Stanford School of Medicine

Photo: Dr. Paul Brown, third from right, and Connie Wolf, second from right, take part in a demo at the virtual anatomy lab at the School of Medicine.
ADVANCES IN LEARNING MEDICINE | Teaching anatomy with new tools.

Pushing the Boundaries of Medicine

Stanford Medicine is at the forefront of the biomedical revolution in Precision Health, with medical and scientific advancements that will ultimately allow us to predict and prevent disease before it strikes — and cure it decisively if it does. By recruiting leading faculty and fostering an interdisciplinary environment, the Stanford School of Medicine has produced transformative research and trained scientists and medical practitioners well prepared to deliver the next generation of care.

Stanford Medicine’s legacy includes the first synthesis of biologically active DNA in 1967, ushering in the study of genetics, and the first successful heart-lung transplant in the world in 1981. Other discoveries made here — in magnetic resonance imaging and gene splicing — catalyzed the biotech industry.

The Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, located to your left, is one of several School of Medicine buildings, and serves as its primary hub for educational and leadership activities. Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford are located nearby.

Photo: Cooper Medical School in San Francisco which later was acquired by Stanford University.
The Early Days

The university’s Founding Grant listed medicine as an important branch of the university. Stanford established its medical school in 1908, when it acquired Cooper Medical College in San Francisco. The medical school — as well as Stanford University Hospital — remained in San Francisco until moving to the Palo Alto campus in 1959.

Becoming Doctors
Photo: Stanford School of Medicine medical students at the White Coat and Stethoscope Ceremony

For aspiring doctors, the medical student journey begins with the white coat and stethoscope ceremony. The medical school here houses one of the nation’s most advanced medical simulation-training centers — complete with programmable mannequins pioneered by a Stanford professor. Simulated high-stakes emergency room or operating room scenarios are part of students’ training.

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hting Cancer

Cancer treatment has come a long way since a doctor and a physicist from Stanford developed a medical linear accelerator and used it successfully in 1956 to treat a tumor in a 2-year-old boy’s eye. Now, more than 40 million patients later, medical linear accelerators remain essential to radiation therapy for cancer worldwide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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