The School of Medicine improves health through leadership, diversity and collaborative discoveries and innovation in health care, education and research.
Learn more about our core missions:
Education, Research & Health Care
Lloyd Minor, MD
DEAN, STANFORD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
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School adds two new departments
The creation of the departments will allow the School of Medicine to continue building on its strengths in both bioscience and health-care delivery, dean says.
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Personalized, predictive, preventive care
Precision health takes a big-data approach to disease prevention and detection, focusing on the various factors that help maintain health throughout life.
Facts & Figures
Academic Community
Full-time Faculty
Basic science: 136
Clinical science: 1,812
Total: 1,948
Student Enrollment
MD candidates*: 383
MD/PhD candidates: 90
PhD candidates: 786
MS candidates: 75
Postdoctoral scholars: 1,158
Residents & clinical fellows: 1,006
* Note: number excludes the MD/PhD candidates
Faculty Excellence
Total NIH funding (2013)
$315,104,246 - The highest funding per researcher ratio in the country
7 current Nobel Prize winners
31 members of the National Academy of Sciences
