About Education

Massachusetts General Hospital is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.

Mass General is also the founder of the MGH Institute of Health Professions, an interprofessional graduate school of health sciences. Mass General’s constant desire to acquire, apply, and challenge knowledge and innovation is woven into the strong culture of lifelong learning, and is one reason why Mass General has consistently ranked as one of the top hospitals in the nation. Learners benefit from rigorous, top-notch training and faculty expertise, staff benefit from challenging one another to strive for excellence, and most importantly, patients benefit from the culture of excellence and world class education their healthcare providers receive.

Our Mission

Guided by the needs of our patients and their families, we aim to deliver the very best health care in a safe, compassionate environment; to advance that care through innovative research and education; and, to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

Teaching and education have been at the core of Mass General’s mission since its founding more than 200 years ago. The teaching mission aims to educate the next generation of healthcare professionals and ensure that the current health care workforce has the knowledge necessary to advance patient care. The profound impact of the hospital’s teaching mission can be seen in the care provided by our thousands of trainees, staff and alumni across the globe, and stretches even further when those exceptional caregivers work with and teach others.

Facts at a Glance

• 2,000+ learners who undergo simulation training supported by the MGH Learning Laboratory each year
• 600 Harvard medical students on rotation at MGH each year
• >80 training relationships with schools and universities
• >2,800 nursing and health professional students on rotation at MGH each year
• >200 residency and fellowship programs supported in 2023
• >1,500 physician trainees each year (residents and fellows)
• 1,600 students enrolled at the MGH Institute of Health Professions each year
• 10,000+ MGH clinical staff who require continuing professional development

Peter L. Slavin, MD Academy for Applied Learning in Health Care

The Executive Committee on Teaching and Education (ECOTE) at Mass General has historically served as the hospital’s central planning and policy-making body for education. As part of a comprehensive strategic planning process over the last decade, ECOTE leadership laid the foundation to create the Peter L. Slavin, MD Academy for Applied Learning in Health Care as an integrated organizational hub to support educational priorities, including:

• Promoting the educational mission
• Sustaining educational impact
• Invigorating the educational community
• Transforming the learner experience
• Evaluating educational effectiveness

Founded in 2022, with a transformational gift from the Lunder Foundation of Portland, ME, the Slavin Academy is leading a bold new initiative to harness the power of education and training across the health professions to transform health care and ensure the highest quality care for every patient. With a dedicated new space adjacent to the Ether Dome in the hospital’s historic Bulfinch Building, the Slavin Academy’s work is guided by four inaugural committees to support strategic education priorities: educational scholarship, teaching and training, learning innovation, and education resources and community affairs. Renovation of just over 7,500 square feet to house the Slavin Academy was completed in fall 2024.

Learn more about the Slavin Academy

Learning Laboratory and the Lunder Learning Hospital

The Learning Laboratory at Mass General was created in 2009 to support clinical simulation as a quality and safety tool across the hospital. Recognizing the importance of routine practice for expert performance, the Learning Lab serves as the central institutional resource to support evidence-based deliberate practice training and research for essential health care skills, including teamwork & communication, critical thinking & decision making, and procedural, protocol, and process skills.

The Learning Laboratory was founded in collaboration with the historic Treadwell Library, which once occupied the very same footprint in Bartlett Hall. With approximately 70 course offerings (see detailed listing in the online Education Inventory), the 4,000-square-foot Learning Laboratory has the capacity to support approximately 2,000 learners a year. Recognizing that our collective training needs extend across a 10,000+ clinical provider base, the Lunder Learning Hospital was conceived as a 20,000-square-foot training facility to expand systemwide learning opportunities for an entire workforce. The Learning Lab will support planning for the Learning Hospital—named for the Lunder Family as part of their remarkable gift—as a multi-unit training facility that can accommodate several teams working together across a fully integrated care system. It will include, for example, a replica of an emergency department and clinic, an operating room and a labor and delivery suite, and an inpatient ward and intensive care unit. The Lunder Learning Hospital will be incorporated into the existing hospital campus as the state-of-the-art Phillip and Susan Ragon Building becomes operational.