Dr. William Taylor, Associate Professor, became program director of the BWH/HVMA general medicine residency program in 2006 after directing the prevention/clinical epidemiology component since the program's inception almost 20 years ago. Dr. Taylor has practiced primary care medicine for three decades, and has served as Associate Master of the William B. Castle Society at HMS since 1997.
Dr. Taylor earned his B.A. from Yale, and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his post-graduate training in Medicine at Boston City Hospital as a member of the Primary Care Graduate Training Program. As part of the core faculty that developed Harvard's New Pathway Program in 1985, Dr. Taylor had primary responsibility for the integration of prevention into the medical school curriculum. He later served in numerous teaching roles at HMS, including developer and initial director of the required course in Clinical Epidemiology, acting course director for Preventive Medicine and Nutrition, and senior fellow for Patient-Doctor I. Since 2001, he has served as course director for Patient-Doctor II, the physical diagnosis course at HMS. He has been an associate firm chief, preceptor for primary care residents, inpatient attending physician, and teacher of third-year students in office practice at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and now attends on the inpatient medical service at Brigham and Women's Hospital as well. He co-directs the Fellow-as-Educator program in Harvard's general medicine and general pediatrics fellowship programs. Since 1981 he has been associate director of HMS's continuing medical education course in "Primary Care Internal Medicine: Principles and Practice."
Dr. Taylor has served on the Internal Medicine Certifying Examination Writing Committee of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has been a Kellogg National Fellow and a Rabkin Fellow in Medical Education at the Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at BIDMC, and served as an associate editor of Journal Watch. He earned the "Humanism in Medicine" award from HMS, served as Harvard's LCME faculty fellow for medical school accreditation, and was a finalist for the Massachusetts "Compassionate Caregiver" award from the Schwartz Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Taylor has published papers on medical education, clinical epidemiology, medical interviewing, patient-doctor relationship, decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, tuberculosis prevention, cancer screening, and cholesterol reduction. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Preventive Medicine.
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