The Pritzker School of Medicine is the M.D.-granting unit of the Biological Sciences Division of the

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. It is located on the university's main campus in the historic Hyde Park neighborhood of

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and matriculated its first class in 1927. The medical school offers a full-time Doctor of Medicine degree program, joint degree programs, graduate medical education, and continuing medical education.

Rankings

'' U.S. News & World Report'', in its 2022 edition of rankings, ranked Pritzker School of Medicine #34 in "Best Medical Schools: Primary Care" and #17 in "Best Medical Schools: Research".

History

Interest in opening a medical school at the University of Chicago began in 1898 when the university became affiliated with

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while Chicago endeavored to establish funds for the construction of a medical school. The affiliation with Rush Medical College continued until 1942. In 1916, the university's Board of Trustees set aside $5.3 million for its development, but

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delayed its construction until 1921. With construction complete in 1927, the school matriculated its first class of medical students. Following a $16 million gift from the Pritzker family of Chicago (founders of the

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hotel group) to the University of Chicago, the School of Medicine was renamed in their honor in 1968. Pritzker was the first medical school to hold the now international tradition of the

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in 1989, which celebrates the students' transition and commitment to a lifelong career as a physician.

Admissions

For the entering Class of 2016–2017, 5,640 people applied and 719 interviewed for 88 spots in the class. Accepted applicants had a median GPA of 3.88 and median

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score of 520.

Education

The Pritzker School of Medicine offers the

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(M.D.) degree. The school offers joint doctorate degrees through its Medical Scientist Training Program, Growth, Development, and Disabilities Training Program and MD-PhD Programs in Medicine, the Social Sciences, and Humanities. Joint master degrees are offered in business, law, and policy. The school's primary teaching hospital is the

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. In July 2008, Pritzker entered into a teaching affiliation with

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Notable alumni

* Clark L. Anderson, class of 1964, immunologist and Professor Emeritus,

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, class of 1981, American immunologist and geneticist. Together with Jules A. Hoffmann, he received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for "their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity". *

Ernest Beutler Ernest Beutler (September 30, 1928 – October 5, 2008) was a German-born American hematologist and biomedical scientist. He made important discoveries about the causes of a number of diseases, including anemias, Gaucher disease, disorders of i ...

, class of 1950, German-born American hematologist and biomedical scientist. He made important discoveries about the causes of a number of diseases, including anemias, Gaucher disease, disorders of iron metabolism and

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. *

Richard Kekuni Blaisdell Richard Kekuni Akana Blaisdell (March 11, 1925 – February 12, 2016), was professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in Honolulu, and a longtime organizer in the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement. Blaisdell was the co-fou ...

, class of 1948, professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Hawaiʻi in Honolulu, and a longtime organizer in the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement. *

David Bodian David Bodian (15 May 1910 – 18 September 1992) was an American medical scientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who worked in polio research. In the early 1940s he helped lay the groundwork for the eventual development of ...

, class of 1937, American medical scientist whose work helped lay the groundwork for the eventual development of polio vaccines by combining neurological research with the study of the pathogenesis of polio. *

Robert M. Chanock Robert Merritt Chanock (July 8, 1924 – July 30, 2010) was an American pediatrician and virologist who made major contributions to the prevention and treatment of childhood respiratory infections in more than 50 years spent at the National Instit ...

, class of 1947, American pediatrician and virologist who made major contributions to the prevention and treatment of childhood respiratory infections. *

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, class of 1983, co-founder and CEO/CSO of the immunoinformatics company EpiVax. * Robert Gallo, GME 1965, known for his role in the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and in the development of the HIV blood test. *

Todd Golub Todd R. Golub is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, the Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, and thDirectorand a founding member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Har ...

, class of 1989, Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, the Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and a founding member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. *

Clarence Lushbaugh Clarence Chancelum Lushbaugh, Jr. (March 15, 1916 – October 13, 2000) was an American physician and pathologist. He was considered an expert in radiological accidents and injuries, as well as a pioneer in radiation safety research, and he is ...

, Ph.D class of 1942, M.D. class of 1948, pathologist and radiobiological specialist *

Sara Branham Matthews Sara Elizabeth Branham Matthews (1888–1962) was an American microbiologist and physician best known for her research into the isolation and treatment of '' Neisseria meningitidis'', a causative organism of meningitis. Biography Branham wa ...

, PhD class of 1923, MD class of 1934, was an American microbiologist and physician best known for her research into the isolation and treatment of ''Neisseria meningitidis'', a causative organism of meningitis. * Anne L. Peters, class of 1983, endocrinologist, diabetes expert, and professor of clinical medicine at the

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* Joseph Ransohoff, class of 1941, pioneer in the field of neurosurgery; founder of the first neurosurgical intensive care unit; chief of neurosurgery at N.Y.U. Medical Center *

Gerald Reaven Gerald M. "Jerry" Reaven (July 28, 1928 – February 12, 2018) was an American endocrinologist and professor emeritus in medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, United States. Reaven's work on insulin resi ...

, class of 1953, noted researcher of diabetes and

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. *

Janet Rowley Janet Davison Rowley (April 5, 1925 – December 17, 2013) was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers, thus proving that cancer is a genetic disease. ...

, class of 1948, American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers. * Arthur K. Shapiro, class of 1955, psychiatrist and expert on Tourette syndrome. *

Donald F. Steiner Donald Frederick Steiner (July 15, 1930 – November 11, 2014) was an American biochemist and a professor at the University of Chicago. Birth and education Donald F. Steiner was born in 1930 in Lima, Ohio. He completed his B.S. in Chemistry ...

, class of 1956, an American biochemist and discoverer of

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References

External links

Pritzker School of MedicineGuide to the University of Chicago Department of Medicine Records 1940-1942
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University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
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