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Student Perspective

Outstanding Career Preparation
Supporting you to become the physician you want to be

As a medical student at Washington University School of Medicine, you will be challenged to earn an education that is among the best in the world.

Our students are exceptional, both academically and personally. Our faculty, many of them leaders in their fields, are fully committed to excellence in teaching and are eager to share their experience, judgment and passion for the profession. Graduates advance to residencies at top university-affiliated hospitals and medical centers around the country.

Our students go on from training to pursue successful careers in primary care, all of the clinical specialties, academic medicine, and clinical and basic research. No matter what your definition of success — seeing patients in a primary care office in an underserved region or pushing the boundaries of medical science at a major academic medical center — you can craft your direction and gain the necessary foundation at Washington University School of Medicine.


Our Approach
  Top: Student Noor Riaz examines patient Marketa Reed with Tom De Fer, M.D. De Fer is the 2006 Clerkship Director of the Year and the 2005 Clinical Teacher of the Year. Above left: Jane Phillips-Conroy, Ph.D., guides student Jaclyn Grentzer in a physical comparison of human and baboon skulls. Above right: Jonathan Lam, M.D., Ph.D., discusses the structure of the protein RANKL, a key bone growth regulator. Lam elucidated RANKL's sturcture through his research.