Welcome to the Department of Medicine, the largest department at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

The mission of Johns Hopkins is research, teaching and patient care. Our record speaks for itself. Johns Hopkins is rated the best of the best by U.S. News & World Report in patient care. The School of Medicine receives more National Institutes of Health funding than any other school. The department conducts research on a broad range of problems related to human disease. Each year the department receives thousands of applications for 99 housestaff positions. The program for post-graduate medical education initiated by William Osler, Hopkins' first Professor of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief, in 1889 was the first modern residency system in the country. Since then, thousands of doctors have been trained on the Osler Medical Service.

Today, the department consists of 15 divisions: Cardiology, Clinical Immunology, Clinical Pharmacology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Geriatrics, Hematology, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Medical Genetics, Nephrology, Occupational and Environmental Health, Pulmonary, Rheumatology, and various clinics and centers such as the AIDS Service, the Arthritis Center, the Vasculitis Center and the Travel Clinic. The General Clinical Research Centers, a National Institutes of Health funded resource, and the Clinical Research Unit house many divisional members, too, Investigators here conduct clinical research in an academic setting. In addition to its house staff members, the department is comprised of 600 faculty and 200 fellows.

This site is intended for you to discover What's New in the department, our referral directory, the Osler Medical Service (housestaff training, journal and OslerNet), research projects in the department, Current Topics in Clinical Medicine and Ways of Giving to the department. Friends and colleagues of the department may visit The Hopkins Internist an on-line journal with faculty news pertaining to the department. We also have a list of Other Internet Servers you may find interesting.

Hopkins employees may want to visit the Useful Information page for employee phone numbers, beepers and addresses. The Chairman's Update contains news pertaining to the department. Submissions are encouraged. OnTime, a calendar/scheduling package, also is available to DOM faculty and staff.

Outside visitors may need a map of the Johns Hopkins East Campus that may aid them. The administrative offices of the department are located in the 1830 E. Monument Street Building.

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For more information on the department, contact medmail@lists.jhmi.edu. If you are applying to medical school, visit the School of Medicine's Office of Admissions.