Health Issues Affecting the Community of Worcester: The Bigger Picture
The course exposes medical and nursing students at UMass to the health needs of the community in which they live, study, and train, with a particular focus on underserved communities. In traditional medical training, students see only individual patients, and are not exposed to the problems of the community within the broader context.
The Bigger Picture optional enrichment course augments the elements of the UMMS curriculum which prepare students to address the needs future patients’ needs holistically, such as the unique Community Health Clerkship (CHC), the Patient, Physician and Society (PPS) course, and the “Physician as Patient and Community Advocate” core competency, among numerous other opportunities.
For further information, please contact:
Suzanne.Cashman@umassmed.edu
Tim.Gleeson@umassmed.edu MSII
Michelle.Dyke@umassmed.edu MSII
Jarred.Mcateer@umassmed.edu MSII