Chicago Medical School
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The Chicago Medical School is one of the graduate schools of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
. Founded in 1912, The Chicago Medical School (CMS) has nearly a 100 year history of a broadly-based socially constructive admission process relatively unlike that of other medical colleges. CMS was originally founded as a night school. Under the leadership of Dean John J. Sheinin CMS achieved full American Medical Association approval.
The non-profit Chicago Medical School operated from the beginning on the principle that admission should be based on merit alone. In particular, "Chicago Med" admitted women and minority applicants decades earlier than most professionals schools. As the school's 1912-13 bulletin states, "[I]t is the firm belief of the Faculty of this school that there are deserving men and women, who, if given a second opportunity, will soon 'catch up' with and even surpass those students who have had earlier opportunities and advantages." http://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/dnn/portals/lifeindiscovery/history/index.html It delivered quality medical education to a wide range of students, by now numbering in the tens of thousands.
In 1935, Dr. John J. Sheinin became Dean and decided that the school must be saved. Prior to Dr. Sheinin, and due to CMS's lack of affiliation with a hospital the school had been struggling with financial problems. To help keep the school open in the 1940s, a wealthy retired Chicago businessman named Lester North Selig issued a challenge to his contemporaries in Chicago's business world: Did they or did they not support a medical school where admission was based on merit alone? By 1948, Dr. Sheinin had won accreditation for the school by consistently strengthening its curriculum along with its financial and community support.
Also under Dr. Sheinin the American Plan was developed. This policy stuck to the original policy of admission solely based on merit. Eleanor Roosevelt
praised the plan in her nationally syndicated "My Day column:
CMS has a long history of public philanthropy and was one of the first to encourage students to perform community service as a natural outgrowth of a medical education. Students were historically required to serve in the Medical Clinic Free Dispensary and the Chicago Maternity Center in order to graduate. Currently students participate in many community service projects supporting the local community. In the view of former Dean Arthur J. Ross, III, "The current generation of students is the most altruistic, service-oriented generation ever to come through health care training- including generations older than me. It's the icing on the cake for them to study in a place that supports their service." http://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/dnn/chicagomedicalschool/home/CMS/tabid/821/Default.aspx
The Chicago Medical School currently has 763 students enrolled and over 6,500 alumni spread across the country practicing all specialties of medicine.
, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
, Mount Sinai Medical Center
, Advocate Christ Hospital, Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital, and Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
.
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science 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...
. Founded in 1912, The Chicago Medical School (CMS) has nearly a 100 year history of a broadly-based socially constructive admission process relatively unlike that of other medical colleges. CMS was originally founded as a night school. Under the leadership of Dean John J. Sheinin CMS achieved full American Medical Association approval.
The non-profit Chicago Medical School operated from the beginning on the principle that admission should be based on merit alone. In particular, "Chicago Med" admitted women and minority applicants decades earlier than most professionals schools. As the school's 1912-13 bulletin states, "[I]t is the firm belief of the Faculty of this school that there are deserving men and women, who, if given a second opportunity, will soon 'catch up' with and even surpass those students who have had earlier opportunities and advantages." http://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/dnn/portals/lifeindiscovery/history/index.html It delivered quality medical education to a wide range of students, by now numbering in the tens of thousands.
In 1935, Dr. John J. Sheinin became Dean and decided that the school must be saved. Prior to Dr. Sheinin, and due to CMS's lack of affiliation with a hospital the school had been struggling with financial problems. To help keep the school open in the 1940s, a wealthy retired Chicago businessman named Lester North Selig issued a challenge to his contemporaries in Chicago's business world: Did they or did they not support a medical school where admission was based on merit alone? By 1948, Dr. Sheinin had won accreditation for the school by consistently strengthening its curriculum along with its financial and community support.
Also under Dr. Sheinin the American Plan was developed. This policy stuck to the original policy of admission solely based on merit. Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...
praised the plan in her nationally syndicated "My Day column:
The American Plan...is simply a plan of nondiscrimination. Only two considerations govern the admission rules of [Chicago Medical School]- character and scholarship merit.
One wishes that more schools and colleges and universities throughout the county would have the courage to set their standards high, but to eliminate two questions that all too often one finds on a request for admission: What is your race and what is your religion? It seems to me that these questions have no bearing on one's right to an education in whatever field of learning one has chosen to follow. The should have no bearing, either, on one's success in whatever profession that is prepared for.http://rosalindfranklin.edu/dnn/administration/Admissions/CMS/tabid/1642/Default.aspx
CMS has a long history of public philanthropy and was one of the first to encourage students to perform community service as a natural outgrowth of a medical education. Students were historically required to serve in the Medical Clinic Free Dispensary and the Chicago Maternity Center in order to graduate. Currently students participate in many community service projects supporting the local community. In the view of former Dean Arthur J. Ross, III, "The current generation of students is the most altruistic, service-oriented generation ever to come through health care training- including generations older than me. It's the icing on the cake for them to study in a place that supports their service." http://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/dnn/chicagomedicalschool/home/CMS/tabid/821/Default.aspx
The Chicago Medical School currently has 763 students enrolled and over 6,500 alumni spread across the country practicing all specialties of medicine.
Teaching Affiliation
Hospital affiliates include the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care CenterCaptain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center
The Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center , opened Oct. 1, 2010, and is the United States' first federal health care center that partners the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense into a single, fully integrated federal health care...
, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
The John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, formerly Cook County Hospital is a public urban teaching hospital in Chicago that provides primary, specialty and tertiary healthcare services to the five million residents of Cook County, Illinois. The hospital has a staff of 300 attending...
, Mount Sinai Medical Center
Mount Sinai Medical Center, Chicago
Mount Sinai Medical Center is a 590-bed urban major hospital in Chicago, Illinois, with its main campus located adjacent to Douglas Park. The hospital was established in 1912 under the name Maimonides Hospital, with a mission of serving poor immigrants from Europe while providing training to Jewish...
, Advocate Christ Hospital, Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital, and Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, located in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois, is a Level I trauma center.Advocate Lutheran General Hospital is also a 645-bed teaching, research and referral hospital, and one of the largest hospitals in the Chicago area...
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