Third-year medical students at UMass Medical School are getting real-time lessons in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic—a topic not covered in medical textbooks—through an innovative online pandemic curriculum.
The interprofessional course is designed to help medical students understand the multidimensional nature of disaster and pandemic response through virtual experiences with members of the clinical, scientific and public health communities, according to Melissa Fischer, MD, MEd, professor of medicine and associate dean for undergraduate medical education.
A group of third- and fourth-year School of Medicine students learned the nuts and bolts of telehealth at UMass Memorial Medical Center last week so they can step in and help patients and providers with routine patient visits remotely.
The move to remote learning has meant big changes for all UMass Lowell students. But many are also coping with drastic financial changes, says Julie Nash, vice provost for academic affairs.
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, she says, some students watched their financial safety nets vanish almost overnight.
UMass Medical School conferred 135 Doctor of Medicine degrees to the School of Medicine Class of 2020 during a virtual ceremony on Tuesday, March 31, that took place two months early, enabling the new doctors to join the Massachusetts health care workforce immediately to help take on the unprecedented COVID-19 challenge.
The graduation ceremony was livestreamed via Facebook Live and Zoom. Chancellor Michael F. Collins conferred the degrees as Vice Provost of Student Affairs Sonia Chimienti announced each graduate.
It was a sudden, but thrilling change for the School of Medicine’s Class of 2020, graduating two months early from UMass Medical School with only a few days notice, allowing the new physicians to head into the work force early amid the spreading COVID-19 pandemic.
AMHERST, Mass. – In a new paper, Thomas Russell and postdoctoral fellow Ganhua Xie, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, report that they have used capillary forces to develop a simple method for producing self-assembling hanging droplets of an aqueous polymer solution from the surface of a second aqueous polymer solution in well-ordered arrays.
Since 2003, the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation and Stephen Silliman, professor and chair of anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts at UMass Boston, have been running the Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School as an archaeology, heritage, and education project. The Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School is a community-engaged, collaborative historic and cultural preservation effort between the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation and UMass Boston to study cultural and archaeological sites on the historic Eastern Pequot reservation.
Sophomore biology major Kingsly Mante Angua has a lot of things that he wants to do when he graduates from UMass Boston—like become a pediatric surgeon, or work with Doctors Without Borders, or go home to Ghana and build clinics and help fight malaria.
The fourth cohort of UMass Boston students graduated in the winter 2020 session of the Commonwealth Seminar on March 11 marking one year of the partnership between UMass Boston and the Commonwealth Seminar.
Dear students of UMassD,
In January, when we started our spring semester, no one could have predicted the situation in which we now find ourselves. In just a few weeks, the coronavirus has substantially changed the way our University and society at large operate. These changes have been incredibly disruptive to your academics, personal lives, and have dramatically altered your college experience.
This was not how our semester was supposed to end.