UMass Chan Medical School Communications
December 28, 2022
As the twelvemonth comes to a close, the Office of Communications is rerunning immoderate of the biggest and astir work stories posted successful 2022, with topics specified arsenic the UMass Chan probe that guided the FDA connected recommendations for accelerated COVID-19 tests, plans for a determination aesculapian field with Lahey Hospital & Medical Center successful Burlington and The Boston Globe’s Top Places to Work list, which included UMass Chan for the archetypal time. Look for these stories on UMass Chan News betwixt Dec. 21 and Dec. 30. This communicative was primitively published connected Dec. 7.
The archetypal UMass Chan-Lahey students are expected to matriculate successful the summertime of 2024. Each twelvemonth UMass Chan anticipates accepting astir 25 students who volition beryllium enrolled astatine UMass Chan-Lahey.
UMass Chan Medical School and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center announced contiguous that they person signed a maestro affiliation statement to found a determination aesculapian field to beryllium known arsenic UMass Chan-Lahey. Based astatine Lahey Hospital & Medical Center successful Burlington, the caller field volition alteration a concern to beforehand aesculapian acquisition and amended conscionable the workforce needs of the commonwealth by educating physicians to conscionable the needs of divers communities. The signed statement follows an announcement successful August of a nonbinding agreement to research constitution of the campus
With the affiliation statement signed, the adjacent measurement includes reappraisal and support of plans to found UMass Chan-Lahey by the Liaison Committee connected Medical Education (LCME). Pending the LCME’s decision, which is expected astir March 2023, it is anticipated that the archetypal UMass Chan-Lahey students volition matriculate successful the summertime of 2024, and that each twelvemonth UMass Chan would judge astir 25 students who volition beryllium enrolled astatine UMass Chan-Lahey. These aesculapian students would travel the halfway program of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine astatine UMass Chan successful Worcester, with each their objective experiences taking spot astatine Lahey. UMass Chan-Lahey aesculapian students volition besides person a peculiar absorption connected leadership, wellness systems subject and interprofessional education.
“The UMass Chan-Lahey determination aesculapian field volition physique connected the occurrence of our archetypal determination field astatine Baystate Health successful Springfield,” said Terence R. Flotte, MD, the Celia and Isaac Haidak Professor, enforcement lawman chancellor, provost and dean of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine. “UMass Chan-Baystate was established successful 2015 and is location to the Medical School’s Population-based Urban and Rural Community Health (PURCH) track.”
It is anticipated that implicit clip the collaboration volition alteration the Lahey module to go valued members of the UMass Chan faculty.
“This concern brings unneurotic 2 organizations with a shared ngo to attraction for our communities,” said Anne C. Larkin, MD, subordinate prof of country and vice provost and elder subordinate dean for acquisition affairs. “Beginning successful the caller year, we volition prosecute the UMass Chan and Lahey communities successful processing our innovative program astir leadership, wellness strategy subject and interprofessional acquisition arsenic we physique this caller determination aesculapian schoolhouse campus. We look guardant to sharing much connected the adjacent steps successful the coming months.”
UMass Chan and Lahey besides question to signifier a caller probe collaboration, unneurotic creating a caller institute for wellness attraction transportation and implementation subject and quantitative subject probe hub, to beforehand innovation successful integer medicine, colonisation health, and wellness attraction delivery.
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UMass Chan Medical School and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center motion missive of intent to found determination aesculapian campus
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