Highlighted Workforce Development and Training Programs Across the Partners HealthCare System

The following workforce development programs are some of the many offered across the Partners HealthCare system.

• The Partners Online College Preparation Program (OCPP),uses multimedia presentations and a simulated online classroom to help employees to learn about and prepare for online classes. 
• Partners offers U.S. Citizenship Classes, a free five-week program to assist employees and their families or friends in attaining U.S. citizenship.
• Learn or brush up on your medical terminology skills in a 12-week, online, 3-credit class through Quinsigamond Community College.  Eligible employees will receive tuition and coaching support.

• The English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program focuses on career development tools such as communicating with supervisors, interacting with patients, co-workers, and physicians; English and vocabulary; problem solving and much more. Many Partners affiliates operate their own ESOL programs. Find more information on offerings at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.
• Partners HealthCare System is currently collaborating with College for America, a subsidiary of Southern New Hampshire University, to offer several innovative, online, competency-based Certificate, Associate (“AA”) and  Baccalaureate (“BA”) programs designed to increase access to higher education for working adults. Earn your degree from Southern New Hampshire University, a well-respected, fully accredited, non-profit institution that has been delivering high quality educational programs for over eighty two (82) years. Please visit our website to find more information about this program: Partners and College for America

Learn more about other Workforce Development and Training opportunities at Partners HealthCare and our affiliates:

Partners HealthCare:

• Employee Services
• Training Opportunities and Resources (link available only to people within the Partners network)
• Information Systems Training/Computer Classes (all affiliates, link available only to people within the Partners network)

Brigham and Women's Hospital: 

• Workforce Development Offerings
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Youth Programs, including the Mayor summer jobs program for high school students
• ESOL Classes (link available only to people within the Partners network)

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital:

• Employee Resource and Education Guide (link available only to people within the Partners network)

Massachusetts General Hospital:

• Training and Workforce Development (link available only to people within the Partners network)
• Training and Workforce Development  (public) 
• Youth Programs

McLean Hospital:

• Employee Development (link available only to people within the Partners network)

Newton-Wellesley Hospital:

• Education and Training (link available only to people within the Partners network)
• Training and Workforce Development

Spaulding Rehabilitation Network:

• Create a Nurse program