Harvard Medical School
The Harvard Medical School (HMS), which is a graduate medical school affiliated with Harvard University and situated in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts, is known simply as Harvard. The Harvard Medical School is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States. It has been rated top for research among medical schools by U.S. News & World Report year after year since it was established in 1782. In contrast to the vast majority of other top-tier medical schools, Harvard Medical School does not run in collaboration with a single teaching hospital but rather maintains direct affiliations with a number of other institutions around the Greater Boston Area. Teaching hospitals and research institutes that are affiliated with the university include the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, McLean Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, Judge Baker Children's Center, and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. Other hospitals and institutes that are affiliated with the university include McLean Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
On September 19, 1782, Harvard Medical School was established after President Joseph Willard delivered a report to the President and Fellows of Harvard College detailing his ideas for establishing a medical institution. This led to the school's establishment. John Warren, Aaron Dexter, and Benjamin Waterhouse, who had graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School, were the first members of the faculty of Harvard Medical School. Benjamin Waterhouse was also a physician. After the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, it is the third-oldest medical school in the United States. In fact, it was established in the same year as both of those schools.
The Harvard Hall basement was the original location of the lectures, but later on they were moved to Holden Chapel. Students were exempt from paying tuition but were required to buy tickets to attend five or six classes every day. 1788 was the year that saw the graduation of the first two pupils.
Because Harvard Medical School does not directly own or operate a teaching hospital, the medical school relocated several times over the course of the following century as a result of shifting clinical relationships. This was a consequence of the fact that Harvard Medical School does not have its own teaching hospital. The school relocated to what is now known as downtown Washington Street in Boston around the year 1810. In celebration of a donation made by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts, the institution was relocated to Mason Street in 1816 and given the name Massachusetts Medical College of Harvard University. This was done in order to honour the gift. In 1847, in order to bring the school into closer proximity to Massachusetts General Hospital, it was relocated to Grove Street. The school was moved to its current location in Copley Square in the year 1883. When Charles William Eliot became president of Harvard in 1869, he discovered that the medical school was in the poorest condition of any component of the institution. This was before the medical school moved. In order to lay the groundwork for Harvard Medical School's transformation into one of the most prestigious medical schools in the world, he implemented sweeping changes that included raising the admissions standards, establishing a formal degree programme, and defining HMS as a professional school housed within Harvard University.
The medical school made the relocation to its present home in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in the year 1906. The five original marble-faced buildings that comprised the quadrangle on the Longwood campus are still in operation to this day.