Opportunities for HMS Faculty

Increase Your Reach. Expand Your Impact. Discover new paths to academic advancement.

The Office for External Education provides outstanding career development benefits to Harvard Medical School faculty through expanded reach, recognition and impact; new avenues for research funding and collaborations; and opportunities for academic promotion. External Education publishing and teaching count toward HMS teaching and service requirements, and faculty are offered compensation for their contributions. More than 1,000 HMS faculty have contributed to, and taught with, External Education over the past 5 years. We are eager to engage with more of you in our important work.

Office for External Education Fall Faculty Engagement Event 2023

The Fall Faculty Engagement Event was held on October 18, 2023. In this fully virtual event, workshops were presented by leadership from Harvard Medical School's Product Development, Corporate Learning, Harvard Health Publishing, and Postgraduate Medical Education teams.

Videos from the Event Workshops are listed below:

• Meeting Them Where They Are: Creating Effective Short-Form Educational Video Content
• Teaching Corporate Executives about Health and Health Care
• Creating Quality Media Content
• Beyond Bullet Points: Creating Transformational Educational Experiences
• Creating Meaningful and Accessible Health Information for the Lay Public: Lessons Learned from Harvard Health Publishing
• Equitable and Inclusive Teaching: Cultivating Awareness and Shaping Classroom Experiences Across Different Audiences

Opportunities & Benefits for HMS Faculty: 

• Engage with international groups of learners who span 100 countries across 6 continents
• Interact with business and industry leaders from companies like Google, Moderna, Sanofi and Johnson & Johnson who are innovating in health care
• Publish on a digital platform with more than 20 million monthly pageviews
• Bring your ideas to life by building your own course, leading a webinar series, writing blog posts, or teaching on a new topic