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What applicants said about UMass Chan Medical School-MA in the 2026 cycle

Worcester, MA

UMass Chan Medical School-MA

Applicant sentiment — from 10 anonymous posts, 2025–2026 Derm

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Fame & Shame

2025–2026 Derm

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1. Disclaimer I've never visited this program in person, but wanted to shoutout the great vibes and resources they seemed to have on interview day. Specialty clinics galore and exposure to what sounded like state of the art resources and research. Also tons of admin time, I think it was 2 or 2.5 afternoons off each week. Most importantly to me residents seemed super happy and got along great with faculty. Location isn't great compared to Boston or other cities but COL is good for the area. Sounds like they like away rotators though so I'd encourage doing an away there if you're intersted

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what programs are reapplicant friendly?

#3564Mar 29

UMass and Dartmouth, probably others too

Mar 31
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did umass actually call about RTM???

#3045Feb 23

yes

Mar 7
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can you say when you got the call?

Mar 7
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umass student here. can guarantee they don't do this, plzz stop making people anxious thank you<3

Mar 7
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i mean if they call people from outside your institution, how would you know/or not know

Mar 7
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bc I know program leadership well enough to know they're not about it. there's a difference between calling mentors to ask about an applicant vs calling the applicant themselves. they do not do the latter

Mar 7
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thoughts on UMass interview?

#2501Feb 21

loved some rooms, felt awkward in others

Feb 21
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was it mostly behavioral or app-specific, or a mix?

Feb 21
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for people who had UMass interviews already, when did you get your detailed schedule? And how was the interview?

#2427Feb 21

got it 5 days before - what is the 1.5 hours with residents

Feb 21
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just powerpoint presentation, a couple videos, and Q&A, pretty relaxed

Feb 21
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just powerpoint presentation, a couple videos, and Q&A, pretty relaxed

Mar 7
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To the people who got UMass away, were you contacted about the mask fit and OSHA/BLS training a few weeks back?

#265Feb 21

Yes, I was contacted, but not yet offered

Feb 21
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anyone apply to UMass away get an email saying it requires a mask fit even though vslo doesnt list it as a req?

#157Feb 21

No, but I got notified that my home school has to verify the expiration dates of my BLS and OSHA trainings, neither of which are part of the requirement list. They marked my application as "student ineligible"

Feb 21
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Wait, what dates did you apply to? Was it the July slots?

Feb 21
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they said the OSHA thing to me too and also marked me as ineligible.... I applied to Sept and Oct slots

Feb 21
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I applied to June and August and had the OSHA/BLS ineligibility issue. Idek how to get it fixed since there's no document slot for it on VSLO

Feb 21
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Did they send the OSHA and BLS training request to your personal email linked to VSLO or to your home institution coordinator? Ahh freaking out because I didn't get the email.

Feb 21
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It was to my personal email/VSLO notification. As far as I know, they have not contacted my school at all

Feb 21
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umass coordinator confirmed that you need to tell your school to confirm the things that are missing rip guess i need to go get a mask fit

Feb 21
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It was to my personal email/VSLO notification. As far as I know, they have not contacted my school at all

Mar 7
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umass coordinator confirmed that you need to tell your school to confirm the things that are missing rip guess i need to go get a mask fit

Mar 7
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Did Harvard really poach Harris from UMass? :(

#3578Apr 1

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