Emilynne Buchanan and Tasha Elsemore receive Betty Ford Center Summer Institute for Medical Students Fellowship

Emilynne Buchanan, MS II, and Tasha Elsemore, MS I, were both awarded the Betty Ford Center Summer Institute for Medical Students (SIMS) Fellowship.  SIMS is an experiential learning model.  Buchanan and Elsemore will be participants in a treatment process that facilitates an in-depth, personal and unique learning experience.  Instead of participation in a classroom setting, Buchanan and Elsemore, whose UNECOM sponsor is Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., Department of Geriatric Medicine, will learn by being integrated into the daily lives of either the patients currently in treatment or the participants in the family program of the Center.

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.