OUHSC Overview

The University of Oklahoma's Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) is the State of Oklahoma's major health professions educational institution - training physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, public health specialists and a wide range of allied health personnel.

The Mission of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, as a comprehensive academic health center, is

• to educate students at the professional, graduate and undergraduate levels to become highly qualified health services practitioners, educators and research scientists
• to conduct research and creative activities for the advancement of knowledge through teaching and development of skills
• to provide continuing education, public service and clinical care of exemplary quality

With a budget of over $400 million, OUHSC employs more than 800 full time faculty and 2,400 staff. Approximately 4,000 students are enrolled in more than seventy undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the Center's seven colleges: College of Allied Health, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Graduate College.

Health Sciences Center faculty and students use the clinical, laboratory, and teaching facilities of the OU Medical Center (which includes University Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma, and Presbyterian Hospital), the Veterans Administration Medical Center, the Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, the Oklahoma State Department of Health, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, and other affiliated hospitals in Oklahoma City, three major teaching hospitals in Tulsa, the Veterans Administration Hospital in Muskogee, and various affiliated hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities in other locations in Oklahoma.

Research, training grants and contracts, and sponsored program activities at the OU Health Sciences Center totaled more than $120 million in FY 2004.