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A health care practitioner wearing a white coat and holding a stethoscope stands in front of an American flag

Mobilizing Voters and Shaping Policy for Better Health

October 15, 2024

HMS physicians and students promote civic engagement to improve patient care and outcomes

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Training Inventors of Future Medicines

September 6, 2024

New educational opportunities immerse HMS students in drug discovery and development

Seven medical and dental students wearing white coats seated in amphitheater smiling and laughing as they listen to patients.

Class of 2028 Welcomed to Their New Home

August 8, 2024

Harvard medical and dental students settle in and begin training during White Coat week

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What It’s Like to Be in Medical School with a Nonapparent Disability

July 18, 2024

Kiki Schmalfuss shares her experiences as a medical student and patient

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Medical Students with ‘Invisible’ Disabilities Are Improving Patient Care

July 18, 2024

As patients themselves, they’re shaping the doctors they want to be and to have

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Harvard Medical School Students and Boston Community Organizers Learn Together

July 11, 2024

New director shares vision for Office for Community-Centered Medical Education

A sign pointing the way to the “colored waiting room” in a 1943 photo of a scene from Rome, Georgia, symbolizes how a legacy of historic racism leads to unequal health care for Black people, Native Americans, and members of other groups that still face discrimination today.

Journal Editors and Scholars Confront a History of Medical Discrimination

July 1, 2024

Understanding the roots of racism and social determinants of health to make a better future

A surgical team of doctors and nurses wearing blue scrubs, gauzy head coverings, and medical masks adjust lights, provide anesthesia, and perform other actions necessary for an operation, all gathered around the patient on the operating table. Health equity requires access to surgical care.

Global Surgery: A Bold Plan for Access, Equity

May 31, 2024

HMS-led community is working to bring basic surgery, anesthesia to 5 billion people who need it

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Preparing Medical Students and Doctors to Confront Climate Change

May 29, 2024

Gaurab Basu leads climate education efforts at Harvard Medical School and beyond

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PhD Graduates Anticipate Careers of ‘Benevolent Achievement’

May 24, 2024

147 students receive doctoral degrees, devoting themselves to biomedical change

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Harvard Medical School, Dental School Graduation 2024

May 23, 2024

Graduates ready to face challenges and seize opportunities to improve health for all

More than a dozen graduates in regalia cheer on the marble stairway at one side of HMS's Gordon Hall

Harvard Medical School Master’s Graduates See Possibilities Everywhere

May 22, 2024

Diverse class poised to become leaders in wide array of biomedical fields

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