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About the Institute
Established in 1994 with a $1.5 million grant from the Josiah
Macy Jr. Foundation and an additional $2 million in 1997, the Harvard
Macy Institute aims to create and foster a community of scholars
who work to promote innovative change in healthcare education. The
institute is a collaborative effort of the Harvard Medical School,
the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Business
School. In 2001, the Institute began a new partnership with Harvard
Medical International. This partnership will enable the Institute
to create additional alliances with the global healthcare education
community, providing opportunities to design and develop specific
programs that address unique curricular planning efforts worldwide.
Faculties from the three Harvard schools work together to design
and implement two programs each year. The Program for Educators in
the Health Professions, formally the Program for Physician Educators, targets physicians, basic scientists,
and others in the allied healthcare fields who have a strong
interest in teaching and learning in the academic healthcare environment
but have no advance training in education.
The Program for Leading Innovations
in Health Care & Education is designed for those interested in learning
more about techniques for promoting organizational change.
In 2007, two new courses will be introduced to the
schedule of Boston-based programs. From March
18-25, the Institute will sponsor the
Program for Comprehensive Assessment in
Health Science Education which will be geared
toward academic faculty, health care educators and administrators
responsible for assessment of students/residents, faculty,
educational programs, or embarking on institutional assessment for
accreditation. In conjunction with the Harvard School of
Dental Medicine, the institute has developed a program for
dental faculty that will address their specific needs and
issues. Managing
Change in Dental Practice and Education is
scheduled for May 13-17.
Since its inception in 1994, the Institute has trained over 1000
healthcare educators worldwide. This group has developed into an
international alumni community committed to a lively ongoing dialogue
on healthcare education reform.
Read what program participants have
said about the Harvard Macy experience:
"I have returned to the fray
invigorated and enthused by the whole Harvard Macy
programme which was such an enriching, empowering,
affirming and at the same deeply challenging and
intellectually stimulating experience. I have so many
ideas buzzing around my head!!! ..... a remarkable
international success - the positive ripples of which
reach right round the globe!" Ken MacLeod, Clinical Sub-Dean,
Peninsula Medical School, May 2005
"The weeklong Harvard Macy Institute was
inspiring, stimulating and transformative. It
has shifted and reframed my understanding of leadership
and management....The course was well-organized and
its intensity fostered a high level of participant
engagement and personal leaps in understanding...I have
returned to my institutional context ready to not only
proceed with renewed focus and vigor, but with a new
perspective on the challenges and opportunities inherent
in my work." William Agbor Baiyee, PhD.,
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine,
Indiana University School of Medicine, June 2005.
"Thank you
for the wonderful learning experience at the Harvard Macy program.
It has re-inspired me to continue exploring new ways to
engage students. It was truly the best "CME" program I
have attended; I put CME in quotes as I do not think that
word does complete justice to the program. The QI
curriculum at Mayo has taken off and is doing quite well.
It has generated some external interest as well. The
learnings from the Harvard Macy program certainly helped me think
more about the instructional and curriculum reform
process." Prathibha Varkey, M.D., Associate
Program Director - Preventive Medicine Fellowship Program,
Mayo Clinic, May 2004.
"I have
returned twice as faculty to Harvard Macy….the experience
was so important that I wanted to contribute as a
group leader… Each
year the participants are an amazing cohort of medical educators
and I learn as
much or more from them than they do from me.”
Ann Poncelet, M.D., Clinical Clerkship Director,
Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
"The Harvard Macy Institute Program allowed me
the opportunity to learn how to be an educator.
The program was the ideal setting to poll the best
ideas in the world for the design of our new medical
school curriculum." Imad Najm, M.D., Director
of Epilepsy Fellowship Program, Cleveland Clinic
Lerner College of Medicine, February 2003.
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