Our faculty are fully committed to excellence in teaching and mentorship, eager to share their experience and passion for the profession. Students find that faculty members are accessible for questions or discussion, helping students achieve their highest potential.
“The professors and physicians are 100-percent accessible to us and very welcoming of student interest. They are so unassuming that it is easy to forget you are working with world-class physicians and surgeons — people who are leading experts in the field. For students who make the most of life’s opportunities, all doors are open here.”
Ryan Anderson, former medical student
The WashU Medicine faculty is among the most prestigious in the country. Many are nationally and internationally recognized for clinical excellence by their peers in the physician community.
- Roughly 400 WashU Medicine physicians elected to Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors list
- Maintain extensive inpatient and outpatient clinical activities within the Washington University Physicians clinical practice group, one of the five largest in the nation.
In addition, WashU Medicine chief residents and faculty are the authors of the highly acclaimed Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics, the most widely sold medical textbook in the world. Many faculty perform dual roles as basic scientists and clinicians, bringing the most current knowledge and methods of inquiry from the laboratory to the bedside and supporting translational research.
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Outstanding WashU Medicine faculty achievements
- 19 Nobel laureates have been associated with WashU Medicine
- 16 faculty members are fellows of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences
- 28 faculty have been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences
- 112 individual and/or institutional career development awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- 12 faculty investigators hold NIH MERIT status, which provides long-term, uninterrupted research funding
- 64 faculty have secured career development awards from non-federal agencies