UMass Chan Educational Mission
Consistently ranked by U.S.News & World Report as one of the leading medical schools in the nation for primary care education, the T.H. Chan School of Medicine has a foremost responsibility to provide our students with an accessible, comprehensive and personally rewarding medical education of the highest quality and one that optimally prepares them to excel as tomorrow’s physicians—caring, competent, productive and fulfilled in their chosen career serving a diversity of patients, communities and the health sciences. The school is committed to training in the full range of medical disciplines, with an emphasis on practice in the primary care specialties, in the public sector and in underserved areas of Massachusetts. read more...
Educational Partners and Affiliates
UMass Memorial Health is the clinical partner of UMass Chan and the largest health care system in Central and Western Massachusetts. It is a not-for-profit, integrated system designed to provide all levels of health care from primary to quaternary. UMass Memorial Health Care delivers care through the UMass Memorial Medical Center and community hospitals (Clinton Hospital, HealthAlliance Hospital, Marlborough Hospital and Wing Memorial Hospital and Medical Centers) with health care services further enhanced and augmented by community primary care practices, ambulatory outpatient clinics, home health agencies, hospice programs, rehabilitation and mental health services. read more...
Major Teaching Hospital Affiliates
In addition to UMass Memorial Medical Center, UMass Chan has major educational affiliations with Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, and Milford Regional Medical Center.
UMass Chan Schools and Other Sites
Along with the T.H. Chan School of Medicine, UMass Chan comprises the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing. The Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences has two divisions—Basic & Biomedical Sciences and Clinical & Translational Sciences—that offer 10 programs of study. Students are trained in their selected specialty area and receive a broad background in the basic medical sciences, in preparation for research with direct relevance to human disease. Graduates are equipped to collaborate with scientists and physicians involved in basic research and clinical observations and are prepared to initiate careers as educators in schools of the health professions or in the biotechnology industry.
The Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing offers master’s, post-master’s and doctoral degrees, providing high quality education to prepare registered professional and advanced practice nurses within nurse practitioner and nurse educator specialties for faculty, research and other nursing leadership positions. Subspecialty professional and clinical education is also offered in selected areas. The basis for study includes theoretical foundations of professional and advanced practice nursing, research process and design, societal forces that influence nursing, advanced pathophysiology, pharmacology, health assessment, clinical decision making, specialty content and clinical education.
The UMass Chan extended campus includes the Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute and labs and offices within the Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Park in Worcester; sites in Shrewsbury and Auburn; the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center in Waltham; and the New England Newborn Screening Program and MassBiologics with facilities in Jamaica Plain and Mattapan.