Prospective medical students have several choices in the Chicago area.
The practice of medicine is a prestigious career that yields many financial, social, and moral benefits such as saving lives and preventing illnesses. Students seeking to pursue a career in the many medical sciences have a plethora of American institutions to choose from. In Chicago, there are medical schools that offer combined majors in various subject areas and opportunities to conduct research that could possibly cure diseases and certainly save lives.
Feinberg School of Medicine
The Feinberg School of Medicine is located at Northwestern University in Chicago and has a challenging curriculum that is designed to maximize personal connections for those pursuing clinical care, medical research, public health, and other disciplinary areas. Students are offered opportunities to learn abroad through programs coordinated with universities in Africa, South America, Mexico, and East Asia. Many faculty members have achieved national and international acclaim in their fields. In addition to the four-year MD degree, the Feinberg School of Medicine offers several combined degree programs such as the MD/MPH program that offers coursework in the areas of epidemiology, biostatistics, community health, and health services research.
Feinberg School of Medicine
303 East Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 503-8194
feinberg.northwestern.edu
Pritzker School of Medicine
The Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago offers an undergraduate degree in Chemistry that provides elective freedom for students to pursue interests in areas such as biophysics, geochemistry, and pre-medicine. The undergraduate degree in Biochemistry gives students experience in researching the mechanisms and actions of enzymes and hormones, molecular and cellular biology, biotechnology, and other related fields. The graduate Ph.D. program offers students unusual flexibility for advanced study and research that is designed to encourage individuality, independence, and excellence.
Pritzker School of Medicine
The University of Chicago
924 East 57th St., Suite 104
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-1939
pritzker.uchicago.edu
University of Illinois College of Medicine
The University of Illinois College of Medicine has campuses in Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, and Urbana. The 2,600 person student body is comprised of students who come from a variety of cultural and economic backgrounds. The college has a distinguished faculty and a total of 69 residency programs that include emergency medicine in Chicago, family practice in Peoria, rural medicine in Rockford, and internal medicine in Urbana. The groundbreaking research at the University of Illinois College of Medicine has lead to the development of a vaccine against prostate cancer and the transplantation of pancreatic islet cells to cure Type I diabetes.
University of Illinois College of Medicine
1853 West Polk St., Room 130 CMW, Mail Code 784
Chicago, IL 60612
(312) 996-3500
chicago.medicine.uic.edu
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