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Some of the physicians office in the OU Physicians Building constructed in 2001. OU Physicians also have offices in other areas of Oklahoma City, along with Edmond, Enid, Tulsa and other cities around the state. With more than 475 doctors and other health care providers, OU Physicians is the largest physician group in Oklahoma.
The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine was founded in 1900 and is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.In 1974, the OU College of Medicine opened a geographically separate, community-based clinical campus in Tulsa, approximately 100 miles northeast of the main campus.
Oklahoma consistently ranks as one of the top states for the number of individuals with mental illness and addiction,[3] but as one of the bottom states as far as behavioral health funding.[4] For example, while the national average of spending per individual for mental health treatment is $120.56, Oklahoma only spends $53.05.
More than 200 full-time faculty teach OU-Tulsa students and enrollment at OU-Tulsa exceeds 1,600 students. More than 1,000 employees work at the OU-Tulsa Schusterman Center and OU Physicians medical clinics throughout Tulsa. OU-Tulsa has service, education and research affiliations with more than 100 community agencies.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America – Tulsa; Carl Albert Community Mental Health Center – McAlester Carnegie Tri-County Municipal Hospital – Carnegie, Oklahoma Cedar Ridge Hospital – Oklahoma City
Stephenson Oklahoma Cancer Center on OUHSC Campus. The University of Oklahoma in Norman was founded in 1890, 17 years before Oklahoma's statehood, by the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature. In 1910, OU's fledgling two-year medical school moved to Oklahoma City and became a four-year program. [4]
On December 1, 2009, OU and the University of Tulsa announced that the two universities would collaborate to create a four-year medical school in Tulsa. [3] In 2019 the OU Tulsa School of Community Medicine graduated its first class of 30 students who had spent the entire 4-years of medical training at the Tulsa branch campus. [4]
Founded in 1943, OSU Medical Center was established as Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital by a group of osteopathic physicians who purchased a building previously used a psychiatric hospital. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The hospital name was later changed to Tulsa Regional Medical Center .