Harvard Medical School Totally Explained

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Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
As of Fall 2006, HMS is home to 616 students in the M.D. program, 435 in the Ph.D. program, and 155 in the M.D.-Ph.D program.

Major teaching affiliates

These three institutions are often referred to as the "Harvard Trinity" by students and faculty. This is because their affiliations have been in place for the greatest period of time and every department is directly affiliated with the medical school.

Teaching affiliates

Children's Hospital Boston

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Mount Auburn Hospital

Joslin Diabetes Center

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

McLean Hospital

Cambridge Hospital

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

The Forsyth Institute

VA Boston Healthcare System

Schepens Eye Research Institute (External Link

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Harvard Medical School's Center for Mental Health and Media

This center, co-founded by Cheryl Olson and Lawrence Kutner, studies the effects of media on behavior. In 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice asked Olson and Kutner to run federally funded studies of how video games affect adolescents. Among other things, Olson and Kutner found positive and paradoxical dimensions of playing video games with violence in them: these games helped kids grapple with life's scariest experiences. Olson and Kutner also found that video games helped less social or popular children to socialize online. Moreover, they didn't find a link between violent video game paying and school shootings. Olson and Kutner's findings are featured in Greater Good magazine, Greater Good Science Center.

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" to sellout crowds at Roxbury Community College on February 22, 23 and 24.

Societies

Upon matriculation, medical and dental students at Harvard Medical School are divided into five societies named after famous HMS alumni, with the exception of HST. Each has a society master along with several associate society masters who serve as academic advisors to students. 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 (for example dance-off, dodgeball, limbo contest) that test the unorthodox talents of the students in each society. HST currently possesses the Pink Flamingo, having won it three years in a row.

Francis Weld Peabody

William Bosworth Castle

Walter Bradford Cannon

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Health Sciences and Technology (HST)

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 (novel)", the main plot is set in Harvard Medical School (HMS) where the main characters attend.

Notable alumni

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

Herbert Benson - cardiologist

Thomas Bollier- Neurologist and philanthropist

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

Michael Crichton - author

Harvey Cushing - neurosurgeon

Yellapragada Subbarao Biochemist

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

Bruce Donoff - HSDM/HMS oral & maxillofacial Surgery

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

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 - academic

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

Bruce Rusty Lang - U.S. Army Special Forces, international physician

Aristides Leão - biologist

Philip Leder - geneticist

Simon LeVay - neuroscientist

Joseph Lovell - Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1818-36)

Karl Menninger - psychiatrist

Randell Mills - scientist

Joseph Betcher - Biochemist

Joseph Murray - surgeon

Amos Nourse - U.S. Senator (1857)

David 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

Felicia Stewart - physician

Lubert Stryer - academic

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 - academic

George Eman Vaillant - psychiatrist

Milton Viederman - psychiatrist

Mark Vonnegut - author

Joseph Warren - soldier

Andrew Weil - proponent of alternative medicine

Paul Dudley White - cardiologist

Robert O. Wilson - surgeon, humanitarian

Charles F. Winslow-early atomic theorist

Leonard Wood - Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (1910-14); Governor-General of the Philippines (1921-27)

Louis Tompkins Wright - World renowned researcher, practitioner, pioneer African American, Chairman of NAACP, among other distinctions

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

Major Charles Emerson Winchester III - character on M*A*S*H

John Becker - character on the sitcom 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

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. 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.Further Information

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