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UMass Memorial Health Care and its academic partner, UMass Medical School, share a common campus in Worcester but more importantly, they share a common goal: To serve the region through excellence in medical care, education, research and public service.
UMass Medical School is Massachusetts' first and only public medical school providing affordable, high-quality medical education to Commonwealth residents. Founded in 1962, it is one of five University of Massachusetts campuses, and one of about 28 freestanding, university-based academic health science campuses in the United States. The main components of UMass Medical School are the School of Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the Graduate School of Nursing.
Today, UMass Medical School retains the pioneering spirit that attracted its founding faculty and students, even as it has matured to become one of the nation's top 50 medical schools. The School of Medicine has garnered a national reputation for its primary care program and consistently ranks in the top 10 percent in the annual U.S. News & World Report guide, "America's Best Graduate Schools." More than half of each graduating class enters into primary care residencies and a high number of graduates practice throughout the Commonwealth.
Over the past four decades, researchers have made advances in a broad range of disease families, from HIV and infectious diseases, to cancer and genetic disorders, to diabetes and immune disease. In 2006, UMass Medical School Professor Craig Mello, PhD, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet for his contributions to the codiscovery of RNA interference.
Connect to the UMass Medical School web site. Learn about residency and fellowships at UMass Medical School.
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