The Academy aims to advance the education of physicians and scientists throughout Harvard Medical School by aligning with HMS’s program in medical education to:

1. Support HMS’s educational community
2. Foster the careers of educators in medicine and science
3. Provide educational programming 
4. Stimulate educational innovations 
5. Support educational research and scholarship

The Academy hosts regular seminars and major symposia on topics of interest to medical and medical science educators including:

• Medical Education Grand Rounds
• The Symposium on the Science of Learning
• Medical Education Day

We welcome all members of the HMS community to attend Academy symposia and medical education grand rounds.

Academy Events Calendar (and recordings of past programming; HarvardKey log on)

The Academy at Harvard Medical School offers the Academy Fellowship in Medical Education and Scholarship which provides rigorous and comprehensive training preparing fellows for an academic career as leaders, innovators and scholars in academic medicine. 

For more information visit the Academy Fellowship in Medical Education and Scholarship webpage. 

The Office of Educational Scholarship provides guidance and consultation for HMS-affiliates pursuing educational research involving HMS students and faculty. The office works in close collaboration with the Longwood Campus Institutional Review Board (IRB) and The PME Educational Scholarship Review Committee to screen relevant research proposals for scientific merit, alignment with HMS curricular priorities, and the level of research burden on students. This office also determines whether a study is considered Educational Quality Improvement (QI) vs research for IRB purposes.

All studies that involve Harvard Medical School students and/or teaching faculty as study subjects or analysis of existing data related to HMS students and/or teaching faculty require the approval of the Program in Medical Education (PME) Educational Scholarship Review Committee. Consultation is available for faculty who wish to have their survey reviewed prior to submitting a proposal.

• Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• The Brigham Education Institute at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• The Boston Children’s Hospital Academy for Teaching and Educational Innovation and Scholarship
• The Harvard Macy Institute
• The Academies Collaborative
• The AAMC Medical Education Initiatives
• The Peter L. Slavin, MD Academy for Applied Learning in Health Care