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Overview

Washington University Medical Center is an exciting place to be. As one of the world's largest academic medical centers, the School and its affiliated hospitals provide an atmosphere of collaboration, collegiality and innovation that flows from the basic science laboratory right into the clinic. Students are part of the mix from the beginning, with opportunities to gain clinical experience in every conceivable medical specialty and research experience with some of the world's best-known investigators.

Environment
 

Top: A medical student helps physicians rush a patient from the Medical Center's new emergency unit into surgery. Bottom: Medical student Jessica Duan and plastic and reconstructive surgeon Susan E. Mackinnon, M.D., look at various assessment techniques of nerve regeneration.