Director: Samuel Borden, MD

Location: Baystate Mason Square Neighborhood Health Center, 11 Wilbraham Road, Springfield, MA

Goals

This elective allows a student to become involved in the community-medicine approach to the delivery of primary care for both adults and children.

Objectives

The student will…

• see patients in a variety of community health care settings including:

  • students at a school health center
  • home visits for pregnant teenagers and teen mothers
  • the incarcerated population
  • health center clinics including diabetes care, hypertensive  care, HIV management, sexually-transmitted diseases, urgent care, and others
• attend core lectures in pediatrics, and both pediatric and medicine grand rounds.
• receive a brief exposure to the outpatient medicine and pediatric wards.
• interact with a variety of health care workers including medicine/pediatric residents and faculty, nurse practitioners, and social workers.

If you would like to apply for this elective, please refer to Application Process.