Chicago Medical School
| Motto | Vita In Inventione |
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Motto in English
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Life in Discovery |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1912 |
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Parent institution
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Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science |
| Dean | James Record, MD, JD |
| Location | North Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Campus | Urban, 97 acres |
| Website | www |
Chicago Medical School (CMS) is a medical school located in North Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the graduate schools of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS).
Founded in 1912, Chicago Medical School has a long history of a broadly based, socially constructive admission process relatively unlike that of other medical colleges. Under the leadership of Dean John J. Sheinin, CMS achieved full American Medical Association approval in 1948.
Chicago Medical School currently has 763 students enrolled and over 6,500 alumni.
Chicago Medical School was founded as a night school in 1912, The Chicago Hospital-College of Medicine. The non-profit Chicago Medical School originally operated on the principle that admission should be based on merit alone. In particular, "Chicago Med" admitted women and minority applicants decades earlier than most professionals schools. As the school's 1912-13 bulletin states, "It is the firm belief of the Faculty of this school that there are deserving men and women, who, if given a second opportunity, will soon 'catch up' with and even surpass those students who have had earlier opportunities and advantages."[1] It delivered quality medical education to a wide range of students.
In 1917, the Chicago Hospital College of Medicine absorbed the Jenner Medical College which had been in existence since 1893 and the name was changed officially to The Chicago Medical School.
In 1935, Dr. John J. Sheinin became Dean of Medicine and decided that the school must be saved. Prior to Dr. Sheinin, and due to CMS's lack of affiliation with a hospital, the school had been struggling financially. To help keep the school open in the 1940s, wealthy retired Chicago businessman Lester North Selig issued a challenge to his contemporaries in Chicago's business world: Did they or did they not support a medical school where admission was based on merit alone? By 1948, Dr. Sheinin had won accreditation for the school by consistently strengthening its curriculum, finances, and community support.
Also under Dr. Sheinin, the American Plan was developed. This policy stuck to the original policy of admission solely based on merit. Eleanor Roosevelt praised the plan in her nationally syndicated "My Day" column:
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