Harvard Medical School

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Shield of Harvard Medical School
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Harvard Medical School quadrangle, view from Longwood Avenue.

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 of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The school was founded by Dr. John Warren and established in 1782, and was moved from Cambridge to Boston in 1810.

As of Fall 2006, HMS is home to 616 students in the M.D. program, 435 in the Ph.D. program, and 155 in the M.D.-Ph.D program.[1] 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 (see Medical Scientist Training Program).

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.

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Major Teaching Affiliates

These three institutions are often referred to as the "Harvard Trinity" by students and faculty. This is because their affiliations have been in place for the greatest period of time and every department is directly affiliated with the medical school.

Teaching Affiliates

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.

Societies

Harvard Medical School is divided into five societies. Students are placed in these societies when they are accepted into the medical school. The societies are named after famous Harvard Medical School Alumni with one notable exception being HST. HST contains students involved in the Harvard/MIT program. The five societies compete in "Society Olympics" once a year for the Pink Flamingo. HST currently possesses the Pink Flamingo.

  • Peabody
  • Castle
  • Cannon
  • Holmes
  • Health Sciences and Technology (HST)

Notable alumni

Fictional alumni

See also

External links

Reference

  1. ^ "Harvard Medicine - Basic Facts". http://hms.harvard.edu/hms/facts.asp. Retrieved on December 15 2006. 

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