Our Distinguishing Characteristics

• From their first week of classes, our students participate in clinical care.
• Our school is a national leader in community-based education, providing clinical training at more than 30 Miami Valley health care facilities.
• Seven major teaching hospitals provide diverse clinical training in primary, secondary, and tertiary patient care. Two of these institutions are premier federal hospitals (See our clinical site map).
• Wright State has received special recognition from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) over a period of more than fifteen years, for the percentage of its graduates entering family medicine residencies.
• Wright State is one of the few medical schools to have received the prestigious Outstanding Community Service Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
• Wright State has become a national leader in generalist education although our graduates enter the full spectrum of medical specialties.
• Wright State has the longest running civilian training program for doctors specializing in medicine related to air and space travel. Since 1978, Wright State's Aerospace Medicine Program has provided NASA with a steady supply of flight surgeons and also has trained the medical leadership for start-up space programs in a dozen other nations.
• Longitudinal studies indicate that 95 percent of our graduates are rated as equal to or better than their peers during residency training.
• Has joint research initiatives, technology transfer agreements, and shared faculty with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
• The Department of Community Health ranks 10th out of 125 medical schools for its total research awards granted by the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year 2005 for the area of "Public Health and Preventive Medicine."