Welcome to the Internal Medicine Residency at UMass Chan!

We train our residents to be well rounded Internists, prepared for careers as clinicians in Primary Care, Hospital Medicine, or fellowships in medical subspecialties; to be educators, researchers and administrators.  Our program strives to achieve the appropriate balance between service and education, in part by minimizing resident involvement in activities of limited educational value.

Our program has articulated four Core Values: Professional Development, Community, Diversity and Innovation.

• Professional Development: a strong focus on professionalism and the physician’s role in society
• Community: emphasis on team learning, wellness, interpersonal skills and a particular focus on interprofessional care models. We encourage a flattened hierarchy within our program.
• Diversity: of patients, curriculum and people. Our program includes gifted learners from diverse backgrounds; top candidates from LCME, Osteopathic and International institutions, and our own UMass Chan graduates.
• Innovation: the program is built and run on a LEAN based process improvement platform. Physician leaders, office staff and residents are all active participants in continuous process improvement.

Our academics are rigorous and our expectations are high. At the same time, our residency program and its teaching venues provide a nurturing and supportive learning environment. We are proud of our mission and the superb clinicians who graduate from UMass Chan. We welcome you to join our team!

Thank you for your interest in our residency program. For the 2024-2025 residency application cycle, our program will be participating in the Internal Medicine tiered signaling program.

• We will utilize both Gold and Silver signals to help prioritize the order of our holistic review of the many outstanding applications we receive. Gold signals will be reviewed first, followed by Silver signals.
• Sending us a signal does not guarantee an interview with our program.
• While we preferentially review applications from those who signal our program, we also consider applicants who do not signal us, particularly those who have indicated a geographic preference for the New England area.
• We encourage all students to signal us if interested in our program, this includes students who may have done visiting rotations with us, as well as our own UMass Chan medical students.
• Program signals cannot be sent to specific tracks. If an applicant is applying to our Primary Care Track and our Categorical Track, we will similarly utilize the signals for both applications.
• As recommended by AAIM, we will not use signals for rank list decision-making.