Our educational quality is achieved through outstanding teaching, research and patient care programs. The school is among the first in the nation to offer the problem-based learning style of medical education. Students are divided into small groups in a curriculum designed to take them beyond memorization to an in-depth analysis of facts.
Students explore the structural and pathophysiological ramifications of actual medical cases.
They gain a wide variety of educational experiences because of the close cooperation between the School of Medicine, University of Missouri Hospitals and Clinics and an array of specialty outreach services. The school strongly emphasizes primary-care medicine but also prepares students in all specialties. We are proud that our students are some of the nation's top applicants. They come from many of the finest undergraduate institutions in the country. And they do well throughout medical school - typically more than 85 percent of our seniors receive their first or second choice of residency programs, and our students consistently perform better than average on national licensing exams.