Stanford University School of Medicine

Coordinates: 37°26′04″N 122°10′34″W / 37.43444°N 122.17611°W / 37.43444; -122.17611
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Stanford University
School of Medicine
TypePrivate medical school
Established1908; 116 years ago (1908)
Parent institution
Stanford University
DeanLloyd B. Minor
Academic staff
801
Students3,498
Postgraduates1,158
Location, ,
United States

37°26′04″N 122°10′34″W / 37.43444°N 122.17611°W / 37.43444; -122.17611
CampusSuburban
Vice DeanLinda M. Boxer
Websitemed.stanford.edu

The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, United States. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Francisco in 1858. This medical institution, then called Cooper Medical College, was acquired by Stanford in 1908. The medical school moved to the Stanford campus near Palo Alto, California, in 1959.

The School of Medicine, along with Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, is part of Stanford Medicine. Stanford Health Care was ranked the fourth best hospital in California (behind UCLA Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and UCSF Medical Center, respectively).[1]

History[edit]

In 1855, Illinois physician Elias Samuel Cooper moved to San Francisco in the wake of the California Gold Rush. In cooperation with the University of the Pacific (also known as California Wesleyan College), Cooper established the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, the first medical school on the West Coast, in 1858, on Mission Street near 3rd Street in San Francisco. However, in 1862 Cooper died, and without his leadership, the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific became moribund.[2]

In 1870, Cooper's nephew, Levi Cooper Lane, reactivated and reorganized the University of the Pacific's medical department, and, in 1882, Lane donated a new building at the intersection of Webster and Sacramento Streets and established the department as a separate school, the Cooper Medical College.[3][4] Lane built a hospital and a nursing school and made provision for the creation of Lane Medical Library.[3]

In 1908, Cooper Medical College was deeded to Stanford University as a gift.[5] It became Stanford's medical institution, initially called the Stanford Medical Department and later the Stanford University School of Medicine.[6] In the 1950s, the Stanford Board of Trustees decided to move the school to the Stanford main campus near Palo Alto. The move was completed in 1959.[7] The San Francisco medical campus became Presbyterian Hospital and later California Pacific Medical Center.[8]

In the 1980s, the Medical Center launched a major expansion program. A new hospital was added in 1989 with 20 new operating rooms, state of the art intensive care and inpatient units, and other technological additions. The Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine opened in May 1989 as an interdisciplinary center focusing on the molecular and genetic basis of disease.[9] The Lucile Packard Children's Hospital was completed in 1991, adding even more diversity to Stanford Medicine.

Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge.

In the early years of the 21st century, the School of Medicine underwent rapid construction to further expand teaching and clinical opportunities. The Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge opened in 2010; it serves as the gateway to the School of Medicine as well as providing a new model of medical education by combining biomedical research with clinical education and information technology. The Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building also opened in 2010; it is the largest stem cell and regenerative medicine facility in North America.[10] The Stem Cell Research Building is the first of the planned Stanford Institutes of Medicine. In addition to research facilities, it houses offices for faculty from the Stanford Cancer Center and "hotel space" offices for visiting researchers.[10]

Academic programs and students[edit]

The School of Medicine has reversed the traditional teaching method of classroom time being reserved for lectures and problem-solving exercises being completed outside of school as homework; with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,[11] school leaders are heading up a collaboration on the use of the "flipped classroom" approach to content delivery.

The School of Medicine also has a long history of educating physician assistants (PAs). Stanford University partnered with Foothill College in 1971 to form the Primary Care Associate Program (PCAP) which has graduated more than 1,500 PAs. The last PCAP class graduated in 2018. Today, the Stanford School of Medicine offers a Master of Science in PA Studies program that seeks to train highly qualified clinical PAs who can practice in any area of medicine and also be leaders in community health, research, and medical education. The program offers a novel approach to curriculum delivery and expanded clinical opportunities as well as interprofessional education, with PA students taking courses side by side with MD students. The program is 30 months in length, accepts 27 students each year, has an acceptance rate of less than 2%.[12]

