Getting Started:
In preparation for completing the electronic program application, please consider how you would reply to the questions below. We ask that you provide this information when you submit your application. Specific spaces are designated on the electronic application to record your responses.
1. A one page biosketch that deals your educational activities over the past five years. There are 3 sections to the biosketch, each section is limited to maximum of 1000 characters including spaces: Education and Professional Experience; Scholarly Interest; and Personal Background. Please attach an electronic photo of yourself as a ‘jpeg’ file. (Please do not attached your complete Curriculum Vitae.)
2. Participants in all the Harvard Macy Institute programs are required to bring an issue, challenge or project that they will work on while at Harvard. The work you bring to the program should be pertinent to your institution and will be instrumental in forming the foundation for learning that takes place during the program. Depending on which program you are applying to, please review the description and requirements of this required component of your application below. The description should not exceed one page.
NB: If you are a member of an institutional team that will be working jointly on the same project, issue or challenge, each individual team member will need to submit an application along with the description of the work. This description can be the same for all team members however each description should include the names of all team members.
Program for Educators in Healthcare Professions
Project Proposal:
A one page project proposal (limited to a maximum of 3300 characters including spaces) of the institutional project you plan to develop during the program. Please include the following items in your description:
- Define the project. What are you trying to accomplish? What is the aim?
- Describe the current problem that it addresses at your institution. Who will benefit from this project?
- Predict/hypothesize what changes you can make that will result in an improvement. Identify barriers to implementation and necessary resources for your project.
- How will you evaluation whether your project has created an improvement?
Some examples of projects are: designing and teaching a new or revised course/clerkship or residency rotation; creating a faculty development program; introducing or enhancing professional rewards for healthcare educators; integrating technological advances with curriculum design.
A Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Science Education
Current Challenges in Assessment:
Each participant will be assigned to an institutional planning group. Time will be set aside during the program for you to meet with your group & faculty advisor to consult with each other on an assessment and evaluation challenge that is pertinent to your institution. Take a moment to briefly describe the most challenging aspect of assessment and evaluation from your perspective. Please describe your particular challenge, and then propose a solution. To implement your solution define the resources needed, barriers to overcome, and stakeholders involved. (Entire description is limited to 3300 characters including spaces).
Some examples of challenges are: devising an assessment plan for a new or existing course or program; designing an assessment system that integrates evaluation information from multiple levels and from multiple evaluators; or educating faculty on the definition of assessment and the practical aspects of evaluating the performance of trainees across their residency training.
Program for Leading Innovations in Healthcare and Education
Institutional Change Statement
Submit a one page description (entire description is limited to a maximum of 3300 character including spaces) of the challenges and changes in health care education and/or health care delivery which are envisioned for your institution, your role in these changes, and the status of these changes in your institution. Please provide specific examples of these activities in progress or planned for at your institution.
Some examples of change issues are: preparing for and facilitating reform in educational philosophy or format; transforming the current culture of a residency training program; or improving the pedagogical training of faculty in a medical school environment.
“The programs are not only developmental as a person, leader and educator, but they enable you to be bold while realistic, experimental yet persistent, and most of all to envision large change and implement it. The continued support (both of the program faculty and new colleagues) through friendship, advice and support is a critical piece of this as well.”
Joan A. Friedland, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Chief of Medical Care Line, VAMC, Houston, TX; Associate Professor in Department of Medicine & Center of Ethics and Health Care Policy and Chair of Committee for Education Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
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