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January 2013
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 Education
  • Medical students - 298 current students; 44 (15%) minority; 145 (49%) women
  • Residents - 312 current residents and fellows in training
  • MEDPREP - 68 current students; 58 (85.2%) minority; 49 (72.0%) women
  • Alumni - 2,471 medical students; 2,163 residents and fellows; 1,264 MEDPREP students
  • Graduates in practice - 1,920 graduates in practice; 818 (43%) in 73 Illinois counties; 877 (46%) in primary care
  • Graduate Research Programs
  • 125 students combined four programs

Education - Programs

  • Degree programs - medical, M.D./J.D., M.D./M.P.H., doctoral, master's, physician assistant 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; 17 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 - 200 active projects; $32.2 M of active funding (from outside sources as of 6/30/12)
  • Graduate programs
    • Education (master's - joint program) - 9 students
    • Molecular Biology/Microbiology/Biochemistry - 56 doctoral students; 21 master's students
    • Pharmacology and Neuroscience - 13 doctoral students; 2 master's students
    • Physiology - 12 doctoral students; 12 master's students
  • Graduate program alumni (combined) - 75 doctoral; 199 master's

Employees

  • Faculty (all sites)
    • Totals: 336 full-time, 36 part-time and 899 volunteers (all sites)
    • 224 full-time, 17 part-time and 816 volunteer M.D./D.O. faculty
    • 84 full-time, 14 part-time and 28 volunteer Ph.D. faculty
    • 3 full-time, 1 part-time and 28 volunteer other doctoral faculty
    • 25 full-time, 4 part-time and 27 volunteer other faculty
  • Staff
    • 244 full-time professional/ administrative staff including researchers (all sites)
    • 1035 civil service employees (Springfield and clinical satellites)

Clinical Care

  • SIU HealthCare is the name of the School's health care practice
  • Visits to SIU clinics: Over 370,000 (FY12)
  • SIU HealthCare has nearly 240 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: Over 110,000 (FY12)
  • Clinical outreach - Approximately 100 sites in 46 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
  • More than 30 Telehealth sites for clinical consultations have been established all over Illinois
  • Our physicians dedicate themselves to the science of health care and education a new generation
  • More than $6 million was spent in Financial Assistance to individuals who were not insured or who were underinsured (FY12)

Community Outreach

  • Telehealth - 50 educational programs at 83 sites in 41 Illinois communities; 8 clinical programs at 24 sites in 14 communities (FY12)
  • Library - 152,646 volumes, 3,418 audiovisual titles, 2581 print and electronic periodicals, and 5,000 special collections
  • Continuing medical education - 66 programs with 11,773 registrants (FY12)
  • Affiliated hospitals
    • Springfield - Memorial Medical Center and St. John's Hospital, Lincoln Prairie Behavioral Health Center
    • 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 23 buildings in Springfield; 5 buildings in Carbondale; and Family Medicine Centers in Carbondale, Decatur, Golden, Quincy, Springfield and West Frankfort.

Funding

  • Budget -$168.7M (million) (FY13); $38.3M state appropriations; $10.4M tuition and fees; $15.9M grants/contracts; $43.4M clinical overhead; $49.3M self-supporting activities; $11.4M indirect costs

Accreditation

  • In 2007 the School received full accreditation with no citations for eight years from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).
  • In October 2012, the School received Continued Accreditation for the Institution from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for the maximun cycle of five years. Residency programs are individually accredited by the ACGME.
  • In November 2011, the School received Accreditation With Commendation for six years from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).

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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