Medical Education

Buildings at Washington University's medical school campus in the Central West End in St. Louis

Wash U bows out of annual list of the nation's top medical schools

Sarah Fentem

The St. Louis medical school joined Stanford, Harvard and other institutions that earlier this year said they would not provide data to be included in U.S. News & World Report’s medical schools ranking. Wash U officials say the list is outdated and doesn’t accurately reflect the school’s values.

Air force medics treat a life sized mannequin a during a Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills simulation at St. Louis University. Active duty medics must undergo such training every two years.

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Scott Air Force Base Is Woven Into Many Parts Of The St. Louis Region, Including Its Medical Community

Eric Schmid

The base has many strong connections with the Metro East. Its ties with the region’s medical community are lesser known.

Zoe Floyd, a recent graduate of Metro Academic and Classical High School, celebrates her admission into St. Louis University's Doisy College of Health Sciences.

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Applications For St. Louis Med Schools Soar, Part Of The National ‘Fauci Effect’

Kendall Crawford

More young people are pursuing careers in medicine after witnessing the impact of the pandemic.

Saint Louis University School of Medicine recently was taken off probation by the nation's accrediting body.

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SLU School Of Medicine Starts State's First Addiction Medicine Fellowship

Sarah Fentem

St. Louis University is starting a program to train doctors to treat patients with addictions.The university’s school of medicine will operate the state’s…

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Wash U Announces Free Tuition For Up To Half Of New Med Students

Sarah Fentem

The Washington University School of Medicine will more than double the number of students receiving full tuition each year thanks to $100 million in…

First-year Washington University medical school students board a school bus after a stop on a trip around St. Louis in August.

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Seek first to understand: Lessons on poverty teach medical students to be better doctors

Every year, for the past 15 years, first year students at Washington University’s School of Medicine have climbed on board three yellow school buses and…

Doctors can complete a COVID-19 antibody test with a traditional blood draw or a finger stick.

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Hepatitis C, the top reason for a liver transplant, could be considered a ‘rare disease’ by 2030

Kelly Moffitt

April is organ donation month and two guests joined St. Louis on the Air to discuss new advances in the field of organ donation research.Nationwide, there…

Kathy Smith, Miriam Steinberg, and Max Rosen are 4th year students at Washington University's School of Medicine.

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The challenge of training enough doctors to meet Missouri’s needs

Like many states, Missouri is facing a doctor shortage.The supply of doctors isn't keeping up, even as the population ages and more people have health…

A view of Saint Louis University Hospital, taken 02/23/15.

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SLU medical school gets $6.6 million to boost primary care training

Citing the projected demand for primary care physicians in underserved areas, a California-based foundation is donating $6.6 million to Saint Louis…

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Probing a sheep's brain, discovering a life's calling

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: July 24, 2008- Rikiyah McGee bit her lip as she deftly handled the scalpel. Wearing medical gloves…