Harvard Medical School

Coordinates: 42°20′09″N 71°06′18″W / 42.335743°N -71.105138°E / 42.335743; -71.105138 Harvard Medical School Established 1782 Type Private Endowment US$4.2 Billion 1 Dean Jeffrey S. Flier Academic staff 10,884 Students 1,345 627 MD 141 MD-PhD 577 PhD Location Boston, Massachusetts, USA Campus Urban Website www.hms.harvard.edu Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is currently ranked first among American research medical schools by U.S. News and World Report, and ranked 21st among research medical schools in the amount of competitive grants received from the NIH.23 Located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, H.M.S. is home (as of Fall 2006) 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 problem-based learning. HST, operated by the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, emphasizes medical research. The current dean of the medical school is Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier, an endocrinologist and the former Chief Academic Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who succeeded neurologist Joseph B. Martin, M.D., Ph.D on September 1, 2007.4 Sanjiv Chopra, M.B., B.S., MACP is the Faculty Dean for the Continuing Education Department. Contents 1 History 2 Teaching affiliates 3 Student life 3.1 Second Year Show 3.2 Societies 3.3 Secret Societies 4 In fiction 5 Notable alumni 5.1 Fictional alumni 6 See also 7 References 8 External links History The school is the third oldest medical school in the U.S. and was founded by Dr. John Warren on September 19, 1782 with Benjamin Waterhouse, and Aaron Dexter. The first lectures were given in the basement of Harvard Hall and then in Holden Chapel. The first class, composed of two students, graduated in 1788. Federal architecture housing the Massachusetts Medical College, Mason Street, Boston Harvard Medical School quadrangle, view from Longwood Avenue. It moved from Cambridge to 49 Marlborough Street in Boston in 1810. From 1816 to 1846, the school, known as Massachusetts Medical College of Harvard University, was located on Mason Street. In 1847, the school relocated to North Grove Street, and then to Copley Square in 1883. The medical school moved to its current location on Longwood Avenue in 1906, where the "Great White Quadrangle" or HMS Quad with its five white marble buildings was established.56 The architect for the campus was the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. The three major flagship teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School are Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Teaching affiliates Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Brigham and Women's Hospital Cambridge Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine[1] Children's Hospital Boston Dana-Farber Cancer Institute The Forsyth Institute Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Joslin Diabetes Center Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts Mental Health Center McLean Hospital Mount Auburn Hospital Schepens Eye Research Institute Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital VA Boston Healthcare System Student life Second Year Show Every winter, second year students at HMS write, direct and perform a full length musical parody, lampooning Harvard, their professors, and themselves. 2007 was the Centennial performance as the Class of 2009 presented "Joseph Martin and the Amazing Technicolor White Coat"7 to sellout crowds at Roxbury Community College on February 22, 23 and 24.8 Societies Upon matriculation, medical and dental students at Harvard Medical School are divided into five societies named after famous HMS alumni. Each society has a master along with several associate society masters who serve as academic advisors to students.9 In the New Pathway program, students work in small group tutorials and lab sessions within their societies. Every year, the five societies compete in "Society Olympics" for the famed Pink Flamingo in a series of events (e.g. dance-off, dodgeball, limbo contest) that test the unorthodox talents of the students in each society. Cannon Society currently possesses the Pink Flamingo, finally breaking HST's long winning streak. Francis Weld Peabody