Facts 2008
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Medical College of Wisconsin
Mission
The Medical College of Wisconsin is a private, freestanding medical school dedicated to leadership and excellence in advancing the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury through:
- Education - Preparing the physicians and scientists of tomorrow while enhancing the skills of today’s health professionals.
- Research - Creating new knowledge in basic, translational, and patient-based research to improve human health.
- Patient care - Providing effective, compassionate, expert care for patients.
- Community Engagement - Partnering with public and private organizations to enhance learning, research, patient care and the health of the community.
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History
The The Medical College of Wisconsin was founded in 1893 as the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1913 the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Milwaukee Medical College merged to become the Marquette University School of Medicine.
In 1967 Marquette University, due to financial constraints, terminated its sponsorship of the medical school. The school then continued as a private, national, freestanding institution. Its name was changed in 1970 to the Medical College of Wisconsin. The College has approximately 13,500 alumni.
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Degrees offered
The Medical College offers the MD, PhD, MS, MPH and MA degrees. PhD degrees are awarded in biochemistry; biophysics; biostatistics; cell biology, neurobiology and anatomy; microbiology and molecular genetics; pharmacology and toxicology; public and community health; physiology and functional imaging (joint PhD program with Marquette University).
Master’s degrees are offered in: bioethics (MA), epidemiology (MS), and public health (MPH). Joint degree programs are offered in: bioinformatics (MS) and healthcare technologies management (MS) with Marquette University, and medical informatics (MS) with the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
Residency training is offered in almost all medical specialties.
In 2007, the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (HLC-NCA) granted reaccreditation to the Medical College for the longest term possible (10 years). The NCA is the accrediting body for all institutions of higher education in the College’s geographic region. (NCA, 30 N. La Salle St., Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60602-2504, (312) 263-0456.)
In 2003, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) awarded full, eight-year accreditation to the Medical College, the maximum period of accreditation. The LCME is the accrediting body of all US medical schools.
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Faculty / Staff
The Medical College of Wisconsin has approximately 4,950 faculty and staff; approximately 4,725 work on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus and 225 work at 18 other health care facilities in eastern Wisconsin. The College is the 11th largest private employer in metro Milwaukee.
Faculty: More than 1,300 full-time / 65 part-time & visiting. Staff: More than 3,100 full-time / 190 part-time / 250 project and limited-term employees. Approximately 1,300 physicians from the community serve as volunteer faculty.
Education
There are 1,235 students enrolled in educational programs at the Medical College. This includes 795 medical students, and 440 graduate students.
College faculty supervise approximately 650 physicians in residency training and 175 physicians in fellowship training through the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals.
Approximately 200 scientists are engaged in postdoctoral research fellowship training through the Office of Postdoctoral Education.
The College provides continuing medical education to more than 15,000 health professional registrants each year.
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Research
The Medical College of Wisconsin is a major national research center, in fact, the largest research institution in the Milwaukee metro area and 2nd largest in Wisconsin.
In FY 2006-07, faculty received approximately $143 million in external support for research, teaching, training and related purposes, of which approximately $130 million is for research. This total includes highly competitive research and training awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In the federal government’s FY 2007, the College received $92.3 million in NIH funding. The NIH ranked the Medical College 46th among the nation’s medical schools for NIH research funding in the federal government’s FY 2006 (the most current ranking available), placing the College in the top 40% of the nation’s medical schools.
Annually, College faculty direct or collaborate on approximately 3,000 research studies, and more than 1,300 scientific papers by College faculty are published in peer-reviewed medical journals. Studies are conducted in 27 academic departments and the following centers:
Research Centers
Federally Designated Research Centers
International Research Center
College Centers
In 2007, the Medical College and Children’s Hospital and Health System jointly opened a major new research facility housing the College’s Translational and Biomedical Research Center and the Children’s Research Institute. The facility provides expanded space for research in cancer, structural biology, infectious diseases, biotechnology and biomedical engineering, genomics, developmental and cellular biology, and vascular biology.
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Technology Transfer
In FY 2006-07, Medical College faculty and students reported 46 new discoveries and inventions to the College’s Office of Technology Development. Nine new U.S. patent applications were filed. The College currently has 215 pending and issued patents in the U.S. and foreign countries. To bring these new technologies and related products to market, the College has research and development affiliations with campus institutions, other major universities and research institutions, health care organizations, as well as government and civic groups in Wisconsin and elsewhere. The College has launched 17 start-up companies and licensed technologies to 50 pharmaceutical, diagnostic, biotechnology and medical device corporations.
