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
Programmable RNA Switches for Ultra-Efficient Control of Gene Therapies Entrepreneurship, Biomedical Design, and Innovation
Reaching Calm: A Digital Intervention to Prevent Perinatal Anxiety Disorders Clinical, Community, and Translational Research
Renalase Inhibitors to Protect Beta Cells in Type 1 Diabetes Entrepreneurship, Biomedical Design, and Innovation
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine Entrepreneurship, Biomedical Design, and Innovation
SATA Liver Transplant Database project Clinical, Community, and Translational Research
Serious Illness Conversations Clinical Care
Sex-based differencces in sternal wound infection rates following cardiopulmonary bypass surgery Clinical, Community, and Translational Research
Sex-based differences in cardiac surgery outcomes Clinical, Community, and Translational Research
Shaping Dietary Attitudes to Support Recovery in Serious Mental Illness: A Nutrition Psychoeducation Intervention (current students Clinical Care, Education, Structural Inequity, Advocacy, and Justice
siRNA targeting DUX4 to treat FSHD Entrepreneurship, Biomedical Design, and Innovation