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Springfield resident and community activist Charlie Holmes received the UMass Medical School "2020 Patient Teacher Award," which acknowledges the contributions of an individual patient to undergraduate medical education.

Semester-long projects driven by high schoolers and med students target high priority health needs in the community.

The grant awards were given to create opportunities to improve social and economic determinants of health and improve quality of life for people living in the region.

Does Baystate’s MIGHTY weight management program improve confidence? A Baystate doctor and a University of Hartford researcher are partnering to find out.

Anyone can publish anything on the internet. Baystate's Health librarians will connect you with reliable health information that is the most useful and appropriate for you.

Baystate Health was awarded a grant by TD Bank to operate a mobile health clinic that will improve access to preventive care in under-served urban and rural areas—while training future healthcare professionals.

Baystate Health is preparing healthcare providers to better serve veterans and their families by training both medical students and practicing medical professionals to understand health issues experienced by vets.

Medical and pharmacy students were "embedded" in service organizations this fall as part of their Population Health Clerkship. They presented their experiences to an audience of legislators, community members, and faculty at UMass Medical School's Baystate campus.

In this Voices of UMassMed podcast you'll learn how visits to a grocery store, jail, homeless shelter, and a car mechanic are used to teach population health concepts to medical students in Baystate's PURCH track.

Medical students in Baystate’s PURCH Track are working with community groups to address the teen vaping crisis in rural Quaboag Hills—a region with higher vaping use than the national average among 8th, 10th and 12th graders.