University of Missouri School of Medicine

What University of Missouri School of Medicine does

The University of Missouri School of Medicine is a public medical school established in 1872 (firmographic record states 1839) within the University of Missouri System, governed by The Curators of the University of Missouri and headquartered in Columbia, Missouri. The institution delivers a four-year MD program built on a patient-based learning (PBL) curriculum adopted in 1993, complemented by a Rural Scholars Program established in 1995 and multiple residency and fellowship offerings. It operates regional training sites at the Springfield Clinical Campus (in partnership with CoxHealth and Mercy, opened 2016), Bothwell Regional Health Center in Sedalia (Missouri's first accredited rural family medicine residency track, 2021), and additional rural immersion sites in West Plains and Hannibal. Patient care is delivered through the affiliated MU Health Care system, including the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center and Missouri Orthopaedic Institute.

The school's research portfolio spans regenerative orthopaedics (Thompson Laboratory for Regenerative Orthopaedics), the ARPA-H-funded NOVAJoint biologic knee replacement program (up to $39M, partnership with Columbia University), multispectral optoacoustic tomography imaging, machine learning models for cardiac risk prediction, and the international TOPS osteoarthritis prevention clinical trial. Revenue derives from a hybrid mix: state appropriations, federal and state grants (HRSA, NIH, ARPA-H, SAMHSA, CDC, Missouri DHSS), medical student tuition, and clinical service revenue through MU Health Care. Major non-government grant and federal sources have exceeded $70M cumulatively across recent award cycles.

Its core go-to-market approach is multi-channel: traditional medical school admissions, a high-school-to-residency rural health pipeline (mobile simulation vans, Bryant Scholars pre-admission, Clinical Rural Immersion), and a statewide telehealth network (Show-Me ECHO) operating 24 active projects. The school serves medical students, resident physicians, and patients across Missouri, with USMLE performance and 97-99% residency match rates (Class of 2020-2021) serving as primary outcome metrics. Customer concentration is structurally low given the dual education/patient-care model distributed across thousands of students, residents, and patients.

Name

University of Missouri School of Medicine

Legal name

University of Missouri School of Medicine

Website

https://medicine.missouri.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1872

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

The University of Missouri School of Medicine is a public medical school in Columbia, Missouri, within the University of Missouri System. It delivers MD education, rural physician training pipelines, and clinical care via MU Health Care, supported by federal grants, state appropriations, tuition, and patient services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Education

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) (621111), Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals (622310)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAHAGAB

Medical Schools (MD/DO Granting)

Education/Higher Education (Colleges & Universities)/Medical & Health Sciences Universities

SECONDARYEDAAALAC

Healthcare Clinical Professions (CME/CE for Nurses, Allied Health, Pharmacy)

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Professional Licensure & Continuing Professional Education (CE/CPE)

SECONDARYEDAMABAJ

Health Science & Medical STEM Programs (Pre-Med, Public Health)

Education/Supplemental & Enrichment Programs (Arts, STEM, Language)/STEM Enrichment & Science Programs

Keywords

• Medical education
• Physician training
• Rural health programs
• Biomedical research
• Patient care services

Headquarters

HQ city

Columbia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Medical education tuition: Revenue from medical student tuition and fees for MD program. Students receive financial support through scholarships funded by HRSA grants.
2. Federal and state grants: Major funding from HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) for Rural Scholars Program ($16M over 4 years), federal grants for research initiatives including ARPA-H funding ($39M for NOVAJoint), NIH grants, and state Department of Health grants.
3. Patient care services: Clinical revenue through MU Health Care system including specialty care at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, Missouri Orthopaedic Institute, and general patient services at teaching hospital.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The University of Missouri School of Medicine is a public academic medical institution that trains physicians through a four-year MD program using a patient-based learning curriculum, operates graduate medical education and fellowship programs, conducts biomedical and clinical research, and delivers patient care through the MU Health Care system and affiliated specialty centers. It also administers specialized pipelines such as the Rural Scholars Program and Bryant Scholars Program, and runs community-based clinical training campuses in Columbia and Springfield.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Legacy Teachers™: Program that honors the role patients play in the education of medical students, allowing third-year students to recognize patients who taught them important lessons about being a physician
• Rural Scholars Program
• Bryant Scholars Program
• Clinical Rural Immersion (CRI)
• Missouri Child Psychiatry Access Project (MO-CPAP)
• Center for Excellence in Child Well-Being
• NOVAJoint
• MizzouForward
• The Bridge Program

Products and services

• MD Degree Program
• Rural Scholars Program
• Bothwell Family Medicine Rural Training Track Residency Program First rural family medicine residency training track in Missouri, nationally accredited in 2021; residents spend their second and third years of training at Bothwell Regional Health Center in Sedalia. For medical school graduates pursuing family medicine training in a rural setting.
• MU Family Medicine Residency Program Family medicine graduate medical education program at the MU School of Medicine, recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation's top graduate programs. For medical school graduates pursuing family medicine specialty training.
• Glaucoma Fellowship AUPO certified fellowship in glaucoma and anterior segment surgery providing exposure to clinical and surgical management, including micro-invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) procedures. For ophthalmologists pursuing subspecialty glaucoma training.
• Bryant Scholars Program Medical school pre-admission program for undergraduate students from rural areas who wish to pursue rural medicine. For college students preparing to apply to medical school with interest in rural practice.
• Patient Care Services at MU Health Care Clinical care delivered through MU Health Care's teaching hospital and specialty centers including Ellis Fischel Cancer Center and the Missouri Orthopaedic Institute. For individual patients seeking specialty, cancer, orthopaedic, and general medical care.
• Clinical Trials Resource Online searchable tool launched to help patients and physicians find information about local clinical trials currently enrolling participants across categories including cancer, mental health, gynecology, and other areas. For patients seeking clinical trial participation and physicians referring patients.

