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January 2012
The mission of the SIU School of Medicine is to assist the people of central and southern Illinois in meeting their health-care needs through education, patient care, research, and service to the community.

Education - Learners

  • Medical students - 298 current students; 49 (16%) minority; 143 (48%) women
  • Residents - 314 current residents and fellows in training
  • MEDPREP - 61 current students; 59 (96.7%) minority; 44 (72.1%) women
  • Alumni - 2,399 medical students; 1,982 residents and fellows; 1,264 MEDPREP students
  • Graduates in practice - 1,839 graduates in practice; 795 (43%) in 72 Illinois counties; 842 (46%) in primary care

Education - Programs

  • Degree programs - medical, M.D./J.D., doctoral, master's, as well as residency programs
  • Residency programs - dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, medicine/psychiatry, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, pediatrics, plastic surgery, psychiatry, radiology, general surgery, vascular surgery and urology; 19 fellowships
  • Clinical departments - Anesthesiology, Family/Community Medicine, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Radiology and Surgery
  • Other departments - Anatomy, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Information/Communication Sciences, Medical Education/MEDPREP, Medical Humanities, Medical Microbiology/Immunology/Cell Biology, Pharmacology and Physiology

Research

  • Research - 244 active projects; $33.8 M of active funding (from outside sources as of 6/30/11)
  • Graduate programs
    • Education (master's - joint program) - 9 students
    • Molecular Biology/Microbiology/Biochemistry - 73 doctoral students; 20 master's students
    • Pharmacology and Neuroscience - 19 doctoral students
    • Physiology - 8 doctoral students; 15 master's students
  • Graduate program alumni (combined) - 75 doctoral; 199 master's

Employees

  • Faculty (all sites)
    • Totals: 356 full-time, 24 part-time and 887 volunteers (all sites)
    • 243 full-time, 8 part-time and 794 volunteer M.D./D.O. faculty
    • 88 full-time, 11 part-time and 28 volunteer Ph.D. faculty
    • 3 full-time, 1 part-time and 28 volunteer other doctoral faculty
    • 22 full-time, 4 part-time and 27 volunteer other faculty
  • Staff
    • 260 full-time professional/ administrative staff including researchers (all sites)
    • 1005 civil service employees (Springfield and clinical satellites)

Clinical Care

  • SIU HealthCare is the name of the School's physician practice
  • Visits to SIU clinics: 425,472 (FY11)
  • SIU HealthCare has more than 250 teaching physicians providing new treatments and technologies that have transformed the practice of medicine
  • SIU HealthCare has more than 300 other providers incuding nurses, licensed clincial social workers, mid-wives, dietitians and audiologists
  • Unduplicated patients served: 115,339 (FY11)
  • Clinical outreach - 171 sites in 90 Illinois communities. Primarily, SIU HealthCare Provides services in Springfield, with satellite locations in Carbondale, Decatur and Quincy. We have partnered with many of the hospitals and additional clinics in each location as well as many other communities in central and southern Illinois
  • Our physicians dedicate themselves to the science of health care and education a new generation
  • Clinical centers - Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders; Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Center; Simmons Cancer Institute at SIU; Southern Illinois Trauma Center; St. John's Children's Hospital; Fertility/IVF Center and Pediatric Myoclonus Center

Community Outreach

  • Telehealth - 58 educational programs at 109 sites in 55 Illinois communities; 14 clinical programs at 26 sites in 20 communities (FY11)
  • Library - 151,754 volumes, 3,432 audiovisual titles, 2,586 print and electronic periodicals, and 5,000 special collections
  • Continuing medical education - 70 programs with 3,695 registrants (FY11)
  • Affiliated hospitals
    • Springfield - Memorial Medical Center and St. John's Hospital
    • Marion - VA Health System
    • Carbondale - Memorial Hospital of Carbondale
    • Decatur - Decatur Memorial Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital
    • Quincy - Blessing Hospital

Facilities

  • SIU programs are located in 22 buildings in Springfield; 5 buildings in Carbondale; and Family Medicine Centers in Carbondale, Decatur, Golden, Quincy, Springfield and West Frankfort.

Funding

  • Budget -$167.7M (million) (FY12); $40.0M state appropriations; $0.0M federal stimulus; $8.9M tuition; $17.6M grants/contracts; $42.8M clinical overhead; $50.9M self-supporting activities; $7.59M indirect costs

Accreditation

  • In 2007 the School received full accreditation with no citations for eight years from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).
  • Residency programs are individually accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Note: Information in Quick Facts is updated by various School units twice a year.  It replaces Quarterly Statistics. [Stats Archive].  For information, contact Public Affairs, 217-545-2155, publicaffairs@siumed.edu. .

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