Tufts program fast-tracks UMaine’s top pre-med students to meet critical needs
As the sun peaked over the Atlantic Ocean in winter 2016, India Stewart walked into Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport, Maine. By noon, the then-third-year student at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) had participated in several surgeries, including a bilateral mastectomy, a below-the-knee amputation and a cystectomy for bladder cancer.
In the afternoon, the 2013 University of Maine graduate was in the OB/GYN clinic, performing physical exams, providing prenatal care and counseling patients on sexual health.
It was all par for the course during Stewart’s nine-month TUSM Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) wherein she cared for patients in family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry and surgery settings with discipline-specific physicians.
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