At the forefront of medical education and research

We are the Primary Affiliate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and are proud to be a teaching hospital for those entering the medical professions.

Historical Perspective

Since its founding in 1843, the Case School of Medicine has been at the forefront of medical education and research.

In the 1800s, the school was one of the first medical schools in the country to employ instructors devoted to full-time teaching and research. Six of the first seven women to receive medical degrees from recognized allopathic medical schools graduated from Western Reserve University (as it was called then) between 1850 and 1856.

Already a leading educational institution for more than a century, the School of Medicine in 1952 initiated the most advanced medical curriculum in the country, integrating the basic and clinical sciences, focusing on organ systems and featuring an introduction to patients and clinical work the first year. Many other medical schools followed suit.

At least eleven Nobel Prize honorees have ties to the medical school through their experiences as faculty members or students, and the medical school is the only one to have graduated two U.S. surgeons general.

Pioneers today and tomorrow

Today, the Case School of Medicine is among the top medical schools in the enrollment of minority students, and each class contains a high percentage of women. Their curriculum continues to be responsive to the latest findings in education and medicine and sets the pace for other schools.

The Case School of Medicine was the first medical school to provide laptop computers to all its students, and continues to use the latest technology to enhance, not replace, the faculty-student interaction that occurs in the classroom, the laboratory and small-group discussions.

The Case School of Medicine is the largest biomedical research institution in Ohio, as measured by funding received from the National Institutes of Health, the nation's largest funding agency of biomedical research. The medical school receives more NIH funding than all other Ohio medical schools combined and is in the top tier of medical schools nationally.