Thank you for your interest in the University of Missouri
School of Medicine. We are proud of our heritage as the oldest public medical
school west of the Mississippi River and excited about the future. The mission of
the School of Medicine is to improve the health of Missourians and the nation by:
- Providing excellent health care education, with special emphasis on the needs of
rural providers and communities.
- Generating new knowledge through research.
- Providing the outstanding patient-centered clinical care on which excellence in
research and education is based.
With the help of our major clinical teaching partner,
University of Missouri Health Care (UMHC), many exciting things are happening
in all three areas of our mission: education, clinical care and research.
