Featured Faculty Opportunities

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Educational Leadership Opportunity:

If you have interest and experience in undergraduate medical education and the appropriate expertise for the position below and are interested in expanding your footprint in medical student teaching and mentoring, you are encouraged to apply to this educational leadership role.

More specific information about this position will be made available to those interested. If you have any immediate questions, feel free to reach out directly to office_deanformedicaleducation@hms.harvard.edu.

We are committed to increasing the number of faculty from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine who lead courses, clerkships, offices, and programs in the PME at HMS.

Director of Scholarly Engagement

The Office of Scholarly Engagement supports Harvard medical students as they pursue research, service, clinical training and enrichment opportunities in Boston and around the world. The office coordinates the scholarly project graduation requirement; funding for student research and conferences; Soma Weiss Student Research Day; the MD with Honors program; global health experiences and clinical elective exchanges; medical language training; and the News You Can Use newsletter. The faculty director provides strategic leadership and supervises the office’s operations in collaboration with several administrative staff members. The ideal candidate would be a faculty member (either physician or PhD scientist) with experience in mentoring medical students and familiarity with the HMS research ecosystem.

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.

To apply, see link and info above under Featured Faculty Opportunities.

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 Dr. Richard Mitchell.

Electives & Medical Language

Position Available: 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 Fall semester (September–December 2025). 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.

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.

Fellowship Opportunity

The Academy at Harvard Medical School offers the Academy Fellowship in Medical Education and Scholarship which provides rigorous and comprehensive training preparing fellows for an academic career as leaders, innovators and scholars in academic medicine. This two-year fellowship can support up to six fellows.

Participants of this program:

  • Develop and enhance teaching skills for classroom and clinical settings
  • Gain expertise in curriculum development
  • Advance knowledge on educational science and theory
  • Acquire knowledge and skills to become educational leaders and change agents within academic communities
  • Develop expertise in quantitative and qualitative research
  • Complete a scholarly project that supports the HMS mission
  • Join a community of HMS educators dedicated to enriching and advancing the field of medical education

Application

The application form includes a request for a brief bio, description of prior and current commitment to medical education, as well as an approximately 500-word description of a proposed project. You will also be asked to upload a cover letter, your HMS CV or NIH biosketch.

The next application cycle will open in the spring of 2026.