Information On Harvard Medical School

lt;/ref>}} 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 26th among research medical schools in the amount of competitive grants received from the NIH.lt;/ref> Located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill, Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts H.M.S. is home (as of Fall 2006) to 616 students in the Doctor of Medicine program, 435 in the Doctor of Philosophy program, and 155 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 (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 University affiliated hospital and institutions in Boston, Massachusetts 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 July 1, 2008.

History

The school is the third oldest medical school in the U.S. and was founded by Dr. John Warren (surgeon) 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. File:Massachusetts Medical College ca1824 MasonSt Boston.png housing the Massachusetts Medical College, Mason Street, Boston]] File:Harvard Medical School.JPG It moved from Cambridge, Massachusetts to 49 Marlborough Street in Boston, Massachusetts 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.lt;/ref>lt;/ref> 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, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Womens Hospital.

Teaching affiliates

* Massachusetts General Hospital * Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center * Brigham and Women's Hospital * Center for Engineering in Medicine http://cem.sbi.org] * Children's Hospital Boston * Dana-Farber Cancer Institute * Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary * Joslin Diabetes Center * Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital * McLean Hospital * Massachusetts Mental Health Center * Mount Auburn Hospital * Cambridge Hospital * VA Boston Healthcare System * Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare * The Forsyth Institute * Schepens Eye Research Institute

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"lt;/ref> to sellout crowds at Roxbury Community College on February 22, 23 and 24.lt;/ref>

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.lt;/ref> 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 HSTs long winning streak. * Francis Weld Peabody * William B. Castle (hematologist) * Walter Bradford Cannon * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. * Irving M. London (Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

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, Massachusetts where the author spent his internship year. In Erich Segal s book, [[Doctors (novel)|Doctors]] the main plot is set in Harvard Medical School (HMS) where the main characters attend. In the movie [[21 (2008 film)|21]] Ben Campbells goal is to attend Harvard Medical School (HMS) with proper funding. In ABCs Greys Anatomy, Dr Lexie Grey Graduated from Harvard Medical School before being accepted in Seattle Graces Intern Program.

Notable alumni

* Rayan AlGhamdi - surgeon * Brian Alan Palmer - neurosurgeon * John R. Adler - academic * Robert B. Aird - academic * Tenley Albright - figure skater * William French Anderson - geneticist * Christian B. Anfinsen - chemist * Paul S. Appelbaum - academic * Jerry Avorn - academic * Shanil Keshwani - Medical Lab Scientist-Department of Oncology * 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 Pearce, Jeremy. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/nyregion/12black.html "Dr. Ira B. Black, 64, Leader in New Jersey Stem Cell Effort, Dies"], [[The New York Times]] January 12, 2006. Retrieved August 13, 2009. * Thomas Bollier Neurologist and philanthropist * Roscoe Brady - biochemist * Henry Bryant - physician * Rafael Campo (poet) - poet * Ethan Canin - author * Walter Bradford Cannon - physiologist * William B. Castle (hematologist) - hematologist * George C. S. Choate - physician * Aram Chobanian - President of Boston University (2003-2005) * Enrique Jose Crisostomo - (class 88) Cardio-Surgeon * 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.Saxon, Wolfgang. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/10/us/hallowell-davis-96-an-explorer-who-charted-the-inner-ear-dies.html "Hallowell Davis, 96, an Explorer Who Charted the Inner Ear, Dies"], [[The New York Times]] September 10, 1992. Accessed July 19, 2010. * 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 * 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 * Robert B. Fogel Found guilty of scientific misconduct by the Office of Research Integrity * Judah Folkman - scientist * Bill Frist - U.S. Senator (1995-2007) * Atul Gawande - surgeon, author * George Lincoln Goodale - botanist * Ernest Gruening - Governor of the Alaska Territory (1939-53); U.S. Senator (1959-69) * I. Kathleen Hagen - Murder suspect * Kamran S. I * 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 * Yang Huanming - academic * 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 Francisco]]lt;ref namePamBio>http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/realworld-season3/cast_member/cast_member.jhtml?personalityId1016 Biography page for Pam Ling at mtv.com] * 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 C. Page - biologist * Hiram Polk - academic * Geoffrey Potts - academic * Morton Prince - neurologist * 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 * Talat Waseem - Scientist, Surgeon * 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 T. Wright - researcher, practitioner, first black Fellow of the American College of Surgeons http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882266,00.html Medicine: Negro Fellow. Time Magazine, 29th October 1934] Chairman of NAACP * David Wu - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999-present) * Jeffries Wyman - anatomist *

Fictional alumni

* Abbey Bartlet - First Lady of the United States on [[The West Wing (TV series)|The West Wing]] * Major Charles Emerson Winchester III - character on [[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]] * Dr. John Becker - character on the sitcom [[Becker (TV series)|Becker]] * 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 * Bernard Nadeau in [[Francoeur]] as a French-Canadian doctor who becomes the mayor of Orleans, Ontario Ontario. * Lexie Grey - character on [[Greys Anatomy]], who begins her internship at Seattle Grace Hospital after graduating. * Wilbur Larch - an obstetrician at The St. Clouds orphanage in John Irving s classic novel The Cider House Rules Adapted into film. * 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. * Dr. Frasier Crane a character on [[Cheers]] and its successful spin-off, [[Frasier]] * Eleanor Abernathy, the Crazy Cat Lady that toss living cats to everyone in The Simpsons * Father Damien Carrass in "The Exorcist". Psychologist trained at Harvard. * Dr Adam Mayfair - character on [[Desperate Housewives (TV series)|Desperate Housewives]] *Colleen Cooper, a character from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman * Ben Campbell - a member of the MIT Blackjack Team in the movie 21 (film)

See also

* Longwood Medical and Academic Area * List of Harvard University people * Harvard School of Dental Medicine

References

External links

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