| Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science | |
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| Motto | Life in Discovery (Vita In Inventione) |
| Established | Predecessors established 1912. |
| Type | Private |
| President | K. Michael Welch, MB, ChB, FRCP |
| Academic staff | 731 |
| Location | North Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Campus | Urban, 50 acres |
| Website | www.rosalindfranklin.edu |
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS) is a private graduate school located in North Chicago, Illinois. Rosalind Franklin is a multi-disciplinary university that seeks to prepare its students to meet the nation's health care needs. The interprofessional education approach used at Rosalind Franklin has been recognized for its importance for over 40 years. Each year students from all school are divided into small groups to learn how to work in a team setting to learn that interprofessionalism mean learning from, with and about one another.
In addition, Rosalind Franklin is focused on community service and meeting the needs of its surrounding area. Through free foot clinics, the Kids 1st Heath Fair, and other community service endeavors, Rosalind Franklin seeks to give back to the community. Rosalind Franklin has also created a unique research partnership with Lake Forest College. Lake Forest College students are welcomed onto RFUMS' campus during the summer to research schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, spinal muscular atrophy, RNA biochemistry, protein synthesis, neuroanatomical networks and the biology of addiction.
It is named for Rosalind Franklin, the DNA crystallographer. Franklin was educated at a private school in London where she studied physics and chemistry from an early age, at an advanced level, especially so for a woman at that time. The Seal of the University evokes Photo 51, her X-ray diffraction pattern for B-DNA which was pivotal in the history of biology in the twentieth century. Rosalind Franklin painstakingly conceived of and captured Photo 51 of the "B" form of DNA in 1952 while at King's College in London. It is this photograph, acquired through 100 hours of X-ray exposure from a machine Dr. Franklin herself refined, that revealed the structure of DNA.[1]
The university offers over 25 study programs in graduate health-related subjects. RFUMS provides PhD programs for medical and basic research.[2]
It is located to the south of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center and the North Chicago VA Medical Center.
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The precursor of RFUMS, then known as The Chicago Hospital-College of Medicine, was founded in Chicago in 1912. A group of physicians and community leaders formed a non-profit school to serve those medical students who were able to attend only at night. From the beginning, the institution, long known as The Chicago Medical School, rejected the use of quotas to limit minority enrollment. Enrollment more than doubled during the Great Depression. The school became a haven for Jewish researchers and faculty, recruited in great numbers as they fled Nazi Europe beginning in the late 1930s. The leaders of the school believed that only a student’s merit should play a role in the admissions process.[3]
1967 marked the formation of The University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School. The University of Health Sciences was designed to build teams of health professionals, bringing diagnostic, supportive, and investigative functions of medicine together in one setting. In 1968, The University of Health Sciences established the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, followed by The School of Related Health Sciences (now The College of Health Professions) in 1970.
The University of Health Sciences was one of the first schools in the country committed to developing integrated educational programs for physicians and related health professionals. This educational model, conceived by Dr. A. Nichols Taylor, president of Chicago Medical School, and funded largely through the efforts of board chairman Herman M. Finch, brought together diagnostic, supportive and investigative functions of medicine in one setting.[4]
In 1980, the University moved from Chicago to its current location at 3333 Green Bay Road in North Chicago, and was renamed for its chairman, Herman M Finch, in 1993. The Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine, joined Finch University in 2002. In 2004, the University was again renamed, this time to Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, in honor of Dr. Rosalind Franklin, whose work with X-ray crystallography provided the data and scientific basis for description of the structure of DNA, the single most important advance of modern biology.
In October 2002, the University opened its new Health Sciences Building, a 140,000-square-foot (13,000 m2) facility that houses laboratories, auditoriums, classrooms, a student union, bookstore and the Feet First Museum. In July 2003, the University opened its first phase of student housing, making the institution a residential campus for the first time in its history. In the summer of 2003, the University completed two new facilities designed to provide the latest in medical technology to students. The Education and Evaluation Center and the John J. Sheinin, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., Gross Anatomy Laboratory provide state-of-the-art equipment and multimedia resources by which students participate in invaluable training. These facilities promote the use of integrated technologies and novel approaches to the study of human anatomy, to the practice of physical examination, and to the art of taking a patient history.[5]
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science is the premier interprofessional health sciences University with state-of-the-art facilities. The facilities include a multi-media laboratory, virtual microscopy lab and the Education and Evaluation Center with high tech opportunities for education and research.[6]
| Alumni |
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| Chicago Medical School: 6,719 |
| College of Health Professionals: 2,871 |
| College of Pharmacy: 0 |
| Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine: 4,875 |
| School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies: 1,730 |
| 2009-2010 Enrollment |
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| Chicago Medical School: 763 |
| College of Health Professionals: 720 |
| Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine: 380 |
| School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies: 52 |
| College of Pharmacy |
| Total Enrollment: 1,915 |
Today, daytime studies are also available. The school was fully accredited at the doctoral level in 1980 by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. It currently plans to build an addition at its North Chicago location with a professional pharmacy school and a nursing school to its list of health professional programs.
