Courses

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Fall 2024 --  IAP/Winter 2024 --  Spring 2024

IAP/Winter 2025 and Spring 2025 schedules will be published in December 2024, links below go to descriptions only (see the additional links on this page for HST preclinical course schedule pdfs from HST@HMS)

Fall 2024

• HT 007 GPS: Growth of the Physician Scientist (restricted to 1st year MD students, registration through HMS only, August-June)
• HST.010/HST.011 Human Functional Anatomy
• HST.030/HST.031 Human Pathology
• HST.040/HST.041 Microbial Pathogenesis
• HST.070/HST.071 Human Reproductive Biology
• HST.120/HST.121 Gastroenterology
• HST.130/HST.131 Neuroscience
• HST.146/HST.147 Biochemistry and Metabolism
• HST.160/HST.161 Genetics in Modern Medicine
• HST.162/HST.163 Molecular Diagnostics and Bioinformatics
• HST.175/HST.176 Cellular and Molecular Immunology
• HST.196 Teaching Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.198 Independent Study in Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.199 Research in Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.202 Introduction to Clinical Medicine and Medical Engineering II (eligible students will be notified about registration)
• HST.240 Translational Medicine Preceptorship
• [HST.420J Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology - not offered regularly]
• HST.452 Statistical Physics in Biology
• HST.504 Topics in Computational Molecular Biology
• HST.507J Advanced Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution
• [HST.508 Evolutionary and Quantitative Genomics - not offered Fall 2024]
• HST.518J Human Systems Engineering
• [HST.522J Biomaterials: Tissue Interactions - not offered regularly]
• [HST.523J Cell-Matrix Mechanics - not offered regularly]
• HST.525J Tumor Microenvironment and Immuno-Oncology: A Systems Biology Approach 
• HST.535J Tissue Engineering and Organ Regeneration
• [HST.540J Human Physiology - not offered Fall 2024]
• HST.542J Quantitative and Clinical Physiology
• [HST.560J Radiation Biophysics - not offered Fall 2024]
• [HST.565 Medical Imaging Sciences and Applications - not offered regularly]
• [HST.580J Data Acquisition and Image Reconstruction in MRI - not offered Fall 2024]
• HST.583J Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Data Acquisition and Analysis
• HST.590 Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series (Fall 2024 topic: TBA)
• HST.599 Research in Health Sciences and Technology
• [HST.716J Signal Processing by the Auditory System: Perception - not offered regularly]
• HST.920J Principles and Practice of Drug Development
• HST.953 Collaborative Data Science in Medicine
• HST.974 Innovating for Mission Impact in Medicine and Healthcare
• HST.999 Practical Experience in Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.THG Graduate Thesis
• HST.UR Undergraduate Research in Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.URG Undergraduate Research in Health Sciences and Technology

IAP/Winter 2024

• HST.150/HST.151 Principles of Pharmacology * (continues in Spring)
• HST.164/HST.165 Principles of Biomedical Imaging *
• HST.192 Medical Decision Analysis and Probabilistic Medical Inference *
• HST.194/HST.195 Clinical Epidemiology * (continues in Spring)
• HST.200 Introduction to Clinical Medicine (continues in Spring)
• HST.202 Introduction to Clinical Medicine and Medical Engineering II (eligible students will be notified about registration)
• HST.434 Evolution of an Epidemic
• HST.980 Emerging Problems in Infectious Diseases

