Facts and figures

Education - learners

Medical education

  • Medical students - 320 current students in Carbondale and Springfield
  • Residents - 410 current residents and fellows in training in 34 individual programs
  • MEDPREP - 41 current students; 100% underrepresented; 87% female
  • Physician Assistant Program - 128 current students in 2-year program
  • Alumni - 3,386 medical student alumni; 3,100 exited residents and fellows; 1,688 MEDPREP students; 585 Physician Assistant alumni
  • Graduates in practice - 2,358 graduates in practice; 910 (39%) in 75 Illinois counties; 770 (34%) in primary care
  • Graduate Research Programs - 85 students in four programs (Pharmacology, Physiology, Biochemistry and Medical Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology)

Education programs

  • Degree programs - medical (MD), medical-law (MD/JD), medical-public health (MD/MPH), doctoral (PhD), master's (MS), physician assistant (MSPA), PA doctoral (DMSc) as well as residency programs
  • Residency programs (22) - dermatology, emergency medicine, four family & community medicine programs: Springfield, Decatur, Quincy, Alton and Carbondale; internal medicine, preliminary medicine, medicine/psychiatry, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, radiology, seven surgery programs: general surgery, orthopedics, otolaryngology, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, vascular, and urology
  • Fellowships (12)- adult reconstruction, cardiovascular disease, child & adolescent psychiatry, colorectal surgery, endocrinology, endourology, hand surgery, hematology/oncology, infectious diseases, pulmonary critical care, sports medicine (2): Quincy and Carbondale
  • Clinical departments (10) - Anesthesiology, Family/Community Medicine, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Radiology and Surgery
  • Non-Clinical departments (8) - Anatomy, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Information/Communication Sciences, Medical Education/MEDPREP, Medical Humanities, Medical Microbiology/Immunology/Cell Biology, Pharmacology and Physiology

Research

120 active projects; $25.6 million in active funding (from outside sources as of 8/31/24)

Graduate programs

  • Biomedical and Biological Sciences - 55 doctoral students; 30 master's students

 

Employees

Faculty (all sites)

  • Totals: 428 full-time, 47 part-time and 986 volunteer MD/DO faculty (all sites)
  • 69 full-time, 7 part-time and 3 volunteer Ph.D. faculty
  • 3 full-time and 13 volunteer other doctoral faculty
  • 22 full-time, 5 part-time and 9 volunteer other faculty

Staff

  • 241 full-time and 24 part-time professional/ administrative staff including researchers (all sites)
  • 1087 civil service employees (Springfield and clinical satellites)

Clinical care

  • Our physicians dedicate themselves to the science of health care and education of a new generation of providers.
  • SIU Medicine is the name of the School's health care practice.
  • Visits to SIU clinics: 607,000+ (FY24). Total unduplicated patients served: 183,600+ unique patients (FY24)
  • SIU School of Medicine has more than 375 teaching physicians providing new treatments and technologies that have transformed the practice of medicine
  • SIU Medicine also has nearly 275 residents, 40+ fellows and 700+ other non-physician providers including but not limited to nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers, audiologists, counselors, midwives, pharmacists, dental professionals, etc. who provide specialized care to patients.
  • Clinical outreach: 28+ Illinois communities. Primarily, SIU Medicine 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.
  • Telehealth outreach: Delivers health care services to 99 of 102 counties in Illinois with clinical services including Surgery, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, ENT, OB-GYN, Neurology, Family Medicine and Internal Medicine, NICU, Maternal Fetal Medicine and TeleStroke.

     

Community outreach

  • Professional Development Video-Conference Services - Educational programs offered virtually in 19 Illinois communities
  • Library - 126,348 volumes, 1,091 media titles, 9,629 print and electronic periodicals, 5,183 e-books, and 4,935 special collections
  • Continuing Professional Development - 87 programs with over 15,000 learners

Affiliated hospitals

  • Springfield - Memorial Hospital, HSHS St. John's Hospital, Vibra Hospital and Lincoln Prairie Behavioral Health Center
  • Carbondale - Memorial Hospital
  • Carlinville - Carlinville Area Hospital
  • Decatur - Memorial Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital
  • Effingham - St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital
  • Litchfield - St. Francis Hospital
  • Passavant Area Hospital
  • Pittsfield - Blessing, Care Cordoba, Illini Community Hospital
  • Quincy - Blessing Hospital
  • Staunton - Community Memorial Hospital 

Facilities

  • SIU programs are located in 26 buildings in Springfield; 6 buildings in Carbondale; and Family Medicine Centers in Alton, Carbondale, Decatur, Quincy and Springfield.

Funding

  • Budget -$292.4M (million) (FY19); $34.3M state appropriations; $12.3M tuition and fees; $14.0M grants/contracts; $42.3M clinical overhead;
    $96.1M self-supporting activities; $9.2M indirect costs

Accreditations

  • In 2015 the School received full accreditation with no citations for eight years from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). This is the second consecutive no-citations accreditation for SIU.
  • In October 2012, the School received Continued Accreditation for the Institution from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) with a commendation for substantial compliance. The next site visit is scheduled for October 2024. Residency programs are individually accredited by the ACGME.
  • In 2017, the School received a 6-year Accreditation with Commendation from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
  • In 2017, the School's Physician Assistant Program was granted Continuing Accreditation Status from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) for the maximum of ten years.  The next site visit is scheduled for 2027.

 

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