Welcome to the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus. A Top Ten Medical School, our departments, centers and institutes work with the University of Colorado Hospital, The Children's Hospital and Barbara Davis Center.

US News and World Report Rankings (2012)

 Each year we graduate:

• 156 Medical Students
• 265 Residents and Fellows
• 80 PhD Scientists
• 46 Physical Therapists
• 40 Physician Assistants

Four-Year MD Curriculum:

• Phase I & II:  18 months of integrated basic science, clinical learning, and translational thinking, organized by systems, not by medical subjects
• Phase III & IV: 28 months of newly integrated clinical rotations, in 12 blocks and 10 months of  Phase IV clinical electives
• Longitudinal Curriculum
  • Foundations of Doctoring
  • Mentored Scholarly Activities
  • Humanities, Professionalism, and Ethics
  • Medicine and Society
  • Culturally Effective Care
  • Informatics and  Evidence Based Medicine

• Colorado Urban Underserved Interprofessional Health Training and Education (CU-UNITE)
  The track will provide the skills and support needed for future health care providers serving those urban populations.
• Global Health Track

  International medicine with classroom and global experiences.
• Leadership, Education and Advocacy Development Scholarship (LEADS)

  Emphasizing the social, cultural & economic antecedents of health and illness and provide our health profession students with the vision and skills to work effectively in their communities to promote health.
• Research Track

  Providing students with in-depth long-term exposure to research.

• Rural Track

  Giving students a broad and rich experience in Rural medicine.
• Women's Care Track

  Medical students will learn to address their patients’ gender based health needs throughout their careers, no matter the specialty they select.

US News and World Report Rankings (2011)

• National Jewish Medical and Research Center. The country’s #1 respiratory hospital for over a decade.
• Children’s Hospital Colorado – Ranked #5 nationally
• The University of Colorado Hospital - Four programs ranked among  in the country; ranked 1st in the Denver metro area.
• Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC) in Aurora is the newest health care campus in the country.
• Economic impact on Colorado in clinical dollars only: $420 million annually
• Chances are you will be treated by a University of Colorado trained doctor. Half of the medical school’s graduates practice in Colorado
• The School of Medicine’s nationally prominent programs treating cancer, diabetes, heart and lung disease, mental health, and obesity, allows you to receive excellent health care in Colorado.

• 35th among all U.S. Medical Schools in US News and World Report rankings
• Economic impact on colorado in research dollars only: $425 million annually
• 7th in total federal grants and contracts among public schools; 22nd among all schools

Firsts:

• Liver transplant in the world
• Identification of “battered child” syndrome
• Use of human cell cloning to study genetics and cancer
• 3-D images of the human body derived from anatomical sections for teaching Anatomy
• Fetal cell implant for Parkinson’s Disease in the nation
• Description of Toxic Shock Syndrome
• Child Health Associate program in the country
• Nurse Practitioner education program in the country
• Fetal cell implant for the treatment of Type 1 insulin-dependent diabetes
• Vaccine for shingles

Pioneering efforts:

• Led to global eradication of smallpox
• Development of first classification of numbering system of human chromosomes, now the international standard
• Amniocentesis for intrauterine diagnosis
• In fields of Clinical Pathology, immuno-history chemistry, immunology
• In the role of smokeless tobacco and oral cancer
• Revolutionized open heart surgery, first successful series of open-heart operations under hypothermia
• In development of diagnostic ultrasound
  
  

• UC Denver has made capital investments of $950 million at Aurora’s Anschutz Medical Campus, a miracle mile of life science that has turned Colorado into one of America’s Top 20 Best Places for Biotech (Genome Technology Magazine)
• $46 million donated to indigent care in fiscal year 2011
• For every dollar the school collects from the National Institutes of Health, it returns $2.34 in business activity - the 4th highest return in the country. (Families USA Global Health Initiative)
• For every dollar the state contributes to the Medical School, the faculty attract another $50 for research and clinical work.
• The School of Medicine employs nearly 6,000 people with an annual payroll of roughly $387 million
• Those 6,000 jobs generate another 4,000 jobs outside the medical school
• The School of Medicine employees pay $17 million a year in state income taxes