Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

From 1959–61, several reports demonstrated the need for a third medical school in Michigan focused on serving the state's population through direct involvement in community health care.[8] In 1961, the Michigan State Board of Trustees decided to begin a two-year medical program at Michigan State University. Several grants aided the development of the program.[8] Michigan State University appointed Andrew D. Hunt, MD as the first dean of the College of Human Medicine in 1964.[8][9]

The College of Human Medicine began training pre-clinical medical students in the fall of 1966 (26 students) and the fall of 1967 (23 students).[8] After their preclinical training, these students needed to transfer to other medical schools to finish the final two years of their medical school education.[8] In 1967, the College of Human Medicine was approved for a four-year degree program. The first MDs graduated in 1972.

In 2006, Marsha D. Rappley, M.D., became the first graduate of the College of Human Medicine to become dean of the medical school.[8] In August 2007, enrollment increased from 106 first-year students to 156 students.[8] In October 2007, MSU Board of Trustees voted to approve a $90 million project to build a new educational facility in downtown Grand Rapids.[10] The construction was supported entirely with private funds, including $55 million from Spectrum Health and $5 million from Richard DeVos.[11] MSU alumnus and philanthropist Peter F. Secchia is the namesake for the facility, following his $10 million donation to the university.[12]

In September 2010, the college's headquarters moved from Fee Hall in East Lansing to the newly built Secchia Center in Grand Rapids.[13] The college's administration maintain offices at both the East Lansing and Grand Rapids campuses.

In June 2015, MSU announced plans to build an $88 million research complex, Grand Rapids Research Center, near the Secchia Center in downtown Grand Rapids.[14] The center opened in September 2017. In later 2015, Marsha Rappley stepped down as Dean of the College, and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Aron Sousa, M.D., became interim dean.[15]

On October 1, 2016, the College of Human Medicine welcomed its new dean, Norman Beauchamp Jr., MD, the second graduate of the college to serve as dean.[16]

Clinical practice (undergraduate medical education during the third and fourth years of medical school), graduate medical education, and research takes place across seven campuses located throughout Michigan Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Midland, Marquette, Southeast Michigan and Traverse City. The college previously had a Saginaw campus, but that was transitioned to the Central Michigan University College of Medicine in 2011. The campus in Kalamazoo, was transitioned to Western Michigan University in 2014. Students are assigned to one of the campuses for their third and fourth years, rather than a specific hospital. The campus administration then places students at hospitals within the campus. After submitting a request, clinical students are also able to take a clerkship at a campus other than their assigned campus. Students may fulfill clerkship electives outside of the MSU system only in their fourth year.

Grand Rapids

MSU CHM Secchia Center.

The Grand Rapids campus serves as both a pre-clinical and clinical campus.[17]

• Spectrum Butterworth Hospital
• Saint Mary's Health Care
• Spectrum Blodgett Hospital

Flint

The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in Flint, in the former Flint Journal Building

The Flint campus utilizes three area hospitals.[18]

• Ascension Genesys Hospital
• Hurley Medical Center
• McLaren Regional Medical Center

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• Official website
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