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- John Warren, a skilled teacher and surgeon, was instrumental in moving the Medical School to Boston, which was a more convenient location for the faculty to see their private patients as well as those in the dispensaries and military and naval hospitals that were being established in the city.
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The medical school moved from Cambridge to Boston in 1810. The following year, Dr. Warren’s son, John Collins Warren, and James Jackson led efforts to start Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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John Warren, a skilled teacher and surgeon, was instrumental in moving the Medical School to Boston, which was a more convenient location for the faculty to see their private patients as well as those in the dispensaries and military and naval hospitals that were being established in the city.
In the following century, the school moved locations several times due to changing clinical relationships, a function of the fact that Harvard Medical School does not directly own or operate a teaching hospital. [5] . In 1810, the school moved to Boston at what is now downtown Washington Street.
In 1906, the Medical School moved to Longwood Avenue in Boston where the five original marble-faced buildings of the quadrangle are still used for classrooms, research laboratories and administrative offices.
The School’s main quadrangle in Boston houses nearly 200 tenured and tenure-track faculty members in basic and social science departments as well as in classrooms where students spend their first two years of medical school. But teaching and research extend beyond the Quad.
By 1810, the need for Harvard's students to have access to hospital patients and a longer course of lectures and the long commute from Boston by members of the faculty, particularly John Warren, prompted a relocation of the school to White's Buildings at 49 Marlborough [now Washington] Street, in Boston, in a building where John Collins Warren ...
In 1810, the Medical School moved from Cambridge to Boston. The following year, Dr. Warren’s son, John Collins Warren, and James Jackson led efforts to start Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston.