About the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

The Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, founded in 1797, strives to improve the lives of the people it serves: students, patients, and local and global communities. The School builds healthier communities through innovations in research, education, and patient care. As one of America's top medical schools, the Geisel School of Medicine is committed to creating new generations of diverse leaders who will help solve our most vexing challenges in healthcare.

Our Five Guiding Principles

Create Leaders and Leadership

Students and Faculty First

Revitalize Education and Research

Reach Out and Connect Diverse People & Ideas

We Win Together as a Team

A History of Firsts

The Geisel School of Medicine—the fourth oldest medical school in the nation—has produced many firsts and advancements in education, research and medical practice, including:

The first clinical X-ray in America

The first multispecialty intensive care unit

The first comprehensive examination of variations in health care costs in US medical practice (The Dartmouth Atlas)

Discovery of the mechanism for how light resets biological clocks

The groundbreaking national model, Supported Employment, which improves outcomes for those with serious mental illness

The first Center for Health Care Delivery Science launched in 2010, as well as a new Master's in Health Care Delivery Science degree

The first use of the stethoscope in medical education--introduced by the Geisel School poet-physician faculty member, Oliver Wendell Holmes

Leaders in education, research & health delivery