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The Virtual You: How Medical Digital Twins Are Revolutionizing Healthcare

Explore how medical digital twins — AI-powered virtual patient models — are transforming healthcare with personalized care, prediction, and prevention.


Featured Stories

  • The Virtual You

    Explore how medical digital twins — AI-powered virtual patient models — are transforming healthcare with personalized care, prediction, and prevention.

  • A Day in the Life of an ICU Physician

    Go inside the ICU with Dr. Jennifer Williams as she shares what it takes to be an intensivist and how she balances high-stakes care with life at home.

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Inclusion 2025: Community

Each year, we center engaging programming and events on a particular theme aimed at making everyone in our community feel included. The 2025 theme is community. Read more.

Community Partnership Program

We work to advance health and health equity in our local community through developing, coordinating, and sustaining partnerships between community organizations, our department, and the broader School of Medicine.


Team Science

The Department of Medicine is committed to translating research discoveries into clinical practice to improve health worldwide. We accomplish this goal through an interdisciplinary approach known as team science. Visit our DoM Team Science website

Medicine Grand Rounds

Our Department of Medicine Grand Rounds live stream is geared towards the Stanford community. Join us on event days for expert presentations on Stanford campus or virtually, or catch up with YouTube recordings.


Fostering Collaboration

Our 17 divisions are unique and interrelated communities, well established in our internal medicine disciplines and united by our shared core values.

Explore our 17 departmental divisions


 “At Stanford, it’s in our DNA to use technology in service of innovation. There’s the rich ecosystem we’ve developed with Silicon Valley companies and cross-pollination with local industry. Plus, we tend to attract faculty who are skilled both as informaticians and as physicians.

-Ron Li, MD


Residency Program

The dedication of the Department to excellence in teaching and patient care, a wide breadth of clinical experience, high quality fellowship and research programs, and an outstanding faculty combine to make this a superb environment for training housestaff for future academic leadership careers.

Educational Programs

Our educational mission is to provide excellent broad-based clinical training in a scholarly environment for future academic leaders.