Non-Lottery Sites & Military Rotations

Additional Family Medicine Sites available not through the registrar’s lottery

Please note that no housing is provided

  • Gary Asher, MD, FAAFP, Lunenburg, MA
  • Christopher Bechara, MD, FAAFP, Lancaster, MA
  • Sunita Godiwala, MD, Holden, MA
  • Michael A. Guidi, DO, Merrimac, MA
  • Martin Hernandez, MD, Springfield, MA
  • Jean Johnson, MD, West Springfield
  • Michael Kaplan, MD, Lee, MA
  • Martin Lesser, DO, Holyoke, MA
  • Jennifer M. Souza, North Attleboro, MA
  • Peter Scuccimari, MD, Dudley, MA

Military Rotation Information

A student in the military and in good standing at BUSM may request to do the Family Medicine Clerkship at a military site. The student must take the following steps in order to submit the request. All requests will be reviewed by the Family Medicine Clerkship Director for a decision and final approval.

It is the student’s responsibility to:

  1. Check that the military program will accommodate BUSM’s 6-week block date that has been assigned. Check that the site will agree to meet the Department of Family Medicine’s clerkship requirements, click here for the requirement form (PDF).
  2. Have the principal preceptor at the military site sign the requirement form agreeing to #1 and #2.
  3. Provide information to the Family Medicine clerkship coordinator, Florence Laforest, that explains the military’s clerkship program. You may choose to submit the military’s handbook or provide a link to a website which describes the military’s clerkship programNote: We strongly recommend clerkships within military Family Medicine Residency sites rather than non-residency based clerkships.
  4. Turn in the signed requirement form.
  5. Requests will be reviewed, once all the above information has been received and verified, and the student will be notified via email by the FM Clerkship Director with the final decision.
  6. If the FM Clerkship Director, Dr. Hoffman, approves of the rotation, the student may then petition the Third and Fourth Year Promotions Committee for their approval.
  7. Once approval by the Promotions Committee is secured, the student may contact the FM clerkship coordinator with the military site contact information so that the coordinator may mail the “preceptor handbook” to the site and confirm dates of attendance.

The student will be required to participate in and complete clerkship orientation, didactic sessions I and II, the online component, patient log, case study, and will return for the final examination day on the last day of the block. The student may be excused from didactic sessions III and IV and the practice interviews if long distance travel is a factor. Release from these didactic sessions is at the discretion of the FM Clerkship Director, and the student should discuss these details with the clerkship director on the first day of the clerkship.