1. Welcome to
UMass!
Applicants for 2017

2. Our vision is bold
The UMMS educational experience will inspire our future physicians to excel in patient care, innovation, discovery, leadership and service.

3. Clinical Problem-Solver Communicator
Our Curriculum reinforces 6 core competencies for your learning and ultimately for your practice…
Clinical Problem-Solver
Communicator
Professional
Scientist
Pt & Community Advocate
Constantly changing and growing, currently in a 5 year review cycle to assess and improve
Person

4. … applying a variety of student-centered principles
Diverse approaches to learning
Integration of clinical & basic sciences (day1)
Simulation & technology to support training
Formative and summative assessment
Credit/No credit grading (foundational yrs)
Encouraging curiosity through coursework

5. Students engage and learn together

6. UMMS Learner-Centered Integrated Curriculum Framework
Foundational Studies
Core Clinical Experiences
Advanced Studies
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Principles of Human Genetics
Building Working Cells & Tissues
Cancer Concepts
Principles of Pharmacology
Development Structure & Function
Doctoring & Clinical Skills
Host Defense & Blood
Infections
Cardiovascular Organ
Integrated Case Exercises T R A N S I O L
Determinants of Health
Organ System Diseases
Brain: Nervous System & Behavior
Doctoring & Clinical Skills
Integrated Case Exercises
Patients
BOARD P RE
&
VACAT I O N T R A N S I O L T R A N S I O L
Required Clinical Experiences
Thematic Sections:
Care of Adults
Perioperative and Maternal Care
Care of Families
Flexible Clinical Experiences
Interstitial Curriculum
Sub-Internships
Advanced Biomedical & Translational Sciences
Emergency Clinical Problem Solver
Capstone Scholarship and Discovery (completion)
Electives
Capstone Experience
Longitudinal Themes
Learning Communities

7. School of Medicine Curriculum at a Glance
7/28/2016

8. The typical week includes 22.5 hours of scheduled time
Credit/No Credit in foundational years curricula

9. Students are an important part of our community
Curriculum
Feedback
Institution
Worcester & the
Commonwealth

10. Opportunities to explore and excel
Optional enrichment electives
Pathways
Research
Curriculum development
Global Health
Community engagement
Interest groups
MD PhD
PURCH

11. OUR EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS: COMMUNIVERSITY
Class of Student Orientation
MPP
OUR EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS: COMMUNIVERSITY
Our new regional campus
UMMS-Baystate Springfield
Our clinical partner UMMHC
UMMMC: three campuses
University, Memorial, Hahnemann
UMMHC member hospitals
Health Alliance, Marlboro, Clinton
First LPP experience
Sites within 60 minutes drive time from the campus
UMMHC
Largest health care system in Central and Western Mass, caring for over a million people.
UMMMC is the advanced tertiary care referral center for our system, located on three campuses here in Worcester with a total of 761 BEDS.
This University hospital shares our campus.
Memorial Hospital, up the road on Belmont street
And the Hahnemann campus nearby on Lincoln street.
Other member hospitals in the UMMHC system include:
8/3/2016

12. OUR EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS:COMMUNIVERSITY
Class of Student Orientation
MPP
OUR EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS:COMMUNIVERSITY
Four Major Educational Affiliates:
StVincent
Milford RMC
Berkshire MC
Cape Cod HC
Plus 8 CHC, 200 practices Williamstown to Nantucket
and others
8 community health centers
and over 200 practices and clinics from Williamstown to Nantucket
BEYOND THE LPP:
YOU WILL HAVE CLINICAL EXPERIENCES IN DIVERSE SETTINGS ACROSS THE STATE
In greater worcester county :
StV’s
Milford RMC
Harrington MC
To the West :
Baystate Medical Center
Berkshire Medical Center
Holyoke Medical Center
In greater Boston to the east
1. Lahey medical Center
And to the south
1. Cape cod health care : our newest full service regional medical center, where students will be placed in clerkships commencing in Jan 2016. •
8/3/2016

13. Students agree to abide by a UMMS honor code, collaboratively written with faculty
In embarking on my career in medicine, I will safeguard the reputation and uphold the standards of the profession by promoting honesty in academic and professional activities.  
This honor code embodies the level of integrity we expect of ourselves and our peers. The code binds us together by common principles that transcend personal interest and prepares us to shoulder our future responsibilities.

14. The Capstone scholarship & discovery course represents the key principles of LInC brought to life
four year longitudinal
students design and complete a scholarly project in an area of personal passion that builds on any of our six competencies

15. Sample student projects cover a broad range of topics
Implementing an end-of-life decision-making day on campus
Engaging with a student-initiated non-profit healthy food campaign at Worcester restaurants
Assessing depression in community-based HIV treatment
Micro-RNA investigation
Integrative medicine course development
Impact of music on inpatient medical floors
Case report of a patient with unexplained hypercoagulability

16. Learning Communities establish a new context for medical education by providing structured Curriculum, Mentoring, and Student Community.
Blackstone
Burncoat
Kelley
Quinsigamond
Tatnuck
(still to come)

17. QUESTIONS: KAREN.LAWTON@UMASSMED.EDU

18. MD/PHD STUDENTS Learning Communities:
Admissions Class of 2015
MD/PHD STUDENTS
February 21, 2019
Learning Communities:
- Minimum of two MD/PhD students in each house
- Active members during PhD training
- Mentors throughout your MD/PhD training
Clinical Years
- Flexibility: possibility of doing one 16 week clinical rotation prior to entry into PhD program
Capstone
- MD/PhD opportunities are under development
Tricia Droney, MPH