Since every physician needs to know about the health care delivery system, the integrated curriculum at Harvard Medical School requires that students learn about the ins and outs of health care policy as part of their medical training. HCP's Essentials of the Profession is a first-year required course at HMS. In addition to this course, we have recently begun co-sponsoring a course entitled “The Physician as a Leader” for students in other years.
As part of our teaching mission, several HCP faculty members offer courses in health care policy to undergraduates at Harvard. These classes expose students to the basics in the field and set the stage for further study in a broad range of areas, including economics, statistics, and premed studies. HCP faculty also participate in courses at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Courses for Medical Students
Essentials of the Profession: Evidence, Ethics, Policy and Social Medicine
David Grabowski, Ateev Mehrotra, Bruce Landon, Anupam B. Jena
The Physician as a Leader
Erin E. Sullivan, Meghan Dierks, Stan Finkelstein
Courses for Doctoral and Graduate Students
Core Course in Health Policy I
Cross-listed in Kennedy School, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard Chan School
Joseph P. Newhouse, Alan M. Zaslavsky, and Richard Frank
Core Course in Health Policy II
Cross-listed in Kennedy School, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard Chan School
Joseph P. Newhouse, Alan M. Zaslavsky, and Richard Frank
Seminar in Heath Policy I and II
Harvard Chan School
Joseph P. Newhouse
Seminar in Heath Policy II
Harvard Chan School
Joseph P. Newhouse
Research in Health Economics
Cross-listed in Kennedy School and Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Joseph P. Newhouse
Graduate Reading Course: Mental Health Policy
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Thomas G. McGuire, Haiden Huskamp, Colleen Yout
Graduate Reading Course: Evaluative Science and Statistics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Mary Beth Landrum, J. Michael McWilliams
Spring Policy Exercise
Harvard Kennedy School
Sheila Burke, Richard Frank
Introduction to U.S. Health Care Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Sheila Burke, Richard Frank
Research Seminar in Health Policy
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Laura Hatfield and Anupam B. Jena
Econometric Methods for Applied Research II
Cross-listed in Kennedy School and Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Timothy Layton
Courses for Undergraduate Students
Economics of Health Policy
Cross-listed in Kennedy School, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard Chan School
Joseph P. Newhouse
The Quality of Health Care in America
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Ashish Jha, Anupam B. Jena, Christy Colburn and Deborah Whitney
America's $3 Trillion Challenge: Health Care Access and Productivity in the Health Reform Era
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Alan M. Garber
United States Health Policy
Harvard Chan School
John McDonough, Haiden Huskamp