Custom Programs

Education built around your goals

 

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Customized to Fit Your Needs

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Learning That Delivers

From expert-led sessions and case discussions to simulations, project work, site visits, and capstones, we combine innovative teaching methods with real-world application to create high-impact learning experiences.

Designed for How You Learn

Programs can be delivered online, in person, or in blended formats—at Harvard Medical School in Boston, at your location, or anywhere in the world.

Expertise That Matters

Drawing on expertise across science, clinical research, drug discovery, novel therapies, health care delivery, AI and enabling technologies, and health policy, we bring the right Harvard and Harvard-affiliated experts together to address your most important priorities.

Building Your Custom Program

Every organization is unique, with its own goals, challenges, and opportunities. That’s why we tailor custom programs to meet the specific needs of your organization—from building knowledge and capabilities across a team to addressing critical business challenges and supporting organization-wide transformation.

Our program directors and dedicated program management and delivery teams work with you to design and deliver truly unique learning experiences, drawing on access to more than 12,000 Harvard Medical School–related faculty, the broader Harvard faculty ecosystem, and leading industry experts. Together, we bring the right expertise to every program, creating experiences that engage people, strengthen capabilities, and drive meaningful change.

Five-Step Process for Custom Programs

Five Step Process for Custom Programs
  1. Needs Assessment: We will interview key stakeholders and work closely with you to lul1y understand your organization, culture, people, and learning needs.
  2. Program Design: Collaborating closely with you, we will finalize program business and learning objectives and create the high-level program architecture.
  3. Program Development: We will create the day-to-day session design, including faculty selection, learning methods, curriculum, experiential learning, case studies, and tools.
  4. Program Delivery: We will work closely with participants and all key stakeholders to launch, manage, and deliver a world-class learning experience for your leaders.
  5. Follow Up and Measurement: We will execute the agreed-upon program measurement techniques to measure satisfaction and impact. we encourage follow-up reinforcement and can work with you to design and deliver follow-up interventions

Frequently Asked Questions

Custom programs are tailored executive and postgraduate education experiences that Harvard Medical School designs specifically for a single organization. Rather than joining an existing course, your team works with HMS to build a program around your organization's own goals, culture, and challenges.

Custom programs are built for business leaders, science leaders, and health care organizations looking to address a specific strategic challenge or capability gap. Past partners have included medical systems, life sciences companies, government agencies, and academic institutions.

Custom programs can cover clinical research, clinical care delivery, enabling technologies like AI, and health care policy, among other areas. Because each program is built from scratch, the topic and depth are matched to your organization's priorities.

Custom programs can be delivered in person, online, or in a blended format that combines both. They can take place virtually, at locations around the world, or on the Harvard Medical School campus in Boston.

HMS follows a five-step process: needs assessment, program design, program development, program delivery, and follow-up and measurement. This process starts with understanding your organization's people and goals, then moves through curriculum design and delivery, and ends with measuring impact and supporting follow-up learning.

Yes. Leadership development is a foundational element of most custom programs, helping participants build the skills to lead in complex environments, work across teams, and drive change within their organizations.

Group enrollment places your team into one of HMS's existing postgraduate certificate or continuing education programs alongside other learners. A custom program is built exclusively for your organization, with content, format, and objectives designed around your specific needs.

Contact the HMS Office for External Education team to begin a needs assessment. From there, HMS will work with your stakeholders to design a program tailored to your organization's objectives. Contact our Team

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