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Educating Doctors for Kansas
At the KU School of Medicine-Wichita, our mission is to educate students, residents, and physicians through patient care, service, research, and scholarly activities to improve the health of Kansans in partnership with Kansas communities.
Benefiting Wichita and Kansas
In addition to educating doctors and other health care professionals for Kansas, the KU School of Medicine-Wichita benefits the community and state by:
- bringing clinical trials to residents
- impacting the economy by $35.6 million annually, according to a 2004 study
- providing care to those in need
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Students attend the KU School of Medicine in Kansas City for their first two years where they focus on learning the basic sciences. For their third and fourth years, about 2/3 stay in Kansas City while 1/3 come to Wichita where they learn clinical skills, spending most of their time with patients.
While the majority of medical schools are tied to a hospital, the Wichita school is unique in that it’s community based with a reputation for providing medical students with incredible hands-on learning opportunities thanks to more than 1,100 paid and volunteer faculty inside three partner hospitals (Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center, Via Christi Regional Medical Center, and Wesley Medical Center) as well as in doctors’ offices across the state.
Of the 1,608 medical students who have graduated from the Wichita school since 1975, almost half have gone on to practice in Kansas compared to a national average of 29 percent of doctors who graduate from medical school and remain in that state to practice.
With the nation in serious need of doctors, particularly primary care doctors, it’s important to note that the KU School of Medicine continues to lead the nation in medical students choosing to go into family medicine with a three-year average of more than 21 percent.
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Once medical students graduate as doctors, they go on to residencies. Of those who graduate from one of the 13 programs offered by the Wichita Center for Graduate Medical Education, more than 55 percent stay in Kansas to practice. Nationally, an average of 45 percent of doctors graduated from a residency in the same state.
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In addition to educating new doctors for Kansas, the KU School of Medicine-Wichita provides educational opportunities for practicing doctors independent of commercial interests.
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Ranked as the sixth best community health graduate degree in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, the Master of Public Health degree program at the University of Kansas has campuses in both Kansas City and Wichita. KU-MPH graduates serve in a wide variety of public health fields, including clinical medicine, research, health education, disease surveillance as well as in academic settings.
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Pharmacy School – Coming Soon
With six Kansas counties without any pharmacist and 30 more with just one pharmacist, the Wichita campus will play an important role when it begins educating pharmacists for Kansas in the fall of 2011. Starting with 20 students, the school will grow to 80 students in its first four years.
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