University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

The first four-year class matriculated in 1925,[2] and the entire UWSMPH moved into the state-of-the-art Health Sciences Learning Center in 2004.

Additionally, the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM) program exists for students intending to practice in rural areas, while the Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health (TRIUMPH) program exists for students interested in practicing in urban areas.

Students enrolled in TRIUMPH complete the majority of their clinical training in Milwaukee with Aurora Health Care.

[16][17] Through the Statewide Campus initiative, medical students at UWSMPH who are not enrolled in WARM or TRIUMPH also complete some of their rotations at one of the aforementioned Statewide sites outside of Madison (Gundersen Health System, Marshfield Clinic, Aurora Bay Care, or Aurora Health Care–Milwaukee).

[18] The Statewide Campus initiative is based on the Wisconsin Idea, the principle that the university's influence should benefit the people of the State of Wisconsin, famously summarized in former UW–Madison President Charles R. Van Hise's statement: "I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the University reaches every family of the state.”[19][20] Robert N. Golden was announced as Dean of the School of Medicine and Public Health in 2006.

A view of UW Health University Hospital , the Health Sciences Learning Center, and the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research rising above Lake Mendota , on the western edge of the UW–Madison campus
Wisconsin General Hospital in the 1930s. Built in 1924, this building served as the University Hospital until 1979, and housed the medical school until 2004. It is today known as the Medical Sciences Center and continues to house the school's occupational therapy program and anatomy laboratory, along with several other university departments [ 3 ]