As the College's first clinical facility, the MSU Clinical Center is the principal practice site for faculty and resident ambulatory primary care and outpatient consulting services. The facility is designed solely for the delivery of ambulatory care and offers a variety of health services including resident outpatient clinics, general medicine faculty clinics, subspecialty clinics, onsite physical therapy, and laboratory and radiological services including magnetic resonance imaging. The Clinical Center houses an onsite pharmacy, nurse practitioner offices, conference rooms, a computer-learning lab, and wireless Internet access throughout the facility.
At the Clinical Center, residents train with state-of-the-art electronic medical record technology. Residents become proficient in direct electronic charting and data retrieval. Electronic flow sheets, problem lists, and medication lists organize patient management and facilitate office communications. Electronic prescription renewals and drug-drug interaction assessments improve safety and efficiency of care. Physicians can trend and plot data in both tabular and graphic formats, facilitating both decision-making and patient education. Wireless technology using easily portable computers makes the entire process convenient for bedside interactions. In addition, the system is accessible to approved users over a secure Internet connection, allowing access to ambulatory records from other training sites.
Our partnership is a catalyst for change, reimagining how we think about, innovate, and deliver health and wellness. Our goal is to set a new standard for how individuals and communities experience care across the state of Michigan and the nation.
Through a joint research enterprise, a premier cancer center, and a focus on academic medical and health education of the future, this partnership is working to fight the health disparities that plague our most vulnerable communities. We’re fueled by passion, curiosity, and a little bit of grit—tirelessly developing solutions, treatments and programs to make life collectively better.
We have big goals and recognize it won’t happen overnight. We’re committed to working together with communities across the state, toward substantial change for the next 30 years and beyond. Because together, we can achieve more. Together, we can transform lives.
The MSU Libraries provides access to medical literature (primarily books, journals, multimedia resources) to support the educational, teaching, research, and clinical practice needs of faculty and students in the Colleges of Human Medicine (CHM) and Osteopathic Medicine (COM). The level of support is through the M.D./D.O. and/or Ph.D. levels including the post-Doctoral level. The majority of the collection is digital and we maintain a core print collection of major texts and other works to support users who prefer print and community-based practitioners throughout the state who use our InterLibrary Loan services. We strive to give equitable and comparable access to library resources regardless of where a student or faculty member is located. During weekday business hours you may contact your subject liaison librarian with questions. If you have questions after normal business hours or on the weekends, you can contact Reference and Discovery Services at (517) 353-8700 or use the Ask Us service.
Sparrow Hospital is a 740-bed hospital that sits within sight of the state Capitol, midway between the MSU campus and downtown Lansing. Sparrow participates with the MSU sponsored residencies in Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Psychiatry, Cardiology , Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases, and Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation. In addition to its affiliation with Michigan State University, Sparrow Hospital sponsors residency training Sparrow Hospitalprograms in Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, Electro physiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology. Special care units include a regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Hemodialysis Unit, Neurology and Spinal Cord Intensive Care Unit, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service, Level One Trauma Center, and Cardiac Catheterization and Cardiac Surgery Service.
Sparrow Hospital provides care to 120,000 patients each year. Sparrow also serves as the regional medical center for an eight-county area, providing specialty care in high-risk obstetrics, fetal and maternity services, radiation therapy, orthopedics and emergency services. While at Sparrow Hospital, Internal Medicine residents rotate in critical care medicine, inpatient general internal medicine, firm system rotations, cardiology, emergency medicine, nephrology, pulmonary medicine, radiology, and radiation oncology.
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The College of Human Medicine (CHM) has a national reputation for its history of innovation and excellence in medical student education. More than 3,100 M.D. graduates of the College have experienced a unique combination of basic science education on the campus of a large, land-grant University, and clinical education in one of six campuses located across the state of Michigan. More than 200 paid and 3200 volunteer faculty are committed to teaching core institutional values that mark CHM graduates as unique and exemplary: respect of and care for patients, commitment to community, and the incorporation of psychological, social, and spiritual elements into care delivery.
CHM was founded in 1964 in response to Michigan's need for primary care physicians. It was the first community-integrated medical school, with a curriculum that emphasized a patient-centered philosophy and a biopsychosocial approach to caring for patients. Founding faculty held the philosophies of William Osler and Francis Peabody, 19th century physicians who asserted, "the secret to the care for the patient is caring for the patient," an attitude that continues to guide the school’s curriculum and policies to this day.
The Statewide Campus System is the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine OPTI (Osteopathic Postdoctoral Training Institution). The AOA has mandated that all post-graduate training programs (residency and internship) be part of an OPTI that consists of member hospitals and a College of Osteopathic Medicine. The SCS members are listed on this web site which include 20 member hospitals and two academic members: MSUCOM and Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (KCOM). The SCS of MSUCOM provides an educational continuum of pre-doctoral through postdoctoral osteopathic education in the State of Michigan.
MSU has three resident and one fellowship programs, all accredited by ACGME – the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Graduate Medical Education has a strong, collaborative relationship with McLaren GreaterLansing, University of Michigan Health-Sparrow, and McLaren-Flint. Our partnerships provide optimal experiences for clinical, academic, and research training. This framework is supported by dedicated faculty, outstanding clinicians, mentors, and many others working for your success.
The UM Health-Sparrow Health Sciences Library supports the institutional mission of UM Health-Sparrow by providing access to comprehensive fully digital evidence-based resources for all UM Health-Sparrow team members. Resources include professional databases, indices, thousands of professional eJournals, eBooks and point-of-care tools in support of clinical decision-making. Access to UM Health-Sparrow Library resources is limited to UM Health-Sparrow team members and are available via remote login procedures.