Medicine-Pediatrics Residency at UMass-Chan Baystate

Welcome to Baystate Med-Peds!

Welcome to the Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate. I am excited to share what makes Baystate Med-Peds such a meaningful place to train!

Med-Peds training is broad, challenging, and deeply meaningful. It asks residents to move between disciplines, clinical settings, and stages of life while developing the judgment to care for patients from newborns to older adults. It also offers an extraordinary foundation for many different careers in medicine.

At Baystate Med-Peds, we are intentional about how residents grow. We believe strong training requires excellent clinical experiences, thoughtful mentorship, and a community where residents feel known and supported. As our residents progress through training, they build clinical confidence, take on increasing responsibility, lead teams, teach others, and shape their path toward the careers they hope to pursue.

Our program has deep roots, with more than four decades of graduates who have gone on to careers in primary care, hospital medicine, fellowship, medical education, advocacy, and leadership. We are proud of that history, and we are also focused on the work of strengthening the program for the residents and patients we serve today.

I hope this site gives you a sense of what matters to us: excellent care across the lifespan, meaningful continuity with patients, strong Med-Peds mentorship, and a training environment where residents are supported, challenged, and prepared for what comes next.

Natalya Maharaj, MD, MPH, FAAP
Program Director, Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, UMass-Chan Baystate
Pediatric Hospitalist, Baystate Children's Hospital

What Defines Our Program

Baystate Med-Peds is shaped by four core strengths: intentional training, meaningful continuity, committed mentorship, and a deep connection to the community we serve.

Intentional Training

Residents grow across all four years through the unique Learner-Manager-Teacher model that was developed here at Baystate – progressively building from strong clinical foundations to team leadership, teaching, and individualized career preparation.

Continuity Across the Lifespan

At Baystate Mason Square Neighborhood Health Center, residents care for their own panel of patients — newborns, children, adolescents, adults, and families — throughout residency.

Med-Peds Mentorship

Residents learn from Med-Peds trained faculty across inpatient medicine, primary care, subspecialty care, medical education, and leadership.

Community-Centered Care

Our residents care for patients and families across Western Massachusetts, learning to provide care that is grounded in each patient’s story, family, culture, and lived experience.

The Community We Serve

We have the privilege of caring for patients and families from across Western Massachusetts and neighboring communities. Our residents learn from people across urban, rural, and suburban settings, including immigrant communities and communities that have experienced barriers to care.

Our patients teach us the importance of listening carefully, understanding each person’s story, and recognizing how family, community, culture, and lived experience shape health. At Baystate Med-Peds, service, advocacy, and health equity are part of how we understand excellent clinical care.

We Look Forward to Meeting You

For applicants seeking the meaningful challenge of combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics training, we hope you will consider Baystate Med-Peds.

Here, you will care for patients across the lifespan, train within strong Internal Medicine and Pediatric departments, build lasting relationships with patients and mentors, and grow within a community that wants to see you succeed.

We are happy to answer your questions. Call us at 413-794-3998.

The Medicine-Pediatrics Residency at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate is ACGME-accredited.