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• Teaching future medical leaders – continuing the MGH legacy
  Medical education has long been a cornerstone of the MGH mission – educating future leaders in the health care profession while providing the highest quality patient care and advancing breakthrough research.

• Doctors teaching doctors: A day in the life of a resident
  It's 6 am, and while the streets of Boston are just coming to life, Cynthia Cooper, MD, a second-year, or junior, resident, has already started her day.

• Teaching the best of the best – a profile of a beloved teacher
  Framed photographs adorn the office of Charles McCabe, MD, associate chief of Emergency Medicine at the MGH. Many of them are of his wife and daughter, but most are of his students, past and present – proud mementos of more than 25 years of training future physicians.

• First-year medical students see surgery fist-hand
  Cardiac surgery is performed all the time at the MGH and at hospitals across the country. Every winter, special guests come to the MGH to observe first-hand how cardiac surgical patients are cared for by a team of anesthesiologists, nurses and surgeons.

• Medical careers in the making – providing support for new house staff
  Starting any new job can be both exciting and anxiety-filled, but for new residents and fellows at the MGH, the experience can be overwhelming. Not only are they starting new jobs, but for most this is their first experience as a medical doctor.

• Warm welcome for new minority house staff
  Each summer, James J. Mongan, MD, president of the MGH, hosts a reception to welcome incoming minority house staff. The event is a part of the hospital's commitment to support new physicians of color who begin their careers at the MGH.

• Patient Care Services – Continuing education and professional development
  When Jeanette Ives Erickson, RN, MS, senior vice president for Patient Care Services and chief nurse, took her position in October 1996, she set out to learn as much as she could about the professional needs of clinicians in Patient Care Services (PCS).

• Training top administrators – the MGH Administrative Fellowship
  The MGH's medical staff went through vigorous training and rotations among medical departments to learn the profession before they became full-time doctors. Many of the hospital's and the country's – top administrative leaders learned their role in a similar manner, through the MGH Administrative Fellowship Program.

• The Institute, where world-class education meets real-world health care
  In 1811, the MGH was chartered as a teaching hospital with a commitment to patient care, education and research. This legacy continues with the founding of the MGH Institute of Health Professions in 1977.

• MGH Dietetic internship – one of the oldest in the country
  Linda Cashman is one of dozen dietetic inters under guidance of registered dietitians and Food Service managers, as part of the MGH's 12-month dietetic internship. The internship, which started in 1909, is one of the oldest in the United States and has become one of the most competitive in the field of dietetics.

• A commitment to teaching patients
  When a patient is diagnosed with a disease, he or she may have hundreds of questions. The Maxwell and Eleanor Blum Patient and Family Learning Center at the MGH is where many answers can be found.

• Breaking the language barriers – teaching English and Spanish
  The MGH is aware that many employees at the hospital want to learn and sometimes need to learn a second language for their jobs. The MGH has created two programs to address this need – one in English and the other in Spanish.

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