A Message From the Dean

Defining community-based medicine has been at the core of our educational philosophy at the College of Medicine at Rockford since its inception in 1972. We have demonstrated this at the community level as well as nationally and internationally. We continue, for example, to require the longest exposure in ambulatory teaching of any medical school in the country. Our role as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center provides a focal point for reform in the training of generalists and a model for developing programs in community-based medicine. Additionally, our Rural Medical Education program is gaining tremendous momentum as we uniquely train future rural physicians. We look forward to the development of our National Center for Rural Health Professions to help make strides in this endeavor.

We are proud to have renowned biomedical scientists making cutting-edge discoveries in our labs and excellent dedicated primary care physicians precepting our students. These efforts have been complemented by a much larger group of community physicians representing the medical staffs of our three affiliate hospitals, multiple medical and surgical specialties and the community at large.

Above all, we strive to make the College of Medicine at Rockford, with its clinics and health centers, a nurturing environment, in which students are provided the tools to learn and patients are provided the treatment and compassion to heal. The University of Illinois is truly an environment of excellence attracting more and more stellar students and unparalleled faculty and staff.

Please, peruse these pages to learn more about our fine institution. If you are left with additional questions or have comments to share, please contact me at the following address.

University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford

Dean Martin S. Lipsky, MD

1601 Parkview Ave.

Rockford, IL 61107

Phone: 815-395-5600

Fax:815-395-5887

E-mail: Mlipsky@ uic.edu