The HILT website compiles teaching and learning resources across the University. Search for Resources allows you to browse those resources pertaining to a specific role or enter a search term in the search bar. In this context, “teaching and learning resource” includes a broad range of offerings—from profiles featuring effective practices to grant-funded projects to larger initiatives and organizations.
| Title | Institutional Home ? | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| LGBT and Allies at Harvard Medical School (LAHMS) | HMS H | LAHMS is the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and allies student organization at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine. |
| Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) | HMS H | Our mission is: 1) To provide a unified voice for Latinos and other underrepresented medical students 2) To actively promote recruitment and retention of Latino students at all levels of our career 3) To educate medical students on Latino health issues 4) To advocate for the Latino community and their health 5) To provide leadership opportunities for Latinos 6) To promote volunteerism in the Latino community. |
| Student National Medical Association (SNMA) | HMS H | Student National Medical Association (SNMA) is committed to supporting current and future underrepresented minority medical students, addressing the needs of underserved communities, and increasing the number of clinically excellent, culturally competent and socially conscious physicians. |
| Association of Women Surgeons | HMS H | Our group’s goals include professional development and facilitating connections between medical students and female surgeons at all levels of training. Our activities mostly center around hosting seminars at which female surgeons from a wide range of specialties speak to current medical students interested in surgery about their experiences and take questions. We also organize a mentorship program to connect medical students with female surgeons. |
| Native American Health Organization (NAHO) | HMS H | The Native American Health Organization hopes to establish a foundation for unity among students interested in Native American Health issues and culture. Through a variety of special programs, NAHO seeks to improve the health status of indigenous people of North America by encouraging and recruiting indigenous students into medicine and increasing the awareness of indigenous heritage and health care issues. |
| Civil-Military Collaborative | HMS H | The HMS Civilian-Military Collaborative creates a network of engaged professionals seeking to develop, support, and mobilize expertise in the overlapping and transferable domains of the civilian and military medical sectors, including Trauma Care, Operations Management, Humanitarian and Disaster Response, and Leader Development. Key tasks: -Improve medical education and healthcare operations using military lessons learned -Improve military medicine through open collaboration with HMS students, faculty and system resources -Leverage the network to identify guest speakers for civilian-military topics influencing medicine |
| HMS Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) | HMS H | The Arts and Humanities Initiative aims to foster creativity and scholarship in the arts and medical humanities at Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals, to support a community of faculty and students engaged and interested in the arts and humanities, and to enhance patient care through reflection and compassion. |
| Racial Justice Coalition | HMS H | The Racial Justice Coalition is a group of students taking action to promote diversity and equity at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine with an emphasis on admissions/recruitment, curricular reform, and representative leadership. |
| Harvard Student Human Rights Collaborative | HMS H | The Harvard Student Human Rights Collaborative (HSHRC) is a group of medical students dedicated to addressing human rights issues in our local community and beyond. We provide a student-run clinic that provides forensic medical evaluations to survivors seeking asylum in the United States, as well as raise awareness about human rights through hosting talks, our newsletter, and articles that our members publish in the media. |
| John Warren Surgical Society | HMS H | The John Warren Surgical Society (JWSS) at Harvard Medical School was created to foster interest in the various fields of surgery among Harvard medical and dental students. As an all-encompassing surgical society, JWSS aims to provide resources in every surgical specialty and encourages students to explore these specialties through various events and programs throughout the four years of medical and dental school. Since its inception, the JWSS has provided resources to hundreds of medical and dental students who have gone on to match in residency. Although our society has changed throughout the years, our values continue to inspire us to fulfill three goals: 1) Promote interest in surgical specialties among HMS/HSDM students 2) Integrate HMS/HSDM students into the broader community of Surgeons throughout Boston 3) Prepare HMS/HSDM students to apply to residencies in surgical specialties |