While attending the
American College
of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston last week,
School of Clinical Sciences Head, Professor Eric Morand, accepted an invitation
to visit
Harvard
Medical School (HMS).
Professor Morand met with Jane M Neill,
Associate Dean for Medical Education Administration and Planning, Harvard
University to learn about the HMS medical education precinct.
“These discussions were timely given SCS is planning to develop a
major health care professional education precinct at Monash Medical Centre,” said Professor Morand.
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Professor Morand and
Jane M Neill |
"Harvard recently upgraded their
clinical skills centre and Monash is keen to learn from the best around the
world."
“Monash and Harvard Medical Schools are both research-intensive
environments where most teachers are also hospital clinicians,” added Professor Morand. “Importantly, we share similar values about education and teaching patient-centred
care.”
Professor Morand reported he learned “what Harvard believes they got right, what they would do differently,
and what the future looks like.”
Beyond the discussions about building a
medical education precinct and building on the links between the two
organisations, Professor Morand discovered that Monash's links to Harvard have
a long history.
Foundation Professor of Anatomy at Monash, and
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1977 to 1988, Emeritus Professor Graeme Schofield
was an anatomy instructor at HMS and some of his former students, who are
current HMS staff, remember him fondly as an outstanding teacher.
A Monash University Paediatrics Education and Research
Precinct will be part of the new Monash Children’s Hospital at Clayton thanks
to a recent funding commitment by the University.
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