University of California, Irvine School of Medicine

UC Irvine School of Medicine
Former names
 California College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons
California College of Medicine
Motto Fiat Lux
Type Public, Land, Space Granted Research University
Established 1896
Parent institution
 University of California, Irvine
Dean Howard Federoff, M.D.
Location , California, USA
33°38′43.26″N 117°50′33.51″W / 33.6453500°N 117.8426417°W / 33.6453500; -117.8426417Coordinates: 33°38′43.26″N 117°50′33.51″W / 33.6453500°N 117.8426417°W / 33.6453500; -117.8426417
Campus Suburb
Colors Blue and Gold         
Nickname UCI med school, UC Irvine Health
Mascot Anteater
Affiliations University of California, Irvine
Association of American Universities
UCI Medical Center
UCI Grunigen Medical Library
Website www.som.uci.edu

The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine (UC Irvine School of Medicine or UCI School of Medicine) is an LCME accredited[1] medical school, co-located in Orange County's cities of Irvine on the University of California, Irvine campus and Orange at the UC Irvine Medical Center. Of the medical schools evaluated for its 2013 edition (released March 13, 2012), U.S News & World Report ranked the school 43rd in Research and 61st in Primary Care.[2] The school was founded in 1896 by A.C. Moore and is the oldest continually operating medical school in the greater Los Angeles area.

Academics

UC Irvine Medical Center is ranked among the nation’s top 50 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for the 12th consecutive year.[3]

Campus

An early photo of the sanitarium and school that was the forerunner of the University of California Irvine School of Medicine

In 2010, UC Irvine opened its $40.5 million, 65,000-square-foot (6,000 m2) on-campus medical education building that provides a simulation training center along with clinical laboratories and telemedicine stations. The medical education building plays an important part in supporting new initiatives and technologies in teaching and health care delivery and is home to the Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC).[7]

UC Irvine’s Medical Education Building, which opened in April, 2010, on the Irvine campus, is an instructional hub for 1,100 medical students, residents and fellows. Among other features it includes a 60-seat interactive auditorium where students can watch live medical procedures at UC Irvine Douglas Hospital in Orange.

The UC Irvine School of Medicine employs current computer technology to educate its students. It was the first medical school in the country to adopt a totally tablet-based curriculum;[8] in 2010, its iPad iMedEd Initiative provided incoming freshman medical students with digital tablets on which were stored or from which were accessible electronically, all of their lectures, slides, handouts, and books for the first year of medical school. The school also was among the first to create a fully integrated four year curriculum in diagnostic bedside ultrasonography.

Research in several departments of the UC Irvine School of Medicine has placed these departments in the top 50 ranked by NIH and the Blue Ridge Institute. Research faculty are internationally renowned for discoveries in neuroscience, including the basis of memory (long-term potentiation); for the molecules that provide a ‘high’, and for cutting-edge biophotonic methods such as optical imaging available through the Beckman Laser Institute. Research in the school addresses interventions in a number of important human disorders including Alzheimer’s, ALS, autism, cancer, dementia, developmental disorders, epilepsy, eye problems, Huntington’s, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, pain, stroke, stuttering, viral disorders including herpes and many others.

The Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, located on the UC Irvine campus, trains researchers.

Howard Federoff, MD, PhD serves as Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs and dean of the School of Medicine.

Research affiliations

Programs

Notable faculty

Research distinctions

Teaching distinctions

Clinical distinctions

History

Although the School of Medicine joined UC Irvine in 1967, its history goes back more than 100 years to the very foundations of osteopathic medicine.

In 1896, the Pacific College of Osteopathy was founded in the city of Anaheim.[15] Upon moving to Los Angeles in 1904, and through a merger with the Los Angeles College of Osteopathy, the California College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons was created in 1914 and would exist as such until 1961.

In that year, as the California Osteopathic Association merged with the California Medical Association, the California College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons converted into an MD-granting medical school and was renamed the California College of Medicine (CCM). Over the next three years, its administrators worked with the University of California to have it become the third UC medical school, joining those on the San Francisco and Los Angeles campuses.

This vision was realized on October 1, 1965, when the California College of Medicine passed into the full control of the UC Regents and became part of the University of California. Four days later, UC President Clark Kerr received a CCM faculty resolution requesting that the Regents designate UC Irvine as the campus on which the College of Medicine be developed.

On April 20, 1967, the UC Regents approved moving the California College of Medicine to the Irvine campus, creating the UC Irvine College of Medicine. Following that, on July 23, 1968, the Orange County Board of Supervisors approved an affiliation between the Orange County Medical Center and the UC Irvine College of Medicine, giving the medical school a teaching hospital.

Next, the UC Irvine College of Medicine moved onto the UC Irvine campus. On Aug. 29, 1968, a first-year class of 94 students began coursework in the Med Surge I and II buildings. Six years later, on October 3, 1974, the UC Regents purchased the Orange County Medical Center for $5.5 million. The facility was renamed the UC Irvine Medical Center.

The medical center opened the UC Irvine Douglas Hospital on its campus in Orange in 2009.

References

  1. ↑ LCME Directory of accredited California universities
  2. ↑ US News & World Report 2013 "Best Graduate Schools" Rankings
  3. ↑ US News & World Report 2013 "Best Graduate Schools" Rankings
  4. ↑ School's listing of departments and programs
  5. ↑ PhD program in cellular & molecular biosciences (CMB)
  6. ↑ seven-story hospital facility OC Register, Jan. 23, 2009
  7. ↑ Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC)
  8. ↑ Clay, Joanna (August 7, 2010). "UCI medical school goes digital". The Daily Pilot.
  9. ↑ iPad-Compatible Curriculum
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive centers
  12. ↑ Cancer Genetics Network
  13. ↑ US News & World Report March 29, 2011
  14. ↑ http://www.wearablehq.com/medical-students-at-uc-irvine-get-a-hold-google-glass/
  15. ↑ "Guide to the California College of Medicine Records". Collection Number AS-027. The Regents of The University of California.
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