Indiana University School of Medicine

Indiana University
School of Medicine

Motto	Preparing healers. Transforming health.
Type	Public medical school system
Established	May 1903; 121 years ago (May 1903)
Parent institution	Indiana University
Accreditation	LCME[1]
Dean	Jay L. Hess[2]
Academic staff	3,392 full-time and 253 part-time (2023)[3]
Administrative staff	2,409 (2023)[3]
Students	1,461 MD (2023)[3]
Undergraduates	253 BS (2023)[3]
Postgraduates	174 MS (2023)[3]
Doctoral students	195 PhD (2023)[3]
Other students	1,442 Residents & Fellows (2023)[3]
Location	Indianapolis (primary, and an additional eight regional campuses throughout the state) , Indiana , United States 39°46′32″N 86°10′36″W / 39.77556°N 86.17667°W / 39.77556; -86.17667
Campus	Urban to suburban
Absorbed	The Indiana Medical College, the School of Medicine of Purdue University (1908)[4] State College of Physicians and Surgeons (1908)[4]
Average accepted MCAT	511.7 (2023)[3]
Average accepted GPA	3.80 (2023)[3]
Acceptance rate	5.96% (2023)[3]
Website	medicine.iu.edu

The Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) is a major, multi-campus medical school located throughout the U.S. state of Indiana and is the graduate medical school of Indiana University. There are nine campuses throughout the state; the principal research, educational, and medical center is located on the Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)^[a] campus in Indianapolis. With 1,461 MD students, 195 PhD students, and 1,442 residents and fellows in the 2023–24 academic year, IUSM is the largest medical school in the United States.^[5][6][3] The school offers many joint degree programs including an MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program. It has partnerships with Purdue University's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, other Indiana University system schools, and various in-state external institutions. It is the medical school with the largest number of graduates licensed in the United States per a 2018 Federation of State Medical Boards survey with 11,828 licensed physicians.^[7]

The school has pioneered research in multiple specialties, including oncology, immunology, substance use, neuroscience, and endocrinology. Research discoveries include a curative therapy for testicular cancer, the development of echocardiography, the identification of several genes linked to Alzheimer's disease, and the creation of inner ear sensory cells from pluripotent stem cells.^[8][9][10]

In the 2023 U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best graduate schools for medicine, the school ranked 23rd in the nation for primary care and 41st for research out of 192 medical schools.^[11] In the U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best hospitals, the Indiana University Health Medical Center had seventeen nationally ranked clinical programs. The Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health is nationally ranked in 9 of 10 designated specialties for children in the U.S. News & World Report.^[12] The IU School of Medicine is also home to the Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. In federal fiscal year 2023, IUSM ranked 29th for National Institutes of Health funding among all US medical schools (13th among all public US medical schools) with $243,608,100 of funding.^[3]

It was the only medical school in the state from when the Valparaiso University School of Medicine closed in 1917 to when the Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine opened in 2010. IUSM remains the state's only allopathic, MD degree-granting school.

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