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UMass Chan Medical School is welcoming 379 new students across its three schools to the Worcester campus this week. Everyone will come together on Friday, Aug. 21, for an orientation organized by the Office of Student Life. The Diversity and Inclusion Office also has activities planned that afternoon.
“Yes, we will teach you medicine,” Chancellor David D. McManus, MD’02, ScM’12, MBA, told the T.H. Chan School of Medicine Class of 2030, on Monday, Aug. 17, noting that although it was his first orientation as chancellor, his first UMass Chan orientation was as a student 28 years ago. “But my hope is that UMass Chan will also teach you how to see differently. You will learn to see patterns where others see disconnected facts, to see a person, not a diagnosis, to see the social circumstances behind a clinical problem.”
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T.H. Chan School of Medicine Class of 2030 profile
There are 216 new MD students and 10 students in the Medical Scientist Training Program, UMass Chan’s MD/PhD program funded by the National Institutes of Health. Medical Scientist Training Program students spend their first two years in the T.H. Chan School of Medicine before beginning the PhD portion of their studies in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
Of the 226 students in the Class of 2030, 23 are in the LEAD@Lahey program, a regional campus track centered at the UMass Chan-Lahey campus in Burlington focused on leadership. A record 33 students are in the Population-based Urban and Rural Community Health (PURCH) track. PURCH students, who spend time at the UMass Chan-Baystate campus in Springfield, follow the core curriculum of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine with an added focus on population health, healthcare disparities, and health issues specific to urban and rural communities. Boston resident Cameron Bonnevie came to UMass Chan for the PURCH program.
“To me, it’s hard to think about practicing medicine without also thinking about everything that goes into someone’s life and their health. Do they have access to technology? Do they have access to food? What else is going on in the lives?” said Bonnevie, a neuroscience and French major at Wesleyan University. “Other schools didn’t have the same community aspects and it wasn’t quite as integrated into the school. It felt like it was a completely separate regional campus, whereas I feel like we’re more integrated.”
The class ranges in age from 21 to 36; 71 percent of the class (161) are women. Twenty-seven states are represented. There are 115 students from Massachusetts, 44 from California and 18 from New York. Four students are from Canada. Twenty-five students completed their undergraduate education at one of the UMass campuses, with six completing the Baccalaureate MD Pathway Program. As for the most represented undergraduate campus, it’s a tie: there are 18 UMass Amherst and 18 Northeastern University alumni in the class. The Class of 2030 speaks 55 languages and enters medical school with a combined 923,167 research and clinical hours.
“We chose you because of your previous accomplishments and because we see what you are capable of. What matters now is what you will accomplish together. So welcome to the team,” McManus said.
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Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences by the numbers
Orientation for the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences begins on Thursday, Aug. 20. There are 39 PhD students, nine students in the Postbaccalaureate Research Program and another five students enrolled in the Master of Science in Clinical Investigation Program. Of the students earning a PhD in biomedical sciences, 30 are enrolled in the Basic Biomedical Sciences Umbrella Pathway, four are enrolled in the Biophysical, Chemical and Computational Biology Pathway and five are in the Population Health Sciences Pathway. Sixty-three percent of the new students are women. Fourteen states are represented with most (27) from Massachusetts. The eight international students represent five countries: China, India, Greece, Japan and Vietnam.
Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing by the numbers
The Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing will hold its orientation on Friday, Aug. 21. One hundred new nursing students are enrolled, including 50 students in the Direct Entry Master of Science in Nursing for Non-Nurses degree program. This is the first year for the program, which prepares individuals with bachelor’s degrees in fields other than nursing to become master’s-educated registered nurses in as little as 16 months. The second-largest cohort is for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing to Doctor of Nursing Practice program: 33 students among the four tracks. Nursing students hail from Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Virginia.
