Master of Medical Sciences in Medical Education

Curriculum

Students must earn 64 credits (56 credits if they have a joint degree with the Harvard Medical School MD program), meeting the requirements with 32 credits of coursework and 32 credits of mentored research.

Partnerships

The Harvard Macy Institute: The Harvard Macy Institute and its alumni network are recognized internationally. The program fosters and connects leaders in medical education nationally and worldwide through the highly transformative nature of the program’s structure and content. The Macy program’s directors and leading educators come from HMS, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Business School, and from a pool of scholars leading education on a global scale. The generative nature of the curriculum, combined with the opportunities to connect and collaborate with such thought leaders, is unmatched in medical education courses.

Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE): Similarly, the Medical Education program provides opportunities for learners to participate in coursework and engage with HGSE faculty. These opportunities, too, will be unmatched by other such medical education master’s programs.

The Academy at HMS: The Academy at HMS offers a wide variety of programs that benefit students in the MMSc-Med Ed. Our students have the opportunity to present posters of their work at the Academy’s annual Medical Education Day.