Department of Medicine

Residency Program

Inpatient Training Sites

University Campus

The 371-bed University campus of UMass Memorial Medical Center has a full range of inpatient services. The medical wards provide a mix of general and subspecialty care with 98 percent of the patients attended by our full-time faculty. Here, housestaff work in a variety of medical ward settings, two intensive care units (one for coronary care and one for pulmonary and general medicine) and an active emergency department. In addition to the primary care and medical subspecialty clinics, the hospital has a complete neurodiagnostic center, and programs in occupational health, learning disabilities, sports medicine, stress reduction, and behavioral medicine. Active renal, hepatic,  pancreatic, and bone marrow transplantation services are located here.

The university campus ward teams include one resident, two interns, and frequently third and fourth year medical students. Long call is every fifth day, with a short call on the third day of the cycle. The long call team leaves the hospital by 10:00 p.m., signing out their patients to a night float intern. A night float resident and attending hospitalist admit patients after 8:30 p.m., or when the long call team has admitted ten patients.

In addition, there are two "short-stay" teams, each comprised of one resident and two interns. These teams admit every other day until 4:00 p.m. The focus of these teams is to care for patients with an anticipated brief hospitalization.

The Medical Intensive Care Unit has 16 beds, and is supervied by a pulmonologist/intensivist. Our 14 bed Coronary Care Unit is one of the largest in New England, and is supervised by faculty from the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. Each unit is staffed by three residents, two interns, and nurse practitioners.

Memorial Campus

The Memorial Hospital is among the oldest and most respected teaching hospitals in Massachusetts. This 386-bed facility is located near the center of Worcester. Thanks to a recently completed expansion and renovation campaign it features a state of the art emergency department, inpatient wards and critical care units. There is a neonatal ICU, and the majority of deliveries within the city occur on this campus.

On the Memorial Campus, there are six ward teams comprised of one resident, one intern and one or two medical students. Long call is every sixth night, with a short call on day three of the cycle. The long call team leaves the hospital by 10:00 p.m., signing out to a night float intern. A night float resident admits patients after 8:30 p.m.

A 14-bed Critical Care Unit providing cardiac and medical intensive care is staffed by three residents, two interns and nurse practitioners. A dedicated core of pulmonary/critical care and cardiology faculty provide teaching and supervision to the housestaff. 

Milford-Whitinsville Regional Hospital

Milford-Whitinsville Regional Hospital (MWRH) is a 182-bed facility serving the nearby community of Milford. Four teams of UMass medical house officers, each comprising a resident, an intern, a third-year medical student, and possibly a subintern rotate through the inpatient service at MWRH every month. The patient mix here is quite different from that seen in the tertiary care center, and affords our residents an experience complementary to that of the Worcester campuses. The Milford rotation is overseen by an on-site member of our faculty, as well as one of our chief residents.