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| 2009 Degrees Conferred |
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| Master of Science: 217 |
| Doctor of Medicine: 182 |
| Doctor of Podiatric Medicine: 74 |
| Doctor of Physical Therapy: 46 |
| Ph.D.: 19 |
| Bachelor of Science: 3 |
The Chicago Medical School (CMS), founded in 1912, confers clinical degrees. The entering class each year is approximately 190 students. During the first two years, students enrolled at CMS study a core of basic sciences that include Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Anatomy and many more. The students then transition to clinical experiences for their third and fourth years. CMS students have completed rotations in Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Neurology, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Surgery and many other specialties. Upon completion of coursework students are awarded the Doctor of Medicine (MD).
The College of Health Professions (CHP) is a professional school which offers programs in Biomedical Sciences (MS), Clinical Counseling (MS), Clinical Laboratory Sciences (MS), Clinical Nutrition (MS), Healthcare Administration and Management (certificate, MS), Interprofessional Healthcare Studies (DSc, PhD), Medical Radiation Physics (MS, PhD), Nurse Anesthesia (MS), Nutrition Education (MS), Pathologists' Assistant (MS), Physical Therapy (MS, DPT, post-professional DPT, Fellowship), Physician Assistant (MS, Post-Graduate Residencies, Teaching Fellowship), Psychology (PhD), and Women’s Health (certificate, MS).
Rosalind Franklin University also has a school of podiatry, named the Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine. It was founded by William Scholl in 1912. The schools merged in 2001. Scholl College's program is closely integrated with CMS and other colleges at Rosalind Franklin. Scholl College students participate in multiple rounds including ER, infectious diseases, surgery and internal medicine.
Scholl College is an international leader in podiatric research. The Center for Lower Extremity Ambulatory Research (CLEAR) at Rosalind Franklin conducts research with a special emphasis on the diabetic foot and limb preservation. In 2005 Scholl College and Advocate Medical Group established the National Center for Limb Preservation at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois.
The campus has a podiatric museum, named Feet First, dedicated to Dr. William Mathias Scholl.
In addition, Rosalind Franklin University has a School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (SGPS). The school offers several programs including interdisciplinary graduate programs in biomedical sciences as well as combined MD/PhDs and DPM/PhDs.
The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies houses some of the highest quality research focused students many of whom are recipients of National Research Service Awards or private foundation grants.
Rosalind Franklin University recently announced the creation of a new College of Pharmacy (COP). The COP confers a four-year PharmD degree and prepares its students to be entry-level pharmacists. The mission of the COP is to serve the nation through excellence in pharmacy education, research, and practice, with a commitment to patient-centered interprofessional care, community service, life-long learning, and an ethos of social responsibility. The objectives of the curriculum include providing students with scientific and pharmaceutical knowledge and pharmacy practice skills, and commitment to life-long learning, interprofessional practice, communication, professionalism, leadership, and self-awareness. The COP features a clinically relevant interprofessional learning environment in which students of different healthcare professions learn from, with, and about each other in both didactic and clinical settings. During the first three years of the program, students enrolled in the COP study Basic Sciences (e.g. Biochemistry and Microbiology), Pharmaceutical Sciences (e.g. Pharmaceutics and Medicinal Chemistry) and Pharmacy Practice (e.g. Pharmacotherapy and Pharmacoeconomics) in both classroom and laboratory settings. During these years, students also receive introductory experiential education in community pharmacies, health-systems, and electives that may include research, academia, and industry. Students engage in advanced pharmacy practice experiences during the fourth year of study. These experiences include community, ambulatory, acute care, and health-systems rotations as well as elective opportunities in areas such as poison control, government and advocacy, research, academia, and industry. Located near some of the nation’s foremost pharmaceutical companies and the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, the COP provides its students with unique experiential learning opportunities. The college will matriculate its inaugural class in August 2011.