Medical College of Wisconsin

Overview

Medical College of Wisconsin

Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is a private medical research university located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States. It was first established with the foundation of the Milwaukee Medical College in 1894. It then merged with Marquette College in 1906 and became its medical department a year later after the former's status was elevated to a university. MCW is one of only four medical schools in the country to receive the Community Engagement Classification from the Carnegie Foundation.

Medical College of Wisconsin Key Statistics

MCW comprises three schools, namely the School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the recently established School of Pharmacy. It offers a wide variety of programs that are focused on health sciences, postgraduate programs like biostatistics & data science, and doctoral degrees including biochemistry and public & community health.

The university is home to approximately 1,500 students, among whom are 995 medical students, 373 postgraduate students, 139 pharmacy students, and about 150 postdoctoral fellows. The medical school also employs a total of about 6,440 faculty and staff, of whom more than 2,000 are in faculty positions and around 4,300 are administrative staff.

Other Medical College of Wisconsin key statistics include the main campus in Wauwatosa and two additional campuses situated in Green Bay and Wausau. MCW runs three libraries that can be found at the Medical College of Wisconsin Todd Wehr Library, Froedtert Hospital, and Children’s Wisconsin. Aside from print, ebook, and journal collections, the library system provides a large electronic collection of scholarly medical information resources online.

Medical College of Wisconsin Research

MCW is recognized for its contributions to medical research. It receives funding from the federal government, patient and disease groups, and industry partners. For 2020, it has invested $300 million in research and related purposes. Research concentrations are in the general areas of medicine, pediatrics, and physiology.

Medical College of Wisconsin research teams have frequented conferences and symposia, including CLEF: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, AMIA: American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, and ICDM: International Conference on Data Mining. In terms of publications, its top disciplines are medicine, internal medicine, and surgery.

The most cited Medical College of Wisconsin research paper is Harris et al.'s (2009) "Research electronic data capture (REDCap)-A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support." The paper is published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics and has been cited 20,486 times to date. Richards et al.'s (2015) "Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology" is its second most cited work with 19,008 citations. The paper is published with the Genetics in Medicine by Springer Nature.

On the other hand, Bell et al.'s (2011) "Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma" is its third most cited publication with 5,144 citations. The paper is published in the Nature journal.

MCW houses several research centers, including the Center for Advancing Population Science, the Center for Infectious Disease Research, and the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research.