Students in Tufts Maine Track Program focus of Boothbay Register article

Boothbay Register published a LincolnHealth article about two students in the Maine Medical Center-Tufts University School of Medicine Maine Track Program. Maine Track Early Assurance reserves a limited number of seats per year for sophomores from University of Maine System institutions, Bowdoin, Bates and Colby. The program was established in 2008 with the hope that a significant number of its graduates will go on to practice medicine in Maine. Valerie Smith and Jennifer MacDowell, who were accepted into the program while students at the University of Maine, have spent the past eight months at LincolnHealth and other clinical locations in Lincoln County, according to the article. It was at UMaine where Smith realized she wanted to attend medical school, the article states. “I realized that as much as I liked doing research and working in the lab, it was the personal connection and interaction with patients that I really loved,” she said.