Patient Services
More than 900 faculty physicians at the Medical College of Wisconsin provide adult patient care as the Medical College Physicians and pediatric patient care through Children’s Specialty Group, a joint venture with Children’s Hospital and Health System. The Medical College of Wisconsin physician practice includes doctors in every specialty and subspecialty of medicine.
Each year, Medical College of Wisconsin physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and psychologists care for more than 297,000 patients, representing more than one million patient visits.
Medical College of Wisconsin physicians practice at three major affiliates - Froedtert Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, and the Zablocki VA Medical Center - and many other hospitals and clinics in the Milwaukee area.
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Froedtert Hospital is the primary adult hospital affiliate of the Medical College and is staffed by College physicians providing care in all medical specialties and subspecialties. Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin are at the forefront of new technology and care in many areas, including cancer, heart and vascular diseases, brain injury and disorders, spinal cord injury, transplant, communication disorders, digestive diseases, diabetes, orthopedics, urology and women’s health. Froedtert has the only adult Level 1 Trauma Center in eastern Wisconsin. The new Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center, opening in spring 2008, will offer the full range of treatment options for every type of cancer in an optimistic healing environment where cancer specialists work together as a team to care for patients. See information at www.froedtert.com.
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Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, the principal pediatric hospital affiliate of the Medical College, is recognized as one of the leading pediatric health care centers in the United States. It is included on Child magazine’s 10 Best Children’s Hospitals list and is named by U.S. News and World Report as one of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals. Children’s Hospital is the only freestanding Level I Trauma Center in the region that cares exclusively for children and adolescents. For more information, visit the Web site at at www.chw.org.
Take a virtual tour of Children's Hospital.
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Medical College physicians are on staff at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, a major hospital affiliate of the College since 1946. The VA Medical Center provides 168 acute care hospital beds. Annually, it admits 6,400 patients and records more than 550,000 outpatient visits. It is one of the busiest and most comprehensive centers operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Approximately $15.3 million in research (funded primarily by the VA and the NIH) is conducted by College faculty at the Zablocki VA Medical Center. See information at www.visn12.med.va.gov/milwaukee.
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Clinics
Primary care clinics provided by Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin
- Internal Medicine East Clinic, Froedtert East Clinics building, 9200 W. Wisconsin Ave.
- Lincoln Avenue Clinic, 11211 W. Lincoln Ave., West Allis
- North Hills Primary Care Clinic, W129 N7055 Northfield Dr., Menomonee Falls
- Plank Road Clinic, Tosa Center, 1155 N. Mayfair Road
- Sargeant Internal Medicine Clinic, 840 N. 87th Street
- Sunnyslope Primary Care Clinic, 1350 Sunnyslope Road
- Walk In Clinic, Tosa Center, 1155 N. Mayfair Road
Clinics staffed by Medical College Family and Community Medicine physicians
Off-campus clinics providing specialty care
- Eye Institute West Clinic, N19 W24075 Riverwood Dr, Pewaukee
- General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at Downtown Health Center, 1020 N. 12th St., Milwaukee
- Otolaryngology at Greenway Medical Complex, 3365 S. 103rd St., Ste 210, Greenfield
- Pain Clinic, Tosa Center, 1155 N. Mayfair Rd.
- Psychiatry Clinics, Tosa Center, 1155 N. Mayfair Rd
- SpineCare Clinic, Tosa Center, 1155 N. Mayfair Rd
- SpineCare Clinic, 1230 Corporate Center Drive, Oconomowoc
Clinics in medically underserved areas with health care provided by the Medical College
- Hillside Clinic, 1452 N. 7th Street, Milwaukee.
- Mitchell Street Clinic, 1231 W. Mitchell St., Milwaukee.
- Saturday Clinic for the Uninsured - 1121 E. North Ave., Milwaukee.
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Regional Clinical Alliances
Medical College physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and psychologists provide services as indicated at the following health care centers in Wisconsin.
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APPLETON: Fox Cities Eye Clinic - Ophthalmology services in pediatrics and for adults with strabismus eye disorder. Affinity Heart and Lung Center - Pediatric cardiology services.
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DEPERE: Bellin Health - Pediatric gastroenterology and surgery.
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FOX VALLEY (Neenah): Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Clinics - Fox Valley - Pediatric services in cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, genetics, urology, surgery, and adult and pediatric asthma/allergy.
THEDACARE (Appleton/Neenah area) - Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College have entered into an alliance with
ThedaCare to jointly provide patient services, including endocrinology and a transplant clinic.
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GREEN BAY: St. Vincent Hospital - Pediatric endocrinology.
Aurora Bay Care Medical Center - Neonatology.
- KENOSHA: Kenosha Medical Center Campus (United Hospital System) - Adult endocrinology and rheumatology consultation services.
