<p>nice news for uab this week…96% of their grads matched for residency programs!</p>
<p>this year 38K students were trying for 27K slots</p>
<p>[UAB</a> again strong on medical school Match Day on Vimeo](<a href=“http://vimeo.com/38659712]UAB”>http://vimeo.com/38659712)</p>
<p>Great news!</p>
<p>Great med school!</p>
<p>m2ck… i think that placement really speaks to the quality of the med school… don’t you have one thinking of applying there?.. great news to know that the liklihood of a match is so high!!!</p>
<p>Yes, son will definitely be applying to the med school…can’t beat it…great SOM and great price for instate (fingers-crossed!!!)</p>
<p>I think people scratch their heads and think, “a top SOM in Alabama???”</p>
<p>Even on the pre-med forum, I’ll see people list the top 30 or so SOMs, and not include UAB on their lists…they’ll skip right over it and include the lower ranked ones.</p>
<p>In the 2012 edition of US News and World Report, the University of Alabama School of Medicine was ranked #30 nationally in research and #10 nationally in primary care [5].
Five medical specialties at UAB are ranked in the top 20 nationally by the magazine: AIDS, 4th; women’s health, 8th; internal medicine 18th; geriatrics, 19th; and pediatrics, 19th. The school’s primary care program was ranked 34th. In funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), eight departments within the School of Medicine ranked in the top 10; Anatomy/Cell Biology (No.1). Other departments in the top five are Surgery (No. 2), Obstetrics/Gynecology (No. 3) and Physical Medicine (No. 4). </p>
<p>In 1960, Dr. Basil Hirschowitz was the first to explore the stomach with his new invention, the fiber optic endoscope, which is now in the Smithsonian Institution.</p>
<p>UAB heart surgeon, the late John W. Kirklin, developed a computerized intensive care unit that became a model for modern ICUs around the world. They help improve care and reduce complications. Kirklin initially gained fame by improving the safety and usefulness of the heart-lung bypass pump.</p>
<p>The Diabetes Research and Education Hospital was dedicated in March 1973, as the first public, university-affiliated diabetes hospital in the nation.</p>
<p>In 1977, Dr. Richard Whitley administered systemic antiviral for the treatment of the deadly HSV (herpes simplex virus) encephalitis, leading to the world’s first effective treatment for a viral disease.</p>
<p>The first use in the United States of color doppler echocardiography for visualizing internal cardiac structures was introduced by Dr. Navin C. Nanda and occurred at UAB Hospital in 1984.</p>
<p>World’s first genetically engineered mouse-human monoclonal antibody was used at University Hospital in the treatment of cancer in 1987.</p>
<p>The first simultaneous heart-kidney transplant in the Southeast was performed at UAB by Drs. David C. McGiffin and David Laskow in 1995.</p>
<p>The journal Science named three UAB faculty, Drs. Michael Saag, George Shaw, and Beatrice Hahn, among the top 10 AIDS researchers in the country, and highlighted the AIDS research program at UAB in 1996.</p>
<p>The AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Unit (AVEU) became the first evaluation unit to enter a Phase III trail of an AIDS vaccine in 1999.</p>
<p>UAB’s Kidney Transplantation Program is the world’s leading transplant program, with more than 5,000 transplants being performed since 1968. In each of the last seven years, more kidney transplants have been performed at UAB than at any other institution in the world. UAB is also a national leader in other organ transplants.</p>
<p>The UAB AIDS Center was the first to perform clinical trails of the protease inhibitor Indinavir (Crixivan), one of the first protease inhibitors used in the [triple drug cocktail] to fight HIV.</p>
<p>UAB researchers were the first to discover the protein that led to the development of the now well-known drug Viagra, causing what some have called the second sexual revolution.</p>
<p>^^^And the new Children’s Hospital is opening this summer. It sounds like it’s going to be a wonderful facility.</p>