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    History of Harvard Medicine

    On September 19, 1782, the president and fellows of Harvard College adopted a report, presented by President Joseph Willard, embodying plans for a medical school. With a handful of students and a faculty of three, classes at the Medical School began in 1783 at Harvard Hall in the College yard and later were transferred to Holden Hall, originally the College Chapel.

    Medical education in that era meant attending formal lectures for a semester or two, then being apprenticed to a practicing physician for several years. No academic preparation was required, and no written exams...

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    1.02 Plan of Instruction for the London Society of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST)

    The HST curriculum leads to an MD degree from HMS and is oriented toward students with a declared interest in a career in biomedical research and a strong interest and background in physical or biological sciences.

    The program is particularly appropriate for students who are planning multidisciplinary research careers in academic medicine. The curriculum, research, and clinical experiences prepare students receiving the MD to excel as physician-scientists highly qualified to care for patients and participate in biomedical research careers in which they will assume leadership...

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    5.00 Enrollment in Additional Degree Programs during Medical School

    Harvard medical students interested in pursuing a master’s degree at either a Harvard school or a program at another university in conjunction with the MD degree are eligible to enroll in a master’s program after successfully completing the first three years of medical school. The preclerkship and Principal Clinical Experience (PCE) phases of the MD curriculum progress developmentally in an uninterrupted temporal sequence in which each phase follows from, builds upon, and reinforces the preceding one. Interrupting the MD curriculum after the Pathways or HST...

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    5.01 MD-PhD Program

    Overview

     
    The mission of the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program is to train the next generation of premier and diverse physician-scientist leaders, with representation across a rich spectrum of clinical disciplines and research areas from basic and translational sciences to bioengineering and social sciences. ...
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