Quantifiable outcome

• Students outperform national averages on USMLE Step 1 and 2 exams
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Bothwell Regional Health CentercoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2021First rural family medicine residency training track in Missouri. Residents spend second and third years training in Sedalia. Bothwell also hosts third-year medical students and Clinical Rural Immersion program participants.
• CoxHealth and Mercy health systemscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2016Partnership established June 2016 to create Springfield Clinical Campus for third and fourth-year medical students. Addresses physician shortage in Missouri and nationwide by providing community-based clinical training in southwest Missouri.
• Columbia UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerARPA-H funded collaboration for development and validation of NOVAJoint biologic knee replacement. MU team oversees preclinical development, validation, and clinical trial at MU Health Care's Missouri Orthopaedic Institute.
• Wake Forest UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoordinating center for The Osteoarthritis Prevention Study (TOPS), a multicenter randomized clinical trial examining diet and exercise program for knee osteoarthritis prevention. MU serves as data management and biobank site.
• Brigham and Women's HospitalmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnrolling site for The Osteoarthritis Prevention Study (TOPS) clinical trial in Boston.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel HillmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnrolling site for The Osteoarthritis Prevention Study (TOPS) clinical trial.
• University of SydneymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational enrolling site for The Osteoarthritis Prevention Study (TOPS) clinical trial in Australia.
• Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-author institution on machine learning model study for cardiac risk prediction using PET scan data.
• University of TartuminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational co-author institution on machine learning model study for cardiac risk prediction.
• Washington University Pediatric and Adolescent Research ConsortiumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on childhood immunization improvement project funded by Missouri DHSS.
• Missouri Immunization CoalitionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner on statewide effort to increase immunization rates among children and adolescents.
• National Cancer InstitutemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerKeynote speaker Philip Castle, PhD from NCI at 2024 Cancer Research Day.
• University of Michigan Rogel Cancer CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerKeynote speaker Dan Hayes, MD at 2024 Cancer Research Day.
• MU ExtensioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on workforce development, rural health initiatives, and Show-Me ECHO telehealth network expansion.
• Missouri Telehealth Network / Show-Me ECHOcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork grew from 2 projects in 2015 to 24 current ECHO projects covering kidney disease, diabetes, hypertension, child psychiatry, asthma, dermatology, opioid use disorder, and COVID-19.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• University of Kansas School of Medicine: Another large Midwestern public medical school with rural health training and family medicine emphasis. Direct peer: both are public state medical schools, both adopted the Legacy Teachers program, and both target physician shortages in their respective states.
• East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine: Public medical school with explicit mission to train physicians for rural and underserved populations in North Carolina. Direct peer: comparable rural-health mission, similar public-school scale, and Legacy Teachers adopter like MU.
• University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine: Public medical school with a strong rural-family-medicine focus serving a largely rural state. Direct peer: similar pipeline approach, Legacy Teachers adopter, comparable class size, and aligned rural physician-shortage mission.
• University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine: Large Midwestern public medical school with comparable research and education scale. Direct peer: similar Big Ten / public-state university operating model, broad specialty mix, and overlapping federal-grant posture.
• University of Minnesota Medical School: Public Big Ten medical school with twin-campus model and significant federal research funding. Direct peer: comparable scale, research footprint, and rural/primary-care emphasis in upper Midwest.
• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine: Public medical school and Legacy Teachers adopter that partnered with MU on the international TOPS osteoarthritis clinical trial. Direct peer: comparable research scale and primary-care training mission.

Regional players

• Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis: Elite private medical school located in Missouri. Regional peer: same state, comparable research enterprise, but operates a different model (private, research-intensive) and is not a direct mission competitor for rural training.
• Saint Louis University School of Medicine: Private Jesuit medical school in Missouri. Regional peer: same-state peer competing for students, faculty, and clinical partnerships, but with a different governance and tuition model.

Emerging players

• Tufts University School of Medicine: Private medical school and Legacy Teachers adopter. Emerging peer: methodology/curriculum adopter with overlapping pedagogical interests, but operates at a different geographic and demographic scale.

Broad incumbents

• Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine: Elite medical school embedded in a large integrated clinical system. Broad incumbent: comparable research scale and reputation, but operates a fundamentally different care-delivery and funding model versus a public state medical school.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/MissouriMedicine
• Xx.com/mumedicine
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/university-of-missouri-columbia-school-of-medicine

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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