Departmental Medical Student Programs

Faculty from the Department of Family Medicine and Community participate in medical student education throughout the four years of medical school at UMass-Chan.

The department supports a Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) that helps students explore family medicine as a potential career choice. The FMIG sponsors talks and hands-on workshops covering a variety of topics related to family medicine.

The Population Health Clerkship enhances first-year students’ understanding of the importance of the community context in health and health care and many students get early clinical exposure to family medicine within the Longitudinal Preceptor Program (LLP) . This required first- and second-year course grounds the basic science curriculum in patient experiences.

Department faculty also play leadership and supporting roles as course directors, small group leaders, and learning community mentors.

Our family medicine clerkship is a longitudinal clerkship that spans the required clerkship year. Students work with Board Certified Family Physicians longitudinally over twelve months and experience the breadth of family medicine.

Fourth year opportunities include sub-internships in family medicine, as well as in healthcare for the homeless, preventive medicine, family medicine research, international medicine, rural family medicine, and college healthcare.

Family medicine and community health faculty also sponsor research projects with students throughout all four years.