Welcome to the Department of Medicine

Cutting Edge Research

Genetic Clues of Early Death

Leading Research

Our robust research programs seek to improve the health and health care of people globally through various discoveries and applications.

Leading Research

Clinical Excellence

We offer innovative patient care for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human disease and illness. Our physicians and health care professionals are dedicated to providing compassionate and high quality care for all who seek help.

Clinical Excellence

Education

We provide clinical training and education in all of the disciplines of internal medicine, enabling clinical practitioners to deliver compassionate and pioneering health care to patients.

Education

Community

We strive to advance health and health equity in our local community through developing, coordinating, and sustaining partnerships with community organizations, as exemplified by our Community Partnership Program (CPP).

Community Collaboration

Diversity & Equity

We are committed to reflecting and celebrating diversity, educating ourselves, ensuring a sense of belonging, establishing an anti-racist culture and moving toward justice.

Diversity & Equity

Communication

We design and distribute web and digital communications in service of the department mission’s five cornerstones — research, education, clinical care, diversity & health equity, and community partnership–and translate complex scientific research for nonacademic audiences.

Communication

Communicating Medicine to Varied Audiences

Connect With Us

Read Past Annual Reports

Strength in Diversity & Health Equity

Inclusion 2024: Allyship

Inclusion 2024 is a yearlong virtual celebration of diversity with engaging programming and events centered around a community-selected annual theme and aimed at making inclusion a practice across the department. The 2024 theme is allyship.

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.

Lactation Resources

Want to be notified of department DEI events & announcements?

Contact Winnona Alba (winnona@stanford.edu) to join our new email listserv at domdeievents@lists.stanford.edu.

Leading the Way With Groundbreaking Research

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.

Community Collaboration

Our 15 divisions are unique and interrelated communities, well established in our internal medicine disciplines and united by our shared core values.

Explore our 15 departmental divisions

Explore our departmental divisions

Learn about our department culture

Modeling Clinical Excellence

“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

Education & Training in Compassionate Care

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.