Brigham and Women's Hospital (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard)

History

Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is an international leader in virtually every area of medicine and has been the site of pioneering breakthroughs that have improved lives around the world. A major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, BWH has a legacy of excellence that continues to grow year after year. Brigham and Women’s Health Care – the parent corporation for Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital and the Brigham and Women’s Physician Organization – includes 150 outpatient practices with over 1,200 physicians. It serves patients from New England, throughout the United States, and from 120 countries around the world.

BWH is an internationally-known referral center for the most complex cases in nearly all areas of medicine. In fact, US News and World Report consistently ranks us among the nation’s top ten hospitals and in the top ten for specific specialty areas that in 2015 include cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, and rheumatology.

The BWH name is a reflection of our history. In 1980 three of Boston’s oldest and most prestigious Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals - the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, and the Boston Hospital for Women – merged to form Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

As a national leader in improving health care quality and safety, we have helped to develop some of the industry’s best practices including computerized physician order entry (CPOE) to prevent medication errors. The CPOE is now a nationally-accepted safety practice.

The BWH Research Institute (BRI) is one of the most powerful biomedical research institutes in the world and the second largest recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding among independent hospitals in the United States. With over $640 million in total research funding and over 1,000 principal investigators, BWH has long had great success in research as measured by the number of important discoveries made, the size and scope of its research portfolio and the volume of publications annually.

BWH is a training ground for physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals. It has 1,100 trainees in over 140 of the most sought after training programs in the world, and also host Harvard Medical School students in rotations throughout our programs. As its global health services expand, its clinical trainees have rich opportunities to contribute and learn in challenging environments around the world.

Leadership

Department Chair: Ron Walls, MD
Program Director: Eric Nadel, MD
Associate/Assistant Program Director: Kriti Bhatia, MD
Associate/Assistant Program Director: James Kimo Takayesu, MD
Associate/Assistant Program Director: Christian Arbelaez
Associate/Assistant Program Director: David Peak
Research Director:

Training Locations

Primary Hospital

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Secondary Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital

Curriculum

PGY1

MGH ED 8 wks
BWH ED 8 wks
BWH Med 4 wks
MGH PICU 4 wks
BWH Anesthesia 2 wks
CHB ED 4 wks
BWH OB 4 wks
MGH MICU 4 wks
BWH Surg 4 wks
MAB ED 4 wks
Vaca 4 wks
EMS 1 wk
Ultrasound 1 wk

PGY2

BWH SICU - 4 wks
CHI ED - 4wks
BWH ED - 12 wks
MGH ED - 8 wks
MAB ED - 4 wks
MGH Orth - 4 wks
MGH Cardiac SDU - 4 wks
MGH Trauma Surg - 4 wks
Ultrasound - 2 wks
Elective - 2 wks
Vacation - 4 wks

PGY3

MGH ED - 16 wks
BWH ED - 16 wks
MAB ED - 4 wks
CHI ED - 4 wks
Elective - 8 wks
Vacation - 4 wks

PGY4

ED BWH - 12 wks
ED MGH - 16 wks
BWH Admin - 2 wks
Elective - 8 wks
Teaching - 4 wks
Vacation - 4wks
MEEI Opthalmology/ENT - 2 wks
CHB Toxicology - 4 wks

Electives

Fellowships

Contact Information

Residency Coordinator: Alex Werner, MPH Email: awerner@partners.org Phone: +1 617 732 8070 Fax: +1 617 582 6038

External Links

http://www.brighamandwomens.org/about_bwh/about_us.aspx