Indiana University School of Medicine
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1903 |
| Dean | Jay L. Hess |
| Students | 2,059 |
| Location | Indianapolis, Indiana, US |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | medicine |
The Indiana University School of Medicine is a medical school and medical research center connected to Indiana University; its principal research and medical center is on the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis campus in Indianapolis. The medical school awarded the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree to its first class in 1907. With 1,404 M.D. students and 168 Ph.D. students in 2016, it is currently the second largest medical school in the United States. The School offers several joint-degree programs, including an MD/MBA, MD/MA, MD/MPH, and an NIH-designated Medical Scientist Training Program, a highly competitive subset of MD-PhD programs. For the 2015 entering class, there were 377 students enrolled in the M.D. program.
The school is a pioneer in cancer, immunology, alcohol, neuroscience, and diabetes research (see section below). Notably, some of its recent research discoveries that have received international acclaim include a curative therapy in testicular cancer used to treat patient Lance Armstrong, the development of echocardiography, several genes linked to Alzheimer's, and creation of inner ear sensory cells from pluripotent stem cells. The IU School of Medicine is home to the Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, an NCI—designated Clinical Cancer Center.
In the U.S. News & World Report, rankings, the school ranks 47th in the nation for primary care and 45th for research out of about 150 medical schools.
As of 2013, Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Health is home to 21 nationally ranked clinical programs, including Pediatrics, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Geriatrics, Urology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Pulmonology, Gastroenterology and Orthopedics. The James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health ranked nationally in all ten designated specialties in the U.S. News & World Report.
The current dean of the medical school is Jay L. Hess, M.D., Ph.D., who succeeded D. Craig Brater in 2013.
The story of the founding of Indiana University School of Medicine begins in rivalry with Purdue University, who competed with Indiana University-based founders over the authority to operate the most premier medical school in the state. In March 1903, William Lowe Bryan, the 10th president of Indiana University, proposed to the University trustees the establishment of a Department of Medicine. Approved, the new department was established in May of the same year. A doctor by the name of Burton D. Myers, previously at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, was hired to be the head of the Department of Anatomy in Bloomington; Myers would later serve as dean of the medical school from 1927 to 1940. May 1904 saw the induction of the School of Medicine into the American Association of American Medical Colleges (the AAMC). However, early founders wished to locate facilities in Indianapolis for a medical school as well. Eventually, the founders in Bloomington secured funds to acquire the title and building of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, previously part of the Purdue University's Medical Department. This building was renamed as part of the State College of Physicians and Surgeons. There continued to be rivalry between the Indianapolis medical school and the one at Purdue.
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