Indiana University School of Medicine

1. It provides its students with the opportunity to acquire a sound basic education in medicine and fosters the development of lifelong habits of scholarship and service;

2. It advances knowledge through research in biomedically oriented studies, and studies related to the cultural and behavioral aspects of medicine and the delivery of health care;

3. It provides graduate education in order to produce practitioners, teachers, and investigators through clinical residency programs and advanced degree programs in the basic medical sciences;

4. It offers continuing education programs aimed at maintaining and improving the competence of those professionals engaged in patient care; and

5. It provides multiple services to the people of the state of Indiana in all areas of the medical sciences and health care.

The Indiana University School of Medicine was founded in 1903 and its first students were enrolled on the Bloomington campus. It was the fourth medical school in the United States, after Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Western Reserve, to require two or more years of collegiate work for admission. The school awarded the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree to its first class of 25 in 1907. Following the union of all medical schools in the state with Indiana University in 1908, the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, in 1909, mandated that Indiana University assume the responsibility for medical education in the state. Initially, students had the opportunity of taking the first two years of their medical school work at either Bloomington or Indianapolis. In 1912 all students entered through the Bloomington program and moved to Indianapolis for their second-, third-, and fourth-year courses. This remained in effect until 1958, when the work of the Bloomington division was transferred to Indianapolis. Excellent facilities for the teaching of the basic medical sciences and a strong nucleus of basic science faculty remained in Bloomington. Consequently, in 1959 a new experimental program of medical education was started in Bloomington in cooperation with the College of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School. This program, the Medical Sciences Program, included studies that could lead to combined M.D./M.S. and M.D./Ph.D. degrees.

In 1966 a faculty committee of the School of Medicine recommended the adoption of a comprehensive plan for medical education throughout the state of Indiana. The plan involved the use of regional facilities in addition to those of the Medical Center in Indianapolis. The plan would coordinate and utilize elective programs in community hospitals, preceptorships with practicing physicians, internship and residency programs, and continuing medical education programs throughout the state.

The plan also resulted in the formation, within existing educational institutions, of ‘‘Centers for Medical Education’’ for teaching basic medical science courses to first-year medical students. In 1971 the General Assembly of the State of Indiana unanimously authorized legislation that led to the completion of the Indiana Statewide Medical Education System. This legislation mandated that the Indiana University School of Medicine be responsible for selection, admission, and assignment of students, for curricular development, and for evaluation and accreditation of the system. The institutions presently involved in this program, in addition to the Medical Sciences Program at Indiana University Bloomington, are Purdue University, the University of Notre Dame, Ball State University, Indiana State University, the University of Evansville, and Indiana University Northwest. In addition, a first-year program was initiated in 1981 at the Fort Wayne Center for Medical Education on the campus of Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne. The school awarded 262 M.D. degrees and enrolled a total of 1,110 students during the 1998-99 academic year.

Further development of the Indiana Statewide Medical Education System was approved in the 1979 Indiana General Assembly. Approval for planning and funding for a second year of medical study at each of the Centers for Medical Education was passed. Consequently, second-year students were first appointed to all centers except Fort Wayne in the fall 1980 semester. Funding for second-year students at the Fort Wayne campus began in the fall of 1990.

Continuing education experiences are provided to physicians throughout the state of Indiana through the Medical Television Network (MTN), a biomedical communication closed-circuit broadcast facility linking Indiana University School of Medicine to more than 50 hospitals and regional centers, with programming eight hours a day, Monday through Friday. In addition, a videocassette mailing network extends service to more than 120 hospitals. The mission of the school is broad, and the hub of the Indiana Statewide Medical Education System is the Indiana University School of Medicine on the Medical Center campus in Indianapolis.

The Medical Center campus occupies some 85 acres approximately one mile from the center of Indianapolis. Instruction in the preclinical years is concentrated in the VanNuys Medical Science Building. This unit, housing six basic science departments, offers every modern facility for medical education and research. Instructional facilities are dedicated to the School of Medicine at the Centers for Medical Education. These are located in Haggar Hall at the University of Notre Dame campus, in Lynn Hall at the Purdue University main campus, in Maria Bingham Hall on the campus of Ball State University, in Holmstedt Hall on the campus of Indiana State University, in the Health Sciences Building at the University of Evansville, and in the Medical Educational Resource Center on the Indiana University Northwest campus. The Medical Sciences Program is housed in Jordan Hall on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University. At Indianapolis, the former School of Medicine building, now Emerson Hall, has been remodeled to accommodate the expanded clinical departments. In addition, the campus is the site of James William Fesler Hall, which houses the clinical laboratories, offices of the dean of medicine, and offices and laboratories. Also at the Medical Center are the Administration Building, Robert W. Long Hospital, William H. Coleman Hall, University Hospital, James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children with its connected wings for pediatric and cancer research, Rotary Building, Clinical Building, Ball Residence for Nurses, School of Nursing Building, School of Dentistry, Psychiatric Research Institute, Union Building, Aldred S. Warthin Apartments for married students, and a service building.

Half of the first- and second-year classes are on the IUMC campus; the other half are on one of eight campuses throughout Indiana located on or near IU and other universities in the state. Including the third- and fourth-year students, nearly 1,110 M.D., 200 Ph.D. and 35 M.D./ Ph.D. students are on the IUMC campus. During these years, the M.D. students participate in rotations to physician offices and hospitals throughout the state.

The School of Medicine includes several facilities on the IUMC campus including Fesler Hall, VanNuys Medical Sciences Building, Indiana Cancer Pavilion, IU Cancer Research Institute, the Rotary Building and Emerson Hall. The William H. Coleman Hospital, Robert W. Long Hospital and the Willis D. Gatch Clinical Building have been renovated to provide research and administrative offices at IUSM.

Hospitals that are staffed by IUSM faculty and provide residency training programs on the IUMC campus include:Wishard Memorial Hospital (a city-county hospital recently listed among the top 100 U.S. public hospitals), Roudebush VA Medical Center, LaRue Carter Psychiatric Hospital (state owned), and Riley Hospital for Children and Indiana University Hospital and Outpatient Center. Riley and IU hospitals separated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1997 to join Methodist Hospital of Indiana to form Clarian Health Partners. Clarian Health is committed to the School’s mission of advancing education, research and patient care. Located approximately two miles from IUMC, Methodist Hospital provides additional significant educational opportunities to IU students and residents.

The Clarian Health Partners—Riley Hospital for Children, IU Hospital, and Methodist Hospital of Indiana—admitted 66,788 patients in 1999. They recorded 948,085 outpatient visits. Wishard Health Services admitted 20,924 patients in 1999 and recorded 651,493 outpatient visits. Roudebush Medical Center admitted 6,223 patients and recorded 344,800 outpatient visits. The hospitals host 30 residency programs with 929 residents and provide clinical experiences in both in-patient and out-patient facilities to second through fourth-year students. IUSM’s nearly 800 teaching faculty staff at all the hospitals. In addition, the hospitals host educational programs for nursing, dentistry and allied health sciences students as well as Purdue pharmacy doctoral students.