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July 10, 2008
HMS staff member (name withheld by request) Organizational Structures Report My comment relates to the organizational structure subcommittee report. While I thought the report was excellent, I thought that one component that was missing was some analysis of the cultural barriers to collaboration and some suggestions about how these would be addressed. I'd like to see some discussion about what kind of change management process would be used to create what is, in effect, a broad-scale culture change and reorientation of researchers and clinicians values, many of whom have been working for decades in a system that does not necessarily incentivize collaboration.
April 16, 2008
HMS student (name withheld by request) Scholarly project "requirement" As a current HMS student, I read the comments regarding the benefits of establishing a "scholarly project" requirement with trepidation. I hope my words are not miscontrued. I visited Stanford as one of my choices for medical school... Thank you for writing about the scholarly requirement. From reading your note, I would conclude that you are concerned about requiring students to participate in research...
April 15, 2008
HMS staff member (name withheld by request) Strategic Planning Site Please provide a link to any published reports within the page for the relevant advisory group. Thank you for your thoughtful and excellent suggestion. As they become available, we’re making committee reports available via links within the Advisory group pages.
April 15, 2008
HMS staff member (name withheld by request) Communicating with PhDs and PostDocs Countway Librarians would strongly support SAGE recommendation 3.1. We currently have no way of communicating with the PhDs and PostDocs who are scattered throughout laboratories at affiliated institutions... It is true that the student and postdoc populations are widely dispersed and this often makes communication efforts difficult. However, working together with the Division of Medical Sciences...
April 15, 2008
HMS postdoc office, formerly (name withheld by request) Postdoc outcomes Tracking postdoc outcomes has been suggested but is not necessarily mandated by funding sources, which might account for the lack of data. There needs to be an institutional commitment to set up procedures... These are all fantastic points, some of which are in the pipeline and some that need critical attention. Currently the HMS/HSDM Office for Postdoctoral Fellows... April 13, 2008 You address an important problem - namely the increase in regulatory burden that occurs at HMS and Harvard hospitals because we do not function as a single biomedical institution. In the strategic plan white paper on Structures, our committee identified ways to overcome these barriers - in brief, by creating a single entity (Harvard Biomedicine) under which many issues could be addressed (joint fundraising, new collaborative efforts, and establishing unified policy for regulation of animal and human subjects research). The goal of this would be to decrease burden, not simply add another layer to administration.
March 21, 2008
HMS graduate student (name withheld by request) The Vanishing Post Doc The attrition rate from graduate student to faculty is extremely high, roughly 98%. Most of this attrition occurs at the post doc level. For several reasons, post doctoral fellows simply evaporate... continue reading >
March 21, 2008
HMS faculty member (name withheld by request) Developing graduate level courses One of the most exciting aspects of science at HMS and Harvard is that traditional boundaries for areas of scientific inquiry are dissolving. This crossfertilization leads rapidly to new innovations... continue reading >
March 18, 2008
HMS staff member (name withheld by request) Timing of strategic planning outcomes This site is a very interesting window into how the strategic planning process works. I was wondering when we might expect the recommendations of the committees to start to come out... continue reading > Reports and recommendations from the advisory groups are starting to come in — please check this site frequently for updates. Your comments on the recommendations, as well as your suggestions about areas that may need additional attention, are encouraged.
February 15, 2008
HMS faculty member (name withheld by request) Medical education How about offering an MD/Master's program so that for the 5th year if research is elected, a student can earn a Master's degree. This was (and I believe is still offered) at Washington University Medical School... This is a great suggestion, and coincides exactly with a plan that's currently being developed by the Strategic Advisory Group on Education (SAGE)....
January 31, 2008
HMS faculty member (name withheld by request) Evidence-based Clinical Medicine and Research Informs Results Published clinical data continues to challenge students, residents, fellows, and faculty because they don't have the skills and/or the time to identify problems with bias, subject risk level, confounding, and external validity...
January 29, 2008
HMS student (name withheld by request) PCE selection The selection of PCE for rising 3rd year students is filled with trepidation. Many of the "informative sessions" in many ways perpetuate the frustration and anxiety many students feel... Thank you for this interesting suggestion. As it turns out, we learned quite a lot about how to help students choose their PCE sites from the initial attempt this fall...
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