University of Pennsylvania
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The University of Pennsylvania is one of the Ivy League schools, with highly selective admissions and a history of innovation in interdisciplinary education and scholarship. It was established in the year 1740 and is said to be America's first University. It is located in a picturesque campus, amidst a dynamic city and a world-class research institution. Intellectual rigor and a practical outlook are the frameworks of the University of Pennsylvania
The University, popularly known as Penn, carries on the principles and spirit of its founder, Benjamin Franklin: entrepreneurship, innovation, invention, outreach and a pragmatic love of knowledge. Franklin's practical outlook has remained a driving force in the university's development. Penn is home to a diverse student body of nearly 20,000 students comprising of undergraduate and graduate candidates; hailing from every state in the union and all around the globe.
Penn has consistently ranked amongst the top ten universities in...School of Medicine
The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine was the first and only medical school in the thirteen American colonies when, in the fall of 1765, students enrolled for "anatomical lectures" and a course on "the theory and practice of physick." They enrolled at the College of Philadelphia, which was the name of the University of Pennsylvania in pre-Revolutionary times.
The founder of the School of Medicine was a young Philadelphia physician, John Morgan. The need for a change in curriculum has been recognized throughout many generations at the School of Medicine. Since 1968, the school has undertaken several major curricular innovations. In 1970, 1981 and 1987, curricular redesigns were implemented that emphasized flexibility, early exposure to clinical medicine, increased integration between physiology, patho-physiology and pathology, increased ambulatory exposure, bioethics and nutrition education.
Clinical experiences begin the first day of school and continue throughout the program. Required clinical clerkships are a mix of inpatient and ambulatory experiences and basic science is reinforced throughout the clinical curriculum. Following the required clinical clerkships, significant time is available for electives and scholarly experiences. The components of the new system are the Medical Center (including the School of Medicine and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania), a new integrated provider network (the Clinical Care Associates of the University of Pennsylvania), a managed care office, a management services organization and other provider entities. The system creates a regional network that provides patients with access to primary care providers, both physicians and nurses.
The development of the new components of the University of Pennsylvania Health System provides the faculty of the School of Medicine with opportunities to address, through the educational process, the changes in health care delivery which will be in place when current medical students begin their medical careers. The development of the Clinical Care Associates provides new sites for educating students in primary care medicine and allows the students exposure to alternative practice environments.
The following are the free-standing, interdisciplinary centers and institutes:
- Abramson Cancer Center
- Cardiovascular Institute
- Center for AIDS Research
- Center for Bioethics
- Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Center for Research on Reproduction and Women's Health
- Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology
- Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism
- Institute for Environmental Medicine
- Institute for Medicine and Engineering
- Institute for Regenerative Medicine
- Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
- Institute on Aging
- Leonard Davis Institute
- Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences
- Penn Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
- Penn Genome Frontiers Institute
- Penn Medicine Transplant Institute
- Pennsylvania Muscle Institute
PENN Medicine is a $2.7 billion enterprise dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and quality patient care. PENN Medicine consists of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Penn's School of Medicine is
ranked No.2 in the nation for receipt of NIH funds, and ranked No.4 in the nation in U.S. News and World Report's most recent ranking of top research-oriented
medical schools. The School of Medicine is recognized worldwide for its superior education and training of the next generation of physician/ scientists and
leaders of academic medicine.
The Penn Health System includes three hospitals [Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center]; a faculty practice plan; a primary-care provider network; two multi-specialty satellite facilities; home care and hospice, and long term care. Multidisciplinary units reaching across the SOM and the Health System foster research initiatives to advance patient care.
PENN Medicine
3600 Market Street, Suite 240
Philadelphia PA 19104-2646
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