Med school students share their stories
Five students at Indiana University School of Medicine contemplate whether to opt for family practice or a specialty.
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Indiana medical students opt for specialties, not family practice
Interest in primary care has fallen off markedly due partly to relatively low pay.
IU surgeon gets $2 million for heart pump
IU School of Medicine associate professor Mark Rodefeld will use funding to further develop the pump, intended to combat a congenital heart defect that kills many children in their first year of life.
Report: Marian med school to add $44M to economy each year
Marian University will spend more than $32 million to build a new building for its college of osteopathic medicine and expects the school to add $44 million a year to the Indianapolis-area economy.
Purdue adding medical research buildings
University will spend nearly $70 million to construct health and life science research facilities, including a drug-discovery lab, in West Lafayette.
Dean named for planned osteopathic school at Marian
Marian University in Indianapolis has named the founding dean of an Atlanta-area medical school to head up the school for
osteopathic doctors it plans to open in 2012.
IU fund-raising campaign meant to expand IUPUI, life sciences
Indiana University’s president says IU this fall will launch a $1.1 billion fund-raising campaign aimed at expanding the IUPUI
campus’ life science programs.
Indiana part of national medical school surge
Marian University’s planned medical school is one of two dozen nationally, but budget cuts are forcing Indiana University to retreat
on enrollment expansion.
Clarian, IU plan $100 million neurosciences center
Clarian Health and the Indiana University School of Medicine want their planned neurosciences hub to become a destination
for patients suffering
from brain, nerve and mental maladies—and for the government and industry research dollars that can
fuel advances in care.
IU-Kenya Partnership gets $5M USAID grant
A partnership between Indiana University School of Medicine and a medical school and hospital in Kenya has received an additional
$5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to expand health care services in the African nation.
UPDATE: Marian already has three possible locations for new medical school
St. Francis and Westview hospitals are open to hosting the osteopathic-medicine school proposed by the Indianapolis Catholic
institution.
Osteopathy and Indiana Wesleyan
The Indiana Osteopathic Association passed over a virtually certain $75 million in startup funding from Indiana Wesleyan University
to choose Marian University for its new osteopathic college.
Marian University to launch state’s second medical school
The tiny Catholic institution in Indianapolis has $30 million raised toward new college that could train nearly half as many
students as the Indiana University medical school.
IU reorganizes nuclear complex to med school oversight
Indiana University is reorganizing its Cyclotron Facility to shift oversight to its School of Medicine. The Bloomington campus’
vice provost for research previously had overseen the cyclotron, which treats cancer patients with proton therapy.
$60M Lilly Endowment grant to fund IU physician research
Indiana University, which has received nearly $600 million from the endowment over the last three decades, will leverage the
new gift to increase its
scientific discoveries and commercialize life science innovations.
Health reform could swamp doctors
Health reform that would cover millions of uninsured Americans would theoretically send a flood of new
patients to physicians. Yet in Indiana and nationwide, there’s already a shortage of doctors.
State law aims to attract doctors to areas in need of care
A state law that went into effect July 1 attempts to attract young physicians and mental health practitioners to underserved
areas by forgiving part of their student loans. But Indiana’s budget woes prevented lawmakers from allocating funds
to support the program.
IU takes statewide approach to life sciences pitch
For the last two months, two academics at Indiana University and Purdue University have been discussing how the institutions
can work together to rev up research in medicine and life sciences and, in the process, boost Indiana’s economy.