William Bosworth Castle Walter Bradford Cannon Oliver Wendell Holmes Irving M. London (Health Sciences and Technology (HST)) Secret Societies The Bloque 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. In Erich Segal's book, Doctors, the main plot is set in Harvard Medical School (HMS) where the main characters attend. In the movie 21, Ben Campbell's goal is to attend Harvard Medical School (HMS) with proper funding. In ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Dr. Lexie Grey Graduated from Harvard Medical School before being accepted in Seattle Grace's Intern Program. Notable alumni John R. Adler - academic Robert B. Aird - academic Tenley Albright - figure skater Harold Amos - microbiologist10 William French Anderson - geneticist Christian B. Anfinsen - chemist Paul S. Appelbaum - academic Jerry Avorn - academic Herbert Benson - cardiologist Ira Black (1941–2006) - neuroscientist and stem cell researcher who served as the first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.11 Roscoe Brady - biochemist Henry Bryant - physician Rafael Campo - poet Ethan Canin - author Walter Bradford Cannon - physiologist William B. Castle - hematologist George C. S. Choate - physician Aram Chobanian - President of Boston University (2003–2005) Stanley Cobb - neurologist Ernest Codman - physician Albert Coons - physician, immunologist, & Lasker Award winner Michael Crichton - author Harvey Cushing - neurosurgeon Elliott Cutler - surgeon Hallowell Davis (1896–1992) - researcher of hearing, contributor to the invention of the electroencephalograph.12 Fe del Mundo - pediatrician, first Filipino and possibly first woman admitted to HMS (1936) Allan S. Detsky - physician James Madison DeWolf - soldier; physician Peter Diamandis - entrepreneur Daniel DiLorenzo - entrepreneur; neurosurgeon; inventor Thomas Dwight - anatomist Lawrence Eron - infectious disease physician Edward Evarts - neuroscientist Sidney Farber - pathologist Paul Farmer - infectious disease physician; global health Harvey V. Fineberg - academic administrator John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald - Mayor of Boston (1906–08; 1910–14) Thomas Fitzpatrick - dermatologist Judah Folkman - scientist Bill Frist - U.S. Senator (1995–2007) Atul Gawande - surgeon, author Susan Spratt - endocrinologist at the renowned DUKE Medical Center, author, politician's daughter, historian George Lincoln Goodale - botanist Ernest Gruening - Governor of the Alaska Territory (1939–53); U.S. Senator (1959–69) I. Kathleen Hagen - Murder suspect Dean Hamer - geneticist Alice Hamilton - first female faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Michael R. Harrison - pediatrician Bernadine Healy - Director of the National Institutes of Health (1991–93); CEO of the American Red Cross (1999–2001) Ronald A. Heifetz - academic Lawrence Joseph Henderson - biochemist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - physician; poet William James - philosopher Mildred Fay Jefferson activist; first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School. Elliott P. Joslin - diabetololgist Nathan Cooley Keep - dentist Jim Kim - physician, global health leader Melvin Konner - author and biological anthropologist Charles Krauthammer - columnist Philip J. Landrigan - epidemiologist and pediatrician Aristides Leão - biologist Philip Leder - geneticist Simon LeVay - neuroscientist Pam Ling - castmate on The Real World: San Francisco13 Joseph Lovell - Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1818–36) Karl Menninger - psychiatrist Randell Mills - scientist Joseph Murray - surgeon Joel Mark Noe - plastic surgeon Amos Nourse - U.S. Senator (1857) David Page - biologist Hiram Polk - academic Geoffrey Potts - academic Morton Prince - neurologist Jayantibhai Patel - Cardiothoracic Surgeon Shanil Keshwani - medical scientist Alexander Rich - biophysicist Oswald Hope Robertson - medical scientist Wilfredo Santa-Gómez - author Alfred Sommer (ophthalmologist) - academic Philip Solomon (psychiatrist) - academic Paul Spangler - Naval surgeon and record setting Senior Long distance runner Felicia Stewart - physician Lubert Stryer - academic Yellapragada Subbarao Biochemist James B. Sumner - chemist Helen B. Taussig - cardiologist