Baystate Medical Center is a major teaching hospital and the regional campus of UMass Chan Medical School. Baystate is a national leader in healthcare quality and innovative medical education. The third-largest teaching hospital in Massachusetts, Baystate maintains an intimate atmosphere in a state-of-the-art tertiary care referral center.
The Internal Medicine (IM) Residency program at UMass Chan-Baystate, trains residents to be leaders in clinical innovation, transformative medical education, and patient-centered care. Our program is designed to foster individualized career goals by offering two programs, categorical and primary care tracks with a curriculum founded on the competency based Learner-Manager-Teacher Model.
Our residents are encouraged to think critically and apply evidence-based medicine in a supportive team-based model of care. Our variety of medical career tracks including Social Justice, Humanities, Research, and Medical Education tracks offer individualized training options. Additionally, the Community Health & Advocacy Pathway (CHAP) offers residents a unique training experience to address the socioeconomic factors and health disparities that affect our patients and community.
Graduates interested in subspecialty training receive competitive fellowships or pursue careers in academic medicine, hospital medicine and primary care. Our residents succeed in balancing clinical work, award-winning research, family, friends and outside interests.
We welcome you to visit us and see what makes our program so special!
Meet Our Team
Program Administrators
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Education Coordinator
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Administrative Coordinator
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Marie Housey, Phone: 413-794-4373
Stephanie Chapin
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William Zing
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Laura Slowick |
By the Numbers
Program Metrics
- Residents per class: 18 | Total number of residents: 57
- Male/female ratio: Male 55% : Female 45%
- Graduates entering Fellowship training over past 3 years: over 60%
- One of only 21 national residency programs selected by the ACGME to participate in its Educational Innovations Project developed to encourage the redesign internal medicine residency education focusing on training the "Internist of the Future."
Department Metrics
- Number of Faculty: 200
- 11 Medicine Subspecialty Fellowship Programs: Cardiology, Electrophysiology, Interventional Cardiology, Critical Care Medicine, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Gastroenterology, Geriatric Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Disease, Nephrology, Pulmonary Disease & Critical Care Medicine