Spring 2024

• HST.020/HST.021 Musculoskeletal Pathophysiology *
• HST.034/HST.035 Pathology of Human Disease - please register for this course under HBTM 200 (Harvard), the MIT listing is being removed.
• HST.060/HST.061 Endocrinology *
• HST.080/HST.081 Hematology *
• HST.090/HST.091 Cardiovascular Pathophysiology *
• HST.100/HST.101 Respiratory Pathophysiology *
• HST.110/HST.111 Renal Pathophysiology *
• HST.150/HST.151 Principles of Pharmacology *  (starts in IAP/Winter)
• HST.194/HST.195 Clinical Epidemiology *  (starts in IAP/Winter)
• HST.196 Teaching Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.198 Independent Study in Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.199 Research in Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.200 Introduction to Clinical Medicine * (starts in IAP/Winter)
• HST.202 Introduction to Clinical Medicine and Medical Engineering II (eligible students will be notified about registration)
• HST.207 Introduction to Clinical Medicine and Medical Engineering (eligible students will be notified about registration)
• HST.220 Introduction to the Care of Patients * (restricted to MD students only - students must attend one pre-assigned virtual session in January)
• HST.240 Translational Medicine Preceptorship
• [HST.431J Infections and Inequalities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Health - not offered regularly]
• [HST.438J | HST.439J Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity - not offered regularly]
• [HST.450J Biological Physics - not offered regularly]
• HST.460J Statistics for Neuroscience Research
• HST.482J Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
• HST.500 Frontiers in (Bio)Medical Engineering and Physics
• HST.506J Computational Systems Biology: Deep Learning in the Life Sciences
• HST.515J  Aerospace Biomedical and Life Support Engineering
• HST.524J Design of Medical Devices and Implants
• [HST.526J Future Medicine: Drug Delivery, Therapeutics, and Diagnostics - not offered regularly]
• HST.531 Medical Physics of Proton Radiation Therapy
• [HST.533 Medical Imaging in Radiation Therapy - not offered Spring 2024]
• HST.537J Fluids and Diseases
• HST.538J Genomics and Evolution of Infectious Disease
• HST.539J Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Science in Human Health and Disease
• [HST.541J Cellular Neurophysiology and Computing - not offered Spring 2024]
• HST.542J Quantitative and Clinical Physiology
• HST.552J Medical Device Design
• HST.562J Pioneering Technologies for Interrogating Complex Biological Systems
• [HST.563 Imaging Biophysics and Clinical Applications - not offered regularly]
• [HST.576J Topics in Neural Signal Processing - not offered Spring 2024]
• HST.582J Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
• [HST.584J Magnetic Resonance Analytic, Biochemical, and Imaging Techniques - not offered Spring 2024]
• HST.590 Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series (Spring 2024 topic: "The Economics of the US Healthcare System")
• HST.599 Research in Health Sciences and Technology
• HT 700 Psychopathology and Introduction to Clinical Psychiatry (restricted to MD students, registration through HMS only)
• HST.723J Audition: Neural Mechanisms, Perception and Cognition
• HST.728J Automatic Speech Recognition
• [HST.916J Case Studies and Strategies in Drug Discovery and Development - not offered regularly]
• HST.918J Economics of Health Care Industries (1^st half of term)
• [HST.936/HST.937/HST.938 Global Health Informatics to Improve Quality of Care - not offered Spring 2024]
• [HST.940J Bioinformatics: Principles, Methods and Applications - not offered regularly] 
• HST.956J Machine Learning for Healthcare
• HST.962 Medical Product Development and Translational Biomedical Research - 2^nd half of term (Course Site via MITx).  Registered students must also "enroll" on the MITx site to access course materials and lectures.
• HST.971J Strategic Decision Making in the Life Sciences
• [HST.972J Medicine for Managers and Entrepreneurs Proseminar - not offered regularly]
• HST.974 Innovating for Mission Impact in Medicine and Healthcare (restricted to MIT Catalyst Fellows)
• HST.978J Healthcare Ventures
• HST.999 Practical Experience in Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.S99 Special Subject: Biomedical Entrepreneurship - Topic:Tech2market
• HST.THG Graduate Thesis
• HST.UR Undergraduate Research in Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.URG Undergraduate Research in Health Sciences and Technology

Summer 2024 

• HST.015 MATLAB for Medicine
• HST.190/HST.191 Introduction to Biostatistics
• HST.201 Introduction to Clinical Medicine and Medical Engineering I
• HST.202 Introduction to Clinical Medicine and Medical Engineering II
• HST.599 Research in Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.999 Practical Experience in Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.THG Graduate Thesis
• HST.UR Undergraduate Research in Health Sciences and Technology
• HST.URG Undergraduate Research in Health Sciences and Technology