Teaching & Mentoring Opportunities
Pathways
The Pathways MD track at Harvard Medical School offers a variety of teaching opportunities for qualified faculty members in the preclerkship curriculum. To meet eligibility requirements for teaching in required HMS courses, individuals must have a Harvard faculty appointment at the level of Lecturer or above, or be a qualified trainee (clinical or research fellow) approved by a faculty course director. Policy information about faculty appointments can be found on the Faculty Affairs website.
Teaching roles and responsibilities vary by course. Opportunities are posted here when available.
Position Now Available!
Co-Director of Immunity Defense and Disease Course
Immunity Defense and Disease (IDD) is a required second-year Pathways medical and dental student course (enrollment ~170) that covers clinical aspects of the immune system (including autoimmunity), allergy, infectious diseases, and common disorders of the skin and joints. IDD runs mostly over four afternoons a week, generally from 1 pm-5 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, with some occasional morning sessions, during a five-week period from mid-August through mid-September each year. Planning for each year’s offering of the course generally begins in January. The ideal candidate for IDD co-director would be a physician faculty member in a relevant specialty with experience in teaching medical students.
Please respond to the IDD RFA form by the deadline of November 15, 2025. If you have any immediate questions, feel free to reach out directly to office_deanformedicaleducation@hms.harvard.edu. We look forward to seeing your applications.
Bernard S. Chang, MD
Dean for Medical Education
K. Meredith Atkins, MD
Associate Dean for Medical Education
HST
Faculty interested in participating in the HST MD curriculum are encouraged to send a copy of their CV and the course(s) in which they are interested to london_society@hms.harvard.edu.
Position Now Available!
HMS Co-Director, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and Advisory Dean, Irving M. London Society
The job description can be found on both the internal and external talent gateways of Harvard’s recruitment management system, Careers@Harvard, reference number 001625SR. Interested candidates may view the posting and apply for the position.
Please feel free to pass this information on to colleagues both within and outside HMS, and encourage strong candidates to apply.
Bernard S. Chang, MD
Dean for Medical Education
Electives & Medical Language
Position Available Now!
Medical Arabic Instructor at Harvard Medical School
The HMS Office of Scholarly Engagement is seeking a native Arabic-speaking physician to serve as the lead instructor of the Intermediate Medical Arabic course offered to HMS students for the Spring 2026 semester (February-May) and Fall 2026 semester (September–December 2026). The course focuses on oral speaking skills in patient care. Students are high-beginner to intermediate speakers of Arabic, typically in their first year of medical school. This course is offered for 90 minutes once a week in the late afternoon or early evening during the Fall semester (approximately 13 classes). No class is held during vacation weeks.
The goals of the course are 1) to enable students to conduct a history and physical examination of a patient in Arabic, 2) to present those findings to other clinicians, and 3) to familiarize students with cultural humility in caring for Arabic-speaking patients. Course references and a sample curriculum are available for planning the course sessions. Guest speakers may be invited to cover specific medical topics at various times of the year. The lead instructor will develop the syllabus and course content with the HMS Language Program Faculty Director with assistance from previous Arabic instructors. We are looking for that gifted individual who can combine grammar, medical language training, and cultural humility instruction to exceptional students who have a quick capacity to learn Arabic.
The ideal candidate will have demonstrated excellence in teaching medical students and the ability to teach a range of proficiency levels of Arabic. An honorarium ($1500 per semester) will be dispensed to the instructor’s department per HMS policy. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled, but please apply no later than December 10, 2025.
Applicants should submit a cover letter with a statement describing their teaching philosophy and a CV or resume to Marcie Naumowicz in the Office of Scholarly Engagement.
Propose an Advanced Elective Course
Mentoring
Additional faculty opportunities include:
OSCE Clinical Skills Assessment
The HMS Program in Medical Education (PME) Committee on Assessment has recommended the creation of Core Faculty for Clinical Skills Assessment (CF-CSA), who will be responsible for directly observing and assessing medical students’ clinical skills during standardized patient (SP)/objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) sessions. Specific skills to be assessed include but are not limited to ability to take a history, perform a physical examination, make diagnostic and treatment decisions, and communicate with a patient.