Washington University Medical Campus is among the largest academic medical centers in the world, with comprehensive strengths in nearly every area of clinical medicine and biomedical investigation. Its culture is collaborative and collegial.

ITS PRIMARY MEMBERS are Washington University School of Medicine and its affiliated hospital partners, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. The School of Medicine’s clinical practice group, called Washington University Physicians, is one of the largest academic clinical practices in the nation. Its 1,361 specialty and primary care clinicians comprise the medical staffs at Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s hospitals.

A major campus renewal project consolidates and expands surgical services, cancer care and other programs, adds to private inpatient beds and incorporates outpatient clinics and diagnostics.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital is the largest hospital in Missouri, with 1,365 beds. It has been ranked on U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll of America’s best hospitals for 25 consecutive years, holds advanced certification from the Joint Commission on lung volume reduction surgery and ventricular assist devices and is an American College of Surgeons-verified Level I trauma center.

St. Louis Children’s Hospital is the largest children’s hospital in the region, with 280 beds and an American College of Surgeons-verified Level I pediatric trauma center. It offers comprehensive services in every pediatric medical and surgical specialty and is recognized as one of America’s top children’s hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, which in 2017 ranked the hospital in all 10 specialties surveyed.

The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Missouri and is ranked as one of the nation’s top cancer facilities by U.S. News & World Report. It is among the top five nationally in patient volume.

Multidisciplinary research in nearly every area of biomedicine is a hallmark of the school. U.S. News & World Report perennially ranks the school’s graduate programs among the nation’s best. Faculty and chief residents author the Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics, among the world’s most widely sold medical textbooks.