Faculty

Dartmouth faculty members are renowned not only for their leadership in diverse facets of medicine, but also for their personal approach to teaching. They serve as your instructors, role models, mentors, and team-members in the clinic and in the lab. They are vested in your success at school and beyond and demonstrate their commitment in many ways, whether it's organizing a weekend review session or inviting
you to their home for Thanksgiving dinner. As one student says,"The professors don't just have office hours from one to three on a Friday afternoon. Their doors are open all the time."

Drs. Leslie Fall and Norm Berman Developed by DMS's Drs. Leslie Fall and Norm Berman, the Computer-Assisted Learning in Pediatrics Project (CLIPP) is currently in use by approximately 70 percent of all medical students in the United States, with an average of 3,000-4,000 CLIPP cases completed each week. In 2005 and 2006, CLIPP received the "Innovation in Clinical Medical Student Education Award" from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Dr. Joseph O'Donnell, Professor of Medicine Second-year students in the "On Doctoring" course work with Dr. Joseph O'Donnell, Professor of Medicine, practicing their clinical skills.

"It's a phenomenal learning environment."

"The first- and second- year profs go out of their way to make sure we're learning what we need to learn. And then when you get to the hospitals and see them on the wards interacting with patients and doing consults, it's even more inspiring."
—Rachel Kornik, Year 3

Kiang-Teck J. Yeo, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology In 2009, Jay Dunlap, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Genetics at DMS, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He cloned the first microbial clock gene in 1986 and over the subsequent two decades has pieced together the intricate web of clockwork genes, proteins, and feedback loops that drive circadian rhythms, often working with colleague Dr. Jennifer Loros, a professor of biochemistry.

The fulltime on-site faculty-to-student ratio is about 2 to 1 • Students who are interested in a particular field of medicine are mentored by faculty members from that department who can provide residency and career advice