High-Impact, Evidence-Based Education for Health Care Professionals
To successfully train the next generation of health care professionals, medical educators must utilize innovative teaching strategies and techniques in both classroom and clinical settings. Training to Teach in Medicine is a six-month online certificate program taught by distinguished Harvard Medical School faculty for clinician-educators, instructors, and faculty from across the globe. This contemporary program integrates traditional and novel pedagogic methods, skills-based training, two live virtual workshops, online learning modules, individual and team projects, as well as a final capstone project to benefit your home institution.
Training to Teach in Medicine aims to develop skilled clinical educators who can apply educational theories and teaching best practices to instruct medical students and physicians-in-training, in turn equipping the future medical workforce for career success. Participants will graduate from the program with the skills, strategies, and techniques required to educate medical students and adult learners in a variety of settings.
Upon program completion, participants will:
- Master evidence-based justifications for critical clinical education skill sets. Through the study of educational theories, scholars will leave the program with a framework to educate medical learners in practice
- Learn and apply practical teaching skills to diverse groups of adult learners in bedside, ambulatory, classroom, and other settings
- Accelerate leadership and professional development in medical education pedagogies and teaching techniques
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Program Format
This program has two required live online workshops. In between each workshop, participants should expect to spend an average of 7-10 hours per week on other coursework, which can include live webinars, pre-recorded lectures, readings, team work, or capstone related assignments.
Live Virtual Workshop Dates
Workshop 1: November 6–8, 2025 | Live Virtual
Workshop 2: June 4–June 7, 2026 | Live Virtual
Program Objectives
Drawing from best practices across Harvard Medical School’s education curriculum and evidence-based methodologies, this program offers you the opportunity to:
- Gain the skill sets, techniques, and strategies to design a highly engaging, interactive educational curriculum for your home institution
- Understand the process of adult learning and how it should impact medical education
- Master small group teaching and case-based collaborative learning
- Apply the principles of curriculum development to classroom, clinical, and remote-learning settings
- Recognize and implement the necessary elements for successful curriculum reform
- Integrate simulation and modern technology to enhance teaching and learning
- Become a more effective and committed advisor who knows how to guide and inspire others
- Develop a network of like-minded clinical educators from around the world
- Optimize evaluations and assessments and provide more productive feedback
- Apply the core ethical principles of medical education research to classroom and clinical teaching
- Understand underlying theory from a conceptual perspective, incorporating learning sciences and other justifications for the content
Accreditation 2025
In support of improving patient care, Harvard Medical School is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Accreditation information for the 2026 course is not yet available.
Physicians
The Harvard Medical School designates this Online Enduring for a maximum of 14.75AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
