N 86.17667°W
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