Since its inception in 1994, the Harvard Macy Institute has trained over 2,000 health care educators worldwide, through three highly regarded continuing education programs offered annually. The major objective of these programs is to help participants -- whether they chair departments, serve as academic deans, direct training programs, or create curricula -- develop the strategies and skills required to lead organizational change and drive innovation. The faculty who have participated in the Institute's programs have developed into an international alumni community committed to a lively ongoing dialogue on health care education reform and innovation.
Established with a grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the Institute is a collaborative effort of Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Harvard Business School. Preeminent Harvard faculty members like Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong (HMS), Dr. Clay Christensen (HBS), and Dr. Robert Kegan (HGSE) work with colleagues from leading institutions around the world to design and implement the programs. Many program alumni return to the Institute to serve as faculty.
“As I look back at educational reform at Georgetown , it is with gratitude to the Harvard Macy Institute for assisting in more than a decade of sustained faculty development at our institution- for energizing and catalyzing change among key educators on the Georgetown faculty. Change has not only occurred because of the energy generated by nearly a dozen Harvard Macy alumni, it has been directed by those faculty members in collaboration with Harvard Macy alumni around the country and around the world.”
Stephen R. Mitchell, M.D., Dean for Medical Education, Georgetown University School of Medicine
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