About Us
Stanford Medicine is committed to setting the highest standards for patient care, ground-breaking biomedical research, professional education, teaching, and training. We are devoted to advancing the science of medicine by developing new methods to prevent, diagnose, and treat all aspects of human disease and strive to provide compassionate and pioneering health care to all of our patients.
Fast Facts
- Stanford University School of Medicine ranked 7th among all medical schools in US News & World Report in 2007.
- Stanford Department of Medicine research expenditures totaled over $83 million dollars in 2007.
- Stanford Department of Medicine received over $57.8M in NIH awards in 2007.
- The Department has approximately 230 full time university faculty and clinician educators making us the smallest department among all of the research intensive medical schools in the nation. We ranked 2nd for NIH award dollars adjusted for faculty number in 2006.
- The clinical faculty sees over 65,000 patient visits per year.
- Among the faculty are 4 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 3 members of the Institute of Medicine, 29 members of the Association of American Physicians, and 41 members of the American Society of Clinical Investigation.
- The Department has 100 residents with 14 in Clinical Investigator Pathway (CIP) pursuing a career as a physician-scientist.
- Stanford Department of Medicine has 12 fellowships for nearly 120 fellows who are training in Internal Medicine and its subspecialties.