Johns Hopkins University Medical School
Our School of Medicine Community
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine consistently ranks among the nation’s very best in education. These numbers are important, but we’re more than numbers – we’re a community of seekers and dreamers. Using the latest tools and teachings available to scientists and doctors, we become healers, caregivers, discoverers and inventors.
About Us
We educate medical students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to practice patient-centered medicine, to study the prevention and treatment of disease, and to excel in health care delivery and in the basic sciences.
Fast Facts
6Academic and Community Hospitals
Johns Hopkins Medicine operates six academic and community hospitals and four suburban health care and surgery centers.
902Research Labs
Our researchers span 782 labs and 120 core facilities.
2,268Active Issued Patents Held
Faculty and alumni hold 2,268 active issued patents and run 94 startups and self-sustaining companies that have ties to the school of medicine.
About Johns Hopkins Medicine
The mission of Johns Hopkins Medicine is to improve the health of the community and the world by setting the standard of excellence in medical education, research and clinical care.
Diverse and inclusive, Johns Hopkins Medicine:
- Educates medical students, scientists, health care professionals and the public
- Conducts biomedical research
- Provides patient-centered medicine to prevent, diagnose and treat human illness.