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WashU Medicine is committed to providing a world-class education in a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment.
Accreditation
The WashU Medicine’s MD program is nationally accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). The LCME is jointly sponsored by the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges. The LCME is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as the accrediting agency for medical education programs leading to the MD degree.
Most state boards of licensure require that applicants graduate from a U.S. medical school accredited by the LCME as a condition for licensure. In addition, most state boards of licensure require that U.S. applicants take and pass the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). For U.S. medical students to be eligible to sit for the USMLE, their school must be accredited by LCME. Graduates of LCME-accredited schools are also eligible for residency programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
The Association of American Medical Schools (AAMC) confirms that MD graduates of an LCME-accredited medical school meet the undergraduate medical education (UME) requirements of physician licensing boards in all 50 States, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Such graduates also meet the UME requirements to sit for USMLE licensure exams. Because physician licensure requirements can change at any time and because some States may have additional requirements, such as those relating to graduate medical education (GME), students are well-advised to contact the applicable State licensing board in any State in which they are seeking licensure. For more detail on this AAMC Policy Advisory, click here.
WashU Medicine Diversity Statement
View this statement on the WashU Medicine website »
Technical Standards Statement
View this statement in the Bulletin of the School of Medicine »
Non-Discrimination Statement
View this statement on the WashU Human Resources website »
Criminal Background Checks and Drug Screening
Incoming students in the School of Medicine must undergo criminal background checks and drug screening before matriculation because of requirements of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Organizations (JCAHO). These confidential procedures are required of all health care workers, students and volunteers who participate in patient-related health care activities at the hospitals and health care facilities with which WashU Medicine is affiliated.
An accepted student must consent to criminal background checks, which must be completed successfully before one can matriculate in the School of Medicine. Consent forms will be distributed to applicants who are offered positions in the incoming class. Similarly, at the time of medical school orientation, all incoming pre-matriculant students must submit to screening for the following substances: THC–cannabis, cocaine, opiates, amphetamines and PCP–phencyclidine. A confirmed positive test will preclude enrollment into the School of Medicine.
Security Reports
Please visit the Operations & Facilities Management Department website for campus security reports.
Transportation Policy
Medical students will be required to travel to off-campus clinical rotations when these are assigned by the clinical rotation course director. In order to avoid inequitable distributions of these assignments, a student’s stated lack of access to a private vehicle will not be considered in and of itself when creating these assignments. Students who do not have access to a private vehicle will consult the “Guidelines” section of this policy item for recommended options. Gas, mileage, parking fees, and ride or public transportation fares are not reimbursed by the school. We encourage you to review the full Transportation Policy, located in the Bulletin of the School of Medicine.
Other Policies
For our policy on Links to Third-Party Websites and other policies (e.g., Absences; Leaves; Withdrawals), visit the Policies & Guidelines section of the Bulletin of the School of Medicine.
Information technology (IT) policies for the university may be accessed here.
WashU Med Visitor Guidelines
Prospective visitors to WashU Medicine for training, observation, or research purposes, may refer to the guidelines to ensure that proper procedures are followed.
See the Bulletin website for more policies and guidelines related to WashU and the medical school’s educational mission.