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Harvard Medical School is one of the world's preeminent institutions in medical education and
research. The breadth and depth of its scientific and clinical disciplines are unsurpassed.
The School has nearly 8,000 faculty and 17 affiliated facilities.
At the core of the Medical School are its educational and research programs. The student body
is composed of 650 men and women in the MD program; 477 students in the PhD program; and 132 in
the joint MD-PhD programs, part of which is sponsored in collaboration with MIT. For its medical
students, Harvard has inaugurated the New Pathway curriculum, a problem-solving, case-method
approach to learning, offering the opportunity to come in contact with patient cases early in
their studies.
The Medical School has nine departments in basic and social science disciplines: Biological Chemistry and
Molecular Pharmacology, Cell Biology, Genetics,
Microbiology and
Molecular Genetics, Neurobiology, Pathology,
Ambulatory Care and Prevention,
Health Care Policy, and Social Medicine.
The Medical School is the largest of Harvard's graduate faculties and has traditionally been a trend-setter for many University-wide
initiatives.
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