Pathways Longitudinal Projects (PLPs)

The PLPs are a requirement for Worcester-based Pathways. These are longitudinal group initiatives, mentored by a UMass-affiliated PLP faculty mentor, which span across your medical school journey. We require at least 4 learners per PLP. Some PLPs align with multiple Pathways and you will see them listed multiple times.

Please wait until your first Pathways session to learn more about the process of PLP assignments before you reach out to the contacts listed here.

For more information on Pathways, visit: https://www.umassmed.edu/oume/curriculum/Vista-Curriculum/parallel-curricular-programs/Worcester-track/pathways-options/ and refer to the Pathways Handbook.

Select one or more pathways
Title Pathway
(RCT) of Moms@Home, an mHealth mobile app designed to support home blood pressure monitoring in pregnancy Structural Inequity, Advocacy, and Justice, Clinical, Community, and Translational Research
A Digital Lifestyle Change Intervention for Individuals Using GLP-1 RAs Clinical, Community, and Translational Research
A General Approach for Therapeutically Targeting​ Pharmacologically Intractable Proteins in Cancer Entrepreneurship, Biomedical Design, and Innovation
AAV NoSTOP platform to suppress nonsense mutations Entrepreneurship, Biomedical Design, and Innovation
ADISSP: A novel adipokine that regulates glucose uptake and increases weight loss​ Entrepreneurship, Biomedical Design, and Innovation
Advancing health equity locally and/or globally with the Collaborative in Health Equity team Education, Population, Community, and Global Health, Structural Inequity, Advocacy, and Justice, Clinical, Community, and Translational Research
AI Applications in Clinical Medical Education Entrepreneurship, Biomedical Design, and Innovation
ASO C9orf72 ASO for ALS Entrepreneurship, Biomedical Design, and Innovation
Assessing Pain Management Practices for IUD Insertion at UMass: A Quality Improvement Initiative Health Systems Science, Structural Inequity, Advocacy, and Justice
Association of Health Belief Variables, Religiosity, and Spirituality with Anticoagulation Use in Older Adults with Atrial Fibrillation Clinical, Community, and Translational Research