The Harvard MGH Medicine-Pediatrics Program began 18 years ago as the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Med-Peds Residency in 1989. In 1995, the original MGH med-peds program merged with the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Children's Hospital Boston (CHB) Med-Peds Residency in 1994. to become the Harvard Combined Med-Peds Program (HCMP), encompassing all four core programs.
By 2007, the HCMP had produced 87 graduates who went on to diverse careers including primary care, global health, cardiology, infectious disease, sports medicine, hematology/oncology, endocrinology, developmental pediatrics, pulmonary/critical care, rheumatology, hospitalist work, public health, bio-pharmaceutical industry, hospital administration and academic medicine. The HCMP produced several categorical chief residents, residency program directors, medical directors, bio-tech executives, global relief experts, and a television medical news correspondent. HCMP graduates have impacted the lives of patients and communities in the inner cities of Boston, the slums of Bolivia, the mountains of Peru, the TB-affected areas of Haiti, the HIV-affected areas of Rwanda, war-torn Sudan and Burma, tsunami-devastated Banda Aceh, and underserved Indian Health Service regions in the US.
A new era
In 2006, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) adopted a set of guidelines in anticipation of formal accreditation of all med-peds residencies. These new rules meant that all 89 med-peds programs in the United States would have to undergo a new accreditation process, lasting into the 2006-2007 recruitment season. These rules also mandated that the HCMP would no longer be allowed to have four core sponsoring programs, but would instead have to divide into two programs.
Thus, beginning in 2007, a new era in med-peds training in Boston began, with the separate accreditation of two med-peds programs: The Harvard MGH Med-Peds Residency, and the Harvard BWH/CHB Med-Peds Residency. Both programs pledged to carry the rich heritage of the Harvard Combined Med-Peds Program forward, as they continue in a spirit of collaboration and growth, through an informal association, now called the Harvard Associated Medicine-Pediatrics Programs (HAMP).
The goal of the Harvard MGH Program is to afford outstanding clinical training in both internal medicine and pediatrics, while opening doors to research opportunities, academic and personal growth, community service, and unique career networking and connections.
We expect our residents to excel clinically. Every intern is expected to have rotated through essentially the same core experiences, in preparation for more supervisory roles in the second and third years of residency. Similarly, second and third year "Junior Residents" rotate through experiences that will enable them to act as senior consultants during their fourth year. It is the goal of the Med-Peds Curriculum Committees, composed of current residents and faculty, that all Med-Peds residents are afforded equivalent -- if not identical -- rotations at roughly the same point in their training.
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