Dartmouth Medical School

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Dartmouth Medical School is the medical school of Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire. The school is closely affiliated with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in neighboring Lebanon, New Hampshire.

The mission of the school is as follows:

Dartmouth Medical School is dedicated to advancing health through the dissemination and discovery of knowledge. Our chief responsibility is to select students of exceptional character and accomplishment and prepare them to become superb and caring physicians, scientists and teachers.

Dartmouth Medical School trains medical students (for the M.D. degree), Ph.D. and M.S. students in the life sciences (including Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology, Pharmacology/Toxicology, and Physiology), and M.P.H. students in its renowned Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences. In addition, several M.D./Ph.D. and similar degree programs are offered.

The Norris Cotton Cancer Center is an important component of the teaching and research at Dartmouth Medical School.

According to U.S. News & World Report, Dartmouth Medical School is ranked #32 in the country.

In each medical school class, there are about 80 students. Medical and graduate students study and work in the old medical school buildings at the north end of the Dartmouth College undergraduate campus in Hanover. Medical students in their first two years take classes there before moving on to clinical rotations at DHMC and elsewhere. Many research laboratories for the basic science graduate students are also located at DHMC.

Dartmouth Medical School became the country's 4th medical school, when founder Nathan Smith delivered its first lecture in 1797. The Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, a Dartmouth teaching hospital, opened in 1893. In 1896, DMS faculty performed the first clinical x-ray in America to diagnose a broken arm. The nation's first intensive care unit established at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in 1955. In 1991, the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital was moved to the new Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center facility.

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