Rankings and admissions[edit]

In the 2021 U.S. News & World Report rankings, Stanford was ranked fourth in the nation among medical schools for research.[13] Admission to the MD program at Stanford is highly competitive: in 2019, 6,894 people applied, 422 were interviewed, and 175 accepted for 90 spots.[14]

Stanford is one of several schools in the United States to use the multiple mini-interview system, developed at McMaster University Medical School in Canada, to evaluate candidates.[15]

Along with the School of Humanities and Science, the Stanford School of Medicine also runs the Biosciences PhD Program, which was ranked first in 2019 among graduate programs in the biological sciences by U.S. News & World Report.[16] In its graduate school specialties, according to U.S. News for 2019, Stanford is #1 in genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics, #1 in neuroscience and neurobiology, #1 in cell biology, #3 in biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology, and #4 in ecology and evolutionary biology.[16]

Faculty[edit]

The School of Medicine has 1,948 full-time faculty. There have been eight Nobel Prize winners over the past six decades, and among its 2019 faculty members are:[17]

Notable alumni[edit]

Notable current and past faculty[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Best Hospitals in California". U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Rankings. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  2. ^ Haas, James H. (Spring 2007). "Edward Robeson Taylor. Part I: The Pre-Mayor Years". The Argonaut: Journal of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society. 18 (1): 23.
  3. ^ a b "Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools: An Historical Perspective: Part I. Background History & E.S. Cooper's Midwestern Years. Chapter 1. Introduction - Medical History Center". lane.stanford.edu. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
  4. ^ Allen, Wilmer C. (1959). The First Hundred Years. San Francisco: Stanford University School of Medicine. OCLC 15229140.
  5. ^ "Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools: An Historical Perspective. Part IV: Cooper Medical college 1883-1912. Chapter 30. Consolidation with Stanford University 1906 - 1912". Stanford Medical History Center. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  6. ^ "Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools: An Historical Perspective. Part V. The Stanford Era 1909-. Chapter 34: Dean Wilbur's Administration 1911 - 1915". Stanford Medical History Center. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  7. ^ "Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools: An Historical Perspective Part V. The Stanford Era 1909- Chapter 37. The New Stanford Medical Center Planning and Building 1953 - 1959". Stanford Medical History Center. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  8. ^ "Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools: A…". archive.is. December 9, 2014. Archived from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  9. ^ Schechter, Ruth (April 28, 1999). "Beckman Center celebrates ten years at the forefront of biomedicine". Stanford Report. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
  10. ^ a b Conger, Krista (October 25, 2010). "Stem cell central: The Lorry I. Lokey Building". Stanford School of Medicine. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
  11. ^ "Using the "flipped classroom" model to bring medical education into the 21st century". Stanford Medicine. May 26, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  12. ^ "Applicant Self-Assessment". Master of Science in PA Studies. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
  13. ^ "Best Medical Schools: Research". U.S. News & World Report. 2021. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  14. ^ Kowarski, Ilana (March 12, 2019). "10 Med Schools With the Lowest Acceptance Rates". US News. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
  15. ^ "On your mark, get set, interview!". Stanford University. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  16. ^ a b "Stanford University - Overall Rankings - US News". Retrieved February 10, 2020.
  17. ^ "Facts & Figures – School of Medicine". Stanford Medicine. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  18. ^ Aufses, Arthur H. Jr.; Niss, Barbara (December 2002). This House of Noble Deeds: The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852–2002. NYU Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-8147-0500-1. Retrieved May 30, 2018 – via Google Books.
  19. ^ The Stanford Alumnus: Official Magazine of the Stanford Alumni Association. Vol. 49. 1948. Mary Gertrude Halton, M.D. ' 00, died January 25
  20. ^ "Stanford University Faculty Senate Records: Memorial Resolution: Hultgren, Herbert, 1917–1997 (Medicine)". exhibits.stanford.edu. Retrieved March 2, 2023.

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