Institutional Overview
About Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC)
AMC is a healthcare campus dedicated to fostering collaboration among students, researchers and clinicians and the largest academic health center between Chicago, Texas and the West Coast.
The campus consists of three zones that promote collaboration and innovation:
- Education zone with remarkable facilities for training future physicians and other health professionals;
- Research zone with ground-breaking, internationally renowned research;
- Clinical care zone with the University of Colorado Hospital and The Children's Hospital, the University of Colorado School of Medicine's primary adult and pediatric hospital partners, nearby.
AMC is home to six schools and colleges:
- School of Dental Medicine
- School of Medicine
- College of Nursing
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Colorado School of Public Health
- Graduate School
School of Medicine
The Physical Therapy Program is housed within the School of Medicine (SOM). The University of Colorado School of Medicine is committed to lifelong and interdisciplinary learning for health care professionals. CU School of Medicine programs seek individuals who will dedicate their professional life to skilled and compassionate healing.
Interprofessional Education
The CU Center for Interprofessional Practice & Education (CUCIPE) program is a longitudinal curriculum that integrates preclinical and clinical training for all of our health profession students. The IPE program goal is to improve population health, quality of care, and reduce health care costs through the creation of a patient-centered, collaborative, practice ready workforce.