John Templeton, Jr - president of the John Templeton Foundation E. Donnall Thomas - physician Lewis Thomas - essayist Abby Howe Turner - academic Richard Urman - physician George Eman Vaillant - psychiatrist Mark Vonnegut - author, pediatrician Joseph Warren - soldier Andrew Weil - proponent of alternative medicine Paul Dudley White - cardiologist Patrisha Zobel de Ayala - Chairman of World Medical Association, surgeon, anesthesiologist, neurologist, medical researcher, physician Charles F. Winslow-early atomic theorist Leonard Wood - Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army ; Governor-General of the Philippines Louis Tompkins Wright - researcher, practitioner, first black Fellow of the American College of Surgeons,14 Chairman of NAACP David Wu - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999–present) Jeffries Wyman - anatomist Yang Huanming - academic Fictional alumni Eleanor Abernathy, the Crazy Cat Lady that toss living cats to everyone in The Simpsons Abbey Bartlet - First Lady of the United States on The West Wing Dr. John Becker - character on the sitcom Becker Ben Campbell - a member of the MIT Blackjack Team in the movie 21 (film) Father Damien Carrass in "The Exorcist". Psychologist trained at Harvard. Colleen Cooper, a character from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Dr. Frasier Crane, a character on Cheers, and its successful spin-off, Frasier. Paris Geller - character on Gilmore Girls, commits to attending the school at the end of the series after her term as an undergraduate from Yale Lexie Grey - character on Grey's Anatomy, who begins her internship at Seattle Grace Hospital after graduating. Wilbur Larch - an obstetrician at The St. Cloud's orphanage in John Irving's classic novel The Cider House Rules. Adapted into film. Dr. Adam Mayfair - character on Desperate Housewives Bernard Nadeau in Francoeur, as a French-Canadian doctor who becomes the mayor of Orleans, Ontario. Dr. Elliot Nussbaum from Drake & Josh graduated at age 13 and was published in The New England Journal of Medicine at the age of 15. Amelia Shepherd - character on Private Practice, who graduated top of her class at Harvard Medical School. Major Charles Emerson Winchester III - character on M*A*S*H See also Longwood Medical and Academic Area List of Harvard University people Harvard School of Dental Medicine Ivy League medical schools References ^ a b "Harvard Medicine - Basic Facts". http://hms.harvard.edu/hms/facts.asp. Retrieved February 25, 2010.  ^ "NIH Awards to Medical Schools by Rank, FY 2005". Report.nih.gov. 2006-08-30. http://report.nih.gov/award/rank/medttl05.htm. Retrieved 2010-06-30.  ^ "Ranking Tables of NIH Medical School Funding". http://www.brimr.org/NIH_Awards/NIH_Awards.htm.  ^ "Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Medicine". http://hms.harvard.edu/public/news/new-dean.html.  ^ "Harvard Medical School - History". http://hms.harvard.edu/public/history/history.html. Retrieved February 25, 2007.  ^ "Countway Medical Library - Records Management - Historical Notes". Archived from the original on September 1, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060901175511/http://www.countway.harvard.edu/archives/historyNotes.shtml. Retrieved February 25, 2007.  ^ "Class of 2009 Second Year Show". http://www.secondyearshow.com/. Retrieved March 11, 2007.  ^ "SECOND YEAR SHOW: New Curriculum Debuts in Second Year Show". http://focus.hms.harvard.edu/2007/030907/second_year_show.shtml. Retrieved March 11, 2007.  ^ "Medical Education at Harvard Medical School". http://hms.harvard.edu/pme/societies.asp.  ^ "Dr. Harold Amos, 84; Mentor to Aspiring Minority Physicians". Los Angeles Times. 2003-03-08. http://articles.latimes.com/2003/mar/08/local/me-passings8.2. Retrieved 2011-02-19.  ^ Pearce, Jeremy. "Dr. Ira B. Black, 64, Leader in New Jersey Stem Cell Effort, Dies", The New York Times, January 12, 2006. Retrieved August 13, 2009. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang. "Hallowell Davis, 96, an Explorer Who Charted the Inner Ear, Dies", The New York Times, September 10, 1992. Accessed July 19, 2010. ^ Biography page for Pam Ling at mtv.com ^ Medicine: Negro Fellow. 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