In 2023, a need was identified for more community-based physicians in the St. Louis region. It was clear that Missouri Baptist Medical Center, a premier regional hospital without graduate medical education programs, was the clear site of choice.
The program’s primary goal is to train future internists in a community setting. The environment will place residents in close contact with leading community internists with training reflecting the daily practice of those physicians. Because Missouri Baptist functions at a high level based entirely on the efforts of the practicing providers, the training program has a strong educational foundation. The medical staff and non-physician hospital staff enjoy a warm and collegial relationship, and residents will enter an environment that treats them as valued future colleagues.
Washington University School of Medicine, the program’s academic partner, has long been one of the premier medical schools in the United States. Missouri Baptist's residency program training is formed in cooperation with the Washington University, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education Consortium. Along with participating in this Washington University training program, residents are eligible for certain employment benefits through the consortium.
About Missouri Baptist Medical Center
Missouri Baptist Medical Center is a 489-bed acute-care facility located in the near-western suburbs of St. Louis County. It is routinely ranked among the best hospitals in Missouri. It has an outstanding medical staff, many of whom are regional leaders. There are 1,110 total physicians, 357 of whom are in the Medical Service. The hospital had 19,677 discharges in the past year, with 98,398 hospital days.
Missouri Baptist is a full-service hospital, whose physicians provide care in all medical subspecialties and non-medical specialties with a high degree of sophistication. Despite this level of technological expertise, it is well-known for its beautiful and well-landscaped campus in a safe and convenient location, with a warm and friendly staff and abundant free parking, which makes it the hospital of choice for much of suburban St. Louis.
Missouri Baptist Medical Center is a member of nationally renowned BJC HealthCare, which, with the recent addition of Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, is a network of 24 hospitals with 44,000 employees and hundreds of clinics serving Missouri, Southern Illinois and Eastern Kansas. The system partners with two medical schools, Washington University in St. Louis, now for more than 25 years, and University of Missouri-Kansas City, and includes three academic hospitals, including Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Saint Luke’s Hospital.
