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The
Harvard Program in the History of Medicine conducts a vigorous educational
curriculum at all levels of the University. The Program has established
an especially strong medical history curriculum for Harvard undergraduates
in the honors concentration, History and Science. Students in this program
spend three years in a structured tutorial program, eventually writing
an original senior honors thesis in the history of medicine and science.
Currently more than 160 Harvard students are enrolled in the program.
The Program reaches a large number of non-concentrators as well; more
than 250 undergraduates were enrolled in the Core Curriculum course,
Medicine and Society in America, in the fall term, 1999.
The doctoral program in the history of medicine is among the most active
in the United States. Students in the Program work on a wide array of
historical issues. Further, doctoral candidates participate actively
in the undergraduate teaching programs as teaching assistants and tutors.
In recent years, the program, in addition to training Ph.D.s, has successfully
recruited a number of physicians and medical students to do a combined
M.D./Ph.D.
History of medicine courses constitute an important aspect of the required
selectives in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In recent years,
courses on the social history of medicine; the history of ethics and
values in health care; as well as other tutorial instruction has been
offered. Further, historical analysis is an important component of the
interdisciplinary offerings in the Department. In recent years, a number
of Harvard medical students have conducted independent research in the
history of medicine, earning academic honors in the field.
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