Grand Rapids|Kalamazoo|Saginaw|East Lansing|Upper Peninsula|Flint

Currently, all medical students at MSU’s College of Human Medicine spend their first two years on the East Lansing campus. Students then elect to spend their final 2 years at one of six community campuses including East Lansing, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Kalamazoo, Flint, and the Upper Peninsula. In coming years, it is anticipated that the Medical School class size will expand by 50, with some of the additional students spending their 2nd, 3rd and 4th years at the Grand Rapids campus. Eventually, it is envisioned that a full four-year campus will exist in Grand Rapids. The East Lansing campus will retain its full complement of medical students, residents and fellows during and after this expansion.

• An education and research consortium that effectively integrates the training of residents, medical students and health professions students
• A research institute that will serve as the central vehicle for clinical research in Grand Rapids
• An educational organization that promotes education and research on a citywide basis - crossing hospital and university boundaries in a non-competitive manner
• An education and research center that is a model for integrative medical and health professions education

You are invited to take some time to explore the web site at http://www.grmerc.net/.

The Grand Rapids area is home to a progressive, high-quality medical and health professions community with a strong track record of delivering comprehensive care to the region. More than 900 volunteer clinical faculty participate in the education of our students and residents, offering our trainees a diverse, highly talented and committed group of health professionals from which to learn. The Van Andel Research Institute is an independent research organization designed to improve human health by focusing on cancer research.

Kalamazoo Community Campus
Michigan State University Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies (MSU/KCMS) Department of Continuing Medical Education (CME) is an institution fully accredited by the Michigan State Medical Society Committee on CME Accreditation. The following points make up the MSU/KCMS Mission Statement:

• Establish and promote programs in postgraduate medical education. Provide consultative services in postgraduate medical education for hospitals or other health related organizations as needed to facilitate high quality continuing education in the region.
• Organize, develop, and promote a diverse continuing medical education program that meets the needs of physicians primarily in Southwestern Michigan. Programs will provide current and relevant information focusing on multiple specialties to serve physicians representing various specialty disciplines. Topics are based on needs assessment data as well as other sources.
• Offer a full gamut of activities including weekly, monthly, regularly scheduled CME activities as well as specially scheduled single and multi-day activities incorporating lecture, interactive didactic sessions and other presentation methodologies to allow physicians to better serve their patient populations by improving the quality of care, patient education, and health knowledge.

For more information visit the KCMS website at http://www.kcms.msu.edu/.

Saginaw Community Campus
Synergy Medical Education Alliance was formed in 1969 to coordinate all of the medical education activities in the Saginaw community. The corporation's primary educational missions include undergraduate medical education (third and fourth year medical students), residency training and continuing medical education for all Saginaw physicians.

Our formal affiliation with Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (MSU-CHM) means that our residents and faculty benefit from daily interaction with third- and fourth-year medical students who are completing their clinical training here.
Close to 80 resident physicians make up Synergy Medical's house staff. Our residents rotate among our member hospitals, which have a combined bed capacity of nearly 1,000, and feature state-of-the-art facilities and the best in medical care.

Located at 1000 Houghton Ave., in Saginaw, Michigan, Synergy Medical provides administrative offices for all the teaching programs. Combined with our Generations Family Care (Synergy Medical's Clinic), we provide over 40,000 patient visits annually and a medical library which acts as the health sciences library for the region.

For more information visit the website at http://www.schi.org/.

East Lansing Campus
East Lansing is the home base of the College of Human Medicine and Michigan State University. The Lansing community has the unique advantage of having Michigan State University as its next door neighbor. This allows the volunteer faculty and the students access to the educational, cultural, athletic and research facilities available at Michigan State University.

Medical students from all four years receive instruction from the full-time faculty at Michigan State University and from the large number of volunteer faculty, consisting of practicing physicians, residents, fellows and allied health care professionals within the Lansing area. The available faculty resources in the Lansing community give the students access to a large selection of specialty and subspecialty rotations.

The East Lansing campus has graduate programs in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Family Practice. In addition, fellowship programs exist in Cardiology, Neonatology, Sports Medicine, Geriatrics, Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology, and Hematology/Oncology. Teaching medical students is an integral part of these graduate programs and the majority of these residents/fellows hold volunteer clinical appointments through their respective department at Michigan State University.

Upper Peninsula Community Campus
After completing their first two years on campus in East Lansing, the U.P. students begin their education in the Upper Peninsula with a one-week orientation and a one-month family practice clerkship here in the Marquette area. Practicing physicians with offices located throughout the medical communities of Ishpeming, Marquette, Gwinn, and Negaunee, and at Bell Memorial Hospital in Ishpeming and Marquette General Hospital in Marquette, provide the students with their first exposure to hands-on patient care.

Later in the curriculum, after completing clerkships in psychiatry, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and junior surgery, students are assigned to one of the several rural sites throughout the Upper Peninsula. The students will spend eight-weeks at their assigned site working one-on-one with primary care physicians with an emphasis on family and community medicine.

Students then return to Marquette to complete clerkships in advanced medicine, senior surgery, and a number of electives.

Marquette General Hospital, a regional referral center with 352 beds, serves as the training site for the core clinical curriculum. With over 200 physicians in a state-of-the-art facility, our students have the resources of a first class teaching hospital at their service. On the cutting edge of technology, informatics, and education, the physicians and staff in Marquette prepare our students with the knowledge and skills to be able to become outstanding physicians. Our students are able to enter any specialty and historically have been highly successful in their chosen careers.

For more information visit http://www.mgh.org/uphec/index.html.

Flint Community Campus
MSU/FAME blends the academic resources of a major Big Ten University medical school ( Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine ) with the clinical resources of our three major Flint area teaching medical centers ( Genesys Regional Medical Center, Hurley Medical Center, and McLaren Regional Medical Center ) to create an exciting, educational environment in medical education.

For more information visit http://msufame.msu.edu/main_site/index.php.