International Medical Education

Mission Statement

This program adds a global dimension to medical education at UMMS by supporting international electives by UMMS students and electives at UMMS by students from foreign medical schools with whom we have a formal exchange program. With respect to our own students, the primary goals are to develop linguistic, cultural and physical diagnosis skills to enable them to better serve a rapidly expanding immigrant and refugee population in Massachusetts and the United States.

Facility/location

Benedict Bldg, A3-325

Listing of faculty and staff

Mick Godkin, PhD, Director
Teresa J. Roy, Administrative Assistant

Contact us

Mick Godkin, PhD: (508) 856-3917
Web Site: www.umassmed.edu/intmeded/

Project highlights

• In the past six years, UMMS medical students have been trained in medical facilities and language schools in forty-seven countries.
• Since 1997, one hundred sixty-seven UMMS students have traveled to forty-seven different countries.
• Since July 1999, thirty-five students from foreign medical schools with whom we have a formal exchange program, have completed clinical electives at UMMS.
• A specific program, a four-year Pathway on Serving Multicultural and Underserved Populations, which integrates domestic and international experiences with such populations throughout medical school, now has eighty-five student participants since its inception in 1998.
• Evaluation data have demonstrated that students participating in the Pathway and International electives develops higher levels of cultural and linguistic competence, and enthusiasm and idealism than non-traveling class cohorts.
• The formation of a UMMS Rotaract Club has led to an exciting relationship with Rotary International including access to its vast global network and its Overseas Volunteers Scholarships.