By Amy Zacharias, MD - It is not surprising that the rate of burnout for physicians has increased. The last few years have proven especially difficult for physicians due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the many challenges that came with it. The Medscape Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2022 Stress, [...]
Join UICOMP virtually for the Class of 2026 White Coat Ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Friday, August 12, 2022, streamed live on UICOMP’s YouTube! The White Coat Ceremony is a rite of passage for medical students and was created by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation in 1993. Receiving the White Coat signifies their entrance [...]
The University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria continues to follow the evolving situation with the Coronavirus pandemic and to work closely with the University of Illinois College of Medicine (Chicago), local clinical partners and affiliates, as well as our local officials and health departments. We have made transitions in our curriculum and work [...]
The University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria will collaborate to study causes, prevention and treatment strategies for long COVID in central Illinois. The work is part of a broader collaboration led by University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) researchers that is projected to receive approximately $22 million from the National Institutes of Health over four [...]
Leaders from UICOMP and Positive Health Solutions (PHS) will announce the expansion of PHS clinical services to include primary care to the LGBTQ+ community. Expanding medical services to include primary care, as well as gender affirming care, will help fill this gap in central Illinois. The clinic’s care team is comprised of medical providers [...]
Kelli Evans has joined the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria as the Senior Director of Development. She will be responsible for leading the major gift strategy and solicitations for regional campus initiatives and will work closely with the Dean’s office, department heads and faculty in developing and implementing strategies to solicit gifts, scholarships, [...]
The University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria (UICOMP) is accepting nominations for the 2022 Community Health Awards. Nominations may be submitted online now through July 20, 2022. UICOMP sponsors these awards to recognize on-going commitment to community health promotion and/or disease prevention in our community. A healthy community requires a high quality medical [...]
By Craig Griebel, MD - As many of you know (and some of you may not know) I cut back last year to 0.6 FTE (down to 3 days a week, basically). As part of that cutting back, I gave up rounding on our residency’s Maternal Newborn Pediatric Service (MNPS) [...]
The University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria (UICOMP) awarded Shelly Timmons, MD, with its 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award. She becomes the 18th graduate (among more than 2,000 medical school alumni) to receive this honor in the College’s 52-year history. Shelly D. Timmons, MD, PhD, is chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Indiana [...]
On May 7, UICOMP welcomed 66 new doctors to the UICOMP alumni family during the Convocation ceremony at the Peoria Civic Center. After a two-year pause to the traditional in-person Convocation ceremony, the event allowed the class to celebrate their four-year journey through unprecedented times. The graduates marched in together, received their hoods and [...]
