UC Medical Centers at Glance
- College
of Medicine
founded in 1819 as the Medical College of Ohio, first medical college
west of the Allegheny Mountains
- College
of Pharmacy
founded in 1850 as the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, the first pharmacy
college west of the Alleghenies
- College
of Nursing
founded in 1889 as the Cincinnati Training School for Nurses, became
one of two schools to offer the nation's first baccalaureate degree
in nursing
- College of Allied Health Sciences founded in '98 to unite programs spread throughout the university, including communication disorders, nutrition, genetic counseling, medical technology and physical therapy
UC
Medical Center FIRSTS
- First emergency
medicine residency program in the nation
- Country's first
medical laser laboratory
- First legal-nursing
baccalaureate program (begun in '99) and one of the oldest nursing master's
degree programs in the country (offered in '56)
- Nation's first
university-based environmental research center
- Country's first
physical medicine and rehabilitation residency program
- One of the country's
first Family Practice residency programs, which helped pioneer the return
of the family doctor to U.S. health care
- State's first
biomedical engineering department at a public university
- The Tristate's
only eye pathology lab
- Region's first
and only training program for medical-oncology fellows and residents
UC Medical Center ACHIEVEMENTS
- Pioneered orthopaedic
joint replacement, particularly total bilateral hip replacement
- Educated 80 percent
of Greater Cincinnati physicians
- Developed a treatment
to reduce brain damage in stroke patients
- Developed the
heart-lung machine and the Fogarty heart catheter
- Developed the
first oral polio vaccine and the antihistamine Benadryl
- Owns a nuclear
magnetic resonance machine so high-tech that it is one of only 15 in
the world
- Operates a major
transplantation center for heart, liver, kidney, kidney-pancreas and
bone-marrow transplants
- Serves as the
region's major adult burns-treatment center
- Boosted the Tristate's
economy in '99 with a $3.05 billion economic impact, as measured in
conjunction with its affiliates
