Harvard Medical School
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Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area section of Boston, Massachusetts. The school was founded by Dr. John Warren and established in 1782, and was moved from Cambridge to Boston in 1810.
HMS is home to about 650 students in the M.D. program, 550 in the Ph.D program, and 130 in the M.D.-Ph.D program. HMS M.D.-Ph.D program allows a student to receive an M.D. from HMS and a Ph.D from either Harvard or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The school has a large and distinguished faculty to support its missions of education, research, and clinical care. These faculty hold appointments in the basic science departments on the HMS Quadrangle, and in the clinical departments located in multiple Harvard-affiliated hospitals and institutions in Boston. There are approximately 2,900 full- and part-time voting faculty members consisting of assistant, associate, and full professors, and over 5,000 full or part-time non-voting instructors.
Prospective students apply to one of two tracks to the M.D. degree. New Pathway, the larger of the two programs, emphasizes case-based learning. HST, operated by the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, emphasizes medical research. Starting with the class of 2010, the New Pathway curriculum will be revised.
The current Dean of the medical school is Professor Joseph B. Martin.
Teaching affiliates
They include:
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Children's Hospital
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Mount Auburn Hospital
- Cambridge Hospital
- Joslin Diabetes Center
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
- McLean Hospital
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
In fiction
In Samuel Shem's book, The House of God, the medical school and its students are referred to as BMS (Best Medical School/Students). The novel is set in the famed Beth Israel Deaconess hospital in Boston where the author spent his internship year.
Famous Alumni
- Bill Frist
- Walter Bradford Cannon
- Michael Crichton
- Harvey Cushing
- Paul Farmer
- Judah Folkman
- Atul Gawande
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- William James
- Jim Kim
- Joseph Murray
- Andrew Weil
See also
External links
| Schools of Harvard University |
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| Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences>Faculty of Arts and Sciences: College • Graduate School of Arts and Sciences • Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences • Continuing Education |
| Faculty of Medicine: Harvard Medical School>Medical School • School of Dental Medicine |
| Harvard Divinity School>Divinity School • Law School • Business School • Graduate School of Design |
| Harvard Graduate School of Education>Graduate School of Education • School of Public Health • Kennedy School of Government |
| Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (successor to Radcliffe College) |
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