St. Catherine's Hospital (United Hospital System) - Radiation oncology services.
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Clinics - Kenosha (Kenosha Medical Center Campus) - Pediatric services in cardiology, child advocacy, gastroenterology, urology and pediatric and adult asthma/allergy.
- MADISON: St. Mary's Hospital - Pediatric critical care.
- MARSHFIELD: St. Joseph's Hospital - Surgery services, including pediatric heart surgery, and pediatric surgery.
- MENOMONEE FALLS: Community Memorial Hospital - Radiation oncology, OB/GYN consultation and perinatology, cardiology, pathology, pulmonary services, and neonatology.
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MILWAUKEE: Wisconsin Pediatric Cardiology - Pediatric cardiology services.
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RACINE: Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Spring Street Campus - Pediatric cardiology and genetics.
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WEST BEND: Synergy - Endocrinology consultation.
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Other Affiliates
The Medical College has affiliations with health care institutions in southeastern Wisconsin to provide residency training for physicians. They are:
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Public and Community Health
The Medical College of Wisconsin invests significantly in expanding its community mission to build strategic community-academic partnerships that have the greatest impact on Wisconsin’s most critical health needs. More than 150 faculty from over 20 departments and centers are working with greater than 200 diverse community groups to advance public and community health in the metro Milwaukee area and throughout Wisconsin.
The following College centers focus on strengthening community and individual capacity to improve health:
The following programs, directed by or involving Medical College faculty, staff and students, employ innovative approaches to health promotion and disease prevention directly in local communities:
The College's public and community health mission is complemented by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin (AHW) program, part of the College's endowment dedicated to improving the health of the people of Wisconsin. The Program awards funding and supports community-medical school partnerships. During the first two funding cycles, 49 urban, rural and statewide projects were funded for more than $10 million, involving more than 300 community and Medical College partners.
The College’s public and community health mission is complemented by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin (AHW) program, dedicated to improving the health of the people of Wisconsin through three components:
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Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program supports community-academic partnerships that address public and community health improvement.
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Research for a Healthier Tomorrow supports research initiatives in such fields as cardiovascular disease, cancer, neuroscience, genetics and population health.
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Educational Leadership for the Health of the Public supports programs that provide training for health care professionals, medical and graduate students, patients and consumers.
As of September 2007, the AHW program has awarded $55.4 million to 171 projects.
For more information on the Medical College Public and Community Health programs, see these Web pages.
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The Campus
The Medical College is one of six organizations working in collaboration on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus. Most physicians who staff the clinics and hospitals on campus are full-time faculty physicians of the College. Other campus organizations (and number of hospital beds) are:
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Curative Care Network
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Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division (270)
The College and its Medical Center affiliates employ more than 12,000 people.
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Libraries
Medical College Libraries comprise three facilities: the main research library located in the Health Research Center; and two clinical libraries, one in Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and one in Froedtert Hospital. The libraries hold among the largest health sciences collections in the Midwest, with more than 240,000 volumes and 2,500 online journals, 500 electronic books and 68 databases. The Library has an active education program training users in accessing online information. The Library is a leader in providing evidence-based-medicine resources and instruction for the Medical College community. The library is open to the public and serves a number of health consumers, including patients and their families.
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Private Support
The Medical College received more than 6,700 new gifts and pledges totaling more than $17.4 million in FY 2006-07. The College has consistantly received the highest rating from Charity Navigator, the nation's largest independent evaluator of charities. Please visit our donor Web pages.
Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.
Unrestricted Operating Revenues ($676 Million)
Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2007
Net Patient Revenue - 57%
Grants and Contracts - 20%
Affiliated Hospital Contracts - 10%
Tuition and Fees - 4%
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Other - 5%
Investment Income - 2%
Contributions - 1%
State Appropriation - 1%
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Patient Appointments
For Medical Specialties:
(414) 805-3666 / (800) 272-3666
For Pediatric Specialties:
(414) 607-5280 / (877) 607-5280
Campus Locations of Faculty & Staff
The Milwaukee Regional Medical Center is the main campus of the Medical College of Wisconsin. The campus is bordered by 87th St. on the east, Highway 45 on the west, Watertown Plank Rd. on the north and Wisconsin Ave. on the south. Follow this link to Campus Map.
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Travel directions
The Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is located on the campus of the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center. The College's main building is located on 87th St., just south of Watertown Plank Rd.
From U.S. Highway 45, use the Watertown Plank Road exit and travel east. Turn south on 87th St.
From Interstate 94, take U.S. Highway 45 north, exit at Watertown Plank Road and travel east. Turn south on 87th St.
From downtown Milwaukee, travel west on Wisconsin Ave. Turn north on 87th St.
Follow this link for additional travel directions.
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