In an effort to further increase the number of medical students training and eventually practicing in Maine, Maine Medical Center in Portland and the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston have renewed a 10-year partnership agreement originally signed in 2008.
The agreement calls for future expansion of the number of students in each so-called “Maine Track” class, and an increase in the amount of time they when would train in Maine.
“Currently, the Maine Track students, there are 40 in each year. [They] spend the third and fourth years training in Maine,” says MMC Vice-President of Medical Education Dr. Robert Bing-You. “With this new agreement the Maine Track students will spend the entire second year learning in Maine.”
Bing-You says the plan is to grow the number of students with close ties to Maine enrolled in the program. He says there are around 24 in the incoming class, and that typically a quarter of the Maine Track students decide to pursue their residencies at Maine Medical Center.
