EDUCATION

The more than 1800 students at the Medical Center--the only health sciences campus in the state--prepare for degrees in the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Health Related Professions, Dentistry and Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences. The graduate program offers curricula leading to the master of combined sciences or the Ph.D. in anatomy, biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacology and toxicology and physiology and biophysics and curricula leading to the MS and Ph.D. in the clinical health sciences. Highly qualified applicants may enroll in an MD - Ph.D. program.

The School of Nursing offers the BS and the MS in nursing as well as programs leading to certification as nurse practitioner.

The School of Health Related Professions offers baccalaureate programs in clinical laboratory technology, cytotechnology, dental hygiene, health information management, occupational therapy and the entry level maters in physical therapy and a certificate program in emergency medical technology.

Students in the School of Medicine prepare for the MD and can choose form 25 postgraduate medical education specialties.

In the School of Dentistry, students earn the DMD and may enter one of two residency programs for specialty training.

RESEARCH

The Medical Center’s annual budget for research and sponsored programs is $31 million. Research at the Medical Center occurs in every department in every school. Among the currently funded projects is the giant heart disease risk factor study, ARIC--which brings $13 million to the Medical Center--and the program project grant in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics that has brought the institution more than $25 million since the beginning of its continuous funding in 1968. Called, Cardiovascular Dynamics and their Control, the grant is believed to be the longest running grant in the history of the National Institutes of Health.

The hypertension division in the Department of Medicine participates in a number of national cooperative blood pressure studies. Researchers in the School of Nursing study wound healing, and scientists in the School of Health Related Professions are exploring new drug delivery systems. Investigators in the School of Dentistry study the effects of zero gravity on bone loss and they look at saliva as markers for diseases such as breast cancer.

UMC has set up its own mechanism for funding research for pilot studies or preliminary data, for startup research funds for new faculty and to help established investigators who have emergency needs.

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