One of the original community campus sites established by the College of Human Medicine (1971), Grand Rapids has a long tradition of outstanding programs in medical education. The Grand Rapids Campus implements its programs through the Grand Rapids Medical Education & Research Center for Health Professions.

Each year up to 60 third- and fourth-year medical students are assigned to our campus. The Grand Rapids Campus offers all required rotations and electives are available in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas and in research. The undergraduate program is under the direction of the Community Assistant Dean, who is aided by the Community Administrator and her staff, and by full or part-time Clerkship Directors of Family Practice, Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics and Human Development, Psychiatry, Research and Surgery. Throughout the community, more than 1,000 volunteer physician educators support the program.

In addition to ambulatory training within resident clinics and private office settings, students are exposed to clinics designed to care for special populations. Two used perhaps the most often are Clinica Santa Maria (serving primarily a Hispanic population), and the Sparta Clinic (serving primarily a immigrant population). Grand Rapids institutions contain 1300 beds with annual admissions of over 64,000.

The Grand Rapids Campus provides an ideal environment within which medical students may grow both professionally and personally.