Medical College of Wisconsin Company Information

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Vision

To be a premier Medical School that is a resource for the communities of Wisconsin and beyond.


Mission

To be a national leader in the education and development of the next generation of physicians and scientists; to discover and translate new knowledge in the biomedical sciences; to provide cutting-edge, interdisciplinary and compassionate clinical care of the highest quality; to improve the health of the communities we serve.

Patient Services

Approximately 1,200 Medical College of Wisconsin physicians 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 390,000 patients, representing nearly 1.6 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.


Education

There are more than 1,200 students enrolled in educational programs at the Medical College. This includes 817 medical students, and more than 400 graduate students.

College faculty supervise approximately 650 physicians in residency training and 200 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 40,000 health professional registrants each year.


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 2008-09, faculty received approximately $157 million in external support for research, teaching, training and related purposes, of which approximately $142 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 2009, the College received $110 million in NIH funding and ranked 43rd among the nation’s 131 medical schools for NIH research funding.

The College’s research enterprise is focused on strategic, prioritized areas of research involving interdisciplinary collaboration among scientists and physicians with the goal of rapidly translating discoveries into advances for patient care. College faculty conducted more than 2,500 research studies, including clinical trials, in FY 2008-09.


Technology Transfer

In FY 2008-09, College faculty and students reported 52 new discoveries and inventions to the College's Office of Technology Development. The College currently has 250 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 venture capital groups in Wisconsin and elsewhere. The College has licensed technologies to 47 pharmaceutical, diagnostic, biotechnology and medical device corporations.


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.


History

The Medical College of Wisconsin is a private, national, freestanding institution. The College 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, freestanding institution. Its name was changed in 1970 to The Medical College of Wisconsin. The College has approximately 13,500 alumni.