The UMass Chan Population and Community Health Clerkship (PCHC) is a team-based, interprofessional, community engaged experience required of all second year medical students at TH Chan School of Medicine and graduate nursing students at Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing.

Students are placed in small groups directed by academic and community preceptors from a range of professions and disciplines and focused on a population or community of interest. Each team’s experience is unique.

In this clerkship, students will:

● Collect, synthesize, and/or explain relevant population-level data

● Identify the interprofessional team members who care for the population

● Explore best practices for advocacy with a population to improve social and structural determinants of health

● Apply knowledge toward meaningful service in a community