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Stanford University School of Medicine provides an educational environment that encourages intellectual diversity and offers stimulation and opportunity for self-motivated students. The programs emphasize the faculty's belief that a Stanford education should prepare students for a lifetime of continued learning. Curricular flexibility allows each student to pursue individual goals and to develop special interests within a supportive and collegial environment. More than two hundred basic science faculty as well as four hundred others in the clinical disciplines provide an extraordinary range of teaching and research opportunities.
The curriculum for students in the MD program strives to develop in all students the capacity for leadership in the clinical practice of scientific medicine, and to prepare as many students as possible for careers in research and teaching in the various branches of basic, clinical and social medicine.
Students entering the PhD or Master's degree programs have a unique opportunity for exposure to all affiliated programs in Biosciences, prior to a final choice of an area of study. Graduates of these programs are leaders in their fields, whether they choose careers in academic, business, or governmental settings.
After completing classroom work, students gain clinical experience through clerkships at Stanford University Hospital, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, and other teaching institutions affiliated with the School of Medicine. Following graduation, interns and residents continue specialty training as house staff officers in hospitals throughout the United States.
Students enrolled in the School's Medical Scientist Training Program earn both MD and PhD degrees by completing a minimum of five years of research and clinical training. Many research scientists pursue advanced training as postdoctoral scholars in the laboratories of faculty members at Stanford.
See also these related resources:
- School of Medicine Catalog
- Departments and Divisions
- Faculty Research Interests for the School of Medicine
- Stanford University Facts
School History
More than 100 years of medical excellence
In 1908, Stanford University adopted the Cooper Medical College in San Francisco as its School of Medicine. The medical school flourished in "the City" as a premier medical center until the 1950s, when the Board of Trustees decided, after much debate, to move the school from San Francisco to the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto. The move to "the Farm" took place in 1959, when the new Stanford University Hospital was opened. Since the late 1950's, faculty at the School of Medicine have contributed to many clinical milestones that have helped cement Stanford’s international reputation for medical achievement.
During the 1980's the Hospital and School launched a major building program. In 1989 a new adult hospital was added to the Medical Center with 20 new operating rooms, a state-of-the-art cath-angio suite, intensive care and inpatient units and extensive support facilities. In 1991 a beautiful new Children's Hospital, the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, was built adjacent to the adult hospital. Construction is expected to begin in the spring of 2001 on a new Clinical Cancer Center that will house facilities for the Divisions of Surgical Oncology, Medical Oncology, and Radiation Oncology. The Center will also be equipped with OR suites for outpatient surgical procedures, as well as dedicated areas for advanced laparoscopic surgery.
Stanford University Medical Center and the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center merged in 1997, forming UCSF Stanford Health Care. In early 2000 the two medical centers became independent entities.
The
shield
The Stanford School of Medicine shield was designed by Stanford chemistry professor and heraldry expert Eric Hutchinson in 1967. The symbol combines the snake-entwined staff of Aesculapius, denoting life, on a background of green, the color traditionally associated with medicine. The triple redwood frond represents the ever-growing university and the tripartite community of students, faculty and alumni. The two interlocked red squares evoke the architectural motif found on the façade of the Stanford Medical Center.
More history
Interested in more details? Read Stanford University School of Medicine
and Predecessor Schools, An Historical Perspective, by John L. Wilson,
M.D.
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