This HST eLearning portal offers technology-enabled educational materials to the global academic community. These innovative materials include full courses, course modules, and other educational resources. Some of these materials are used in formal HST courses; others have been developed for the continuing education of biomedical scientists, engineers, and physicians. HST faculty and staff have developed these materials as a result of their participation in a variety of initiatives. We invite you to explore this site and use these materials.

Through examples, case studies and interactive exercises, this course provides a detailed overview of The Four Laws of Probability; Probability Distributions; Hypothesis testing; Statistical Sampling; and Linear Regression Analysis and how they apply to the work of the clinical researcher.

This course provides a detailed overview of clinical pharmacology and drug development and covers such topics as: Drug Interactions and Pharmacogenetics; Biomarkers and Experimental Methods; Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Modeling; The Regulatory Environment; Phases of Clinical Development and Approaches to Clinical Trials; and Pharmaco-Epidemiology.  This course was presented by faculty from Harvard Medical School, Merck & Co., and Pfizer Inc, January 16-19, 2006 as partial fulfillment of course requirements for the HST Clinical Investigator Training Program (CITP).

This course is an extensive guide to the understanding and management of invasive fungal infections. Intended for healthcare professionals engaged in the management of fungal disease, this course features video lectures by a distinguished international faculty and provocative, interactive case studies.

This course is an extensive guide to planning, implementing and conducting ethical clinical research. Intended for healthcare professionals engaged in clinical research, this course features video lectures by a distinguished faculty and interactive exercises.

This course is an extensive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of Transplant Infectious Disease. Intended for healthcare professionals engaged in the management of organ transplantation and infectious disease, this course features closed-captioned video lectures by a distinguished international faculty, interactive case studies, and an extensive library with a topic index.

This course is an extensive guide on Drug Development Study Design and features the 3-day lecture series given each year to the Fellows of the HST Clinical Investigators Training Program. This in-depth series of lectures covers the following key topics: the Drug Development Process; Clinical Trial Objectives, Designs, and Classifications; and Analysis and Interpretation.

Developed for the course Quantitative Physiology: Cells and Tissues, students from various backgrounds learn about diffusion phenomena at the cellular and subcellular levels using a pre-lab exercise, followed by a microfluidics project lab. Laboratory experiments in microfluidics are carried out using custom hardware and software tools.

This profile describes a module that helps engineering students learn to analyze and interpret the frequency content of biomedical signals. The pedagogical strategies are based on "How People Learn" (HPL) [What's this?]. Activities include classroom exercises, a MATLAB® project, and an interactive simulation accompanied by an on-line tutorial.

This profile describes a module that uses glomerular filtration as a model system to help engineering and medical students increase their understanding of fluid and solute movement across capillaries. The pedagogical strategies are based on "How People Learn" (HPL) [What's this?]. The course module consists of printable course materials and an interactive simulation accompanied by an on-line tutorial.

Materials from a variety of HST courses, including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, and media presentations are available in this open educational resource made available through the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. This link takes you directly to the OpenCourseWare page listing available HST courses.

The HST Center of Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutics provides a dual opportunity in education and research for MD and PhD students and Fellows in pharmacology and therapeutics to explore experimental therapies and technologies as they apply to human physiology, disease, and the management of disease.

The VaNTH consortium (including Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Texas, and Harvard-MIT through HST) is an established NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Bioengineering Educational Technologies. VaNTH brings together engineers, learning scientists, learning technologists, and assessment and evaluation specialists to develop innovative and technology-driven curricular materials.

An alliance between MIT and Microsoft Research, iCampus strives to enhance university education through information technology, supporting transformation of academic programs through educational technology.

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