Why Study at IHP

With MGH Institute, you get it all: innovative teaching, unparalleled access to leading academic medical centers and health care sites across New England and beyond, and an active-learning curriculum create an engaging learning environment that equips nursing students to provide exemplary patient care, recognize and attend to the needs of their patients.

The Institute operates within Partners HealthCare, founded by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and includes Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and North Shore Medical Center. These affiliations offer students unparalleled opportunities to learn and work alongside expert practitioners in a variety of hospital, clinical, and community settings.

An Innovative Learning Environment

Be prepared to spend much of your class time participating in interactive classroom instruction. Through active learning, a highly valued approach to health care education, you’ll learn about collaborating to solve problems to improve patient care and promote quality outcomes. You will strengthen your interprofessional skills in our new clinical care center.

In addition, our high-tech simulation lab mirrors health care environments and enhances your clinical learning. The stateof-the-art lab includes acute-care rooms and a functional living lab along with high- and low-fidelity interactive simulators where you will respond to a wide range of health situations.

The program includes a role immersion experience working one-on-one with a bachelor’s-prepared RN in a clinical setting, participating in clinical seminars and simulations utilizing clinical reasoning and teamwork. This role immersion is an excellent opportunity to integrate your academic and clinical experiences – and to prepare you to enter the nursing workforce.