Georgetown University School of Meicine (GUSOM) is Georgetown University's medical school, and part of the Georgetown University Medical Center. It is located on the University's main campus in Washington, DC. Opened in 1851, Georgetown's School of Medicine provides a comprehensive approach to medical education, always with an eye to the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis, or "care of the whole person." Committed to training physicians in all dimensions of the delivery of humane patient care, the School of Medicine works in association with the 407-bed Georgetown University Hospital and nine affiliated federal and community hospitals in the Washington metropolitan area.