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The Larner College of Medicine  has created a clinical Branch Campus in western Connecticut at which approximately 35 ����̽̽ students complete their required clinical activities during the Clerkship and Advanced Integrations years. 

The Connecticut Campus is also home to the Global Health Program, which focuses on improving patient care and medical education through cooperation and the exchange of ideas. By exposing students to different health care systems and socioeconomic structures, the program aims to give an understanding of the challenges in providing and improving patient care in our partnership countries. 

The program serves a population of approximately 940,000 in 28 communities in the area of Connecticut, from coastal Norwalk in the south to the rolling hills of New Milford and Danbury to the north. Norwalk Hospital and Danbury Hospital are the main teaching hospitals, with Danbury being the hub of the Global Health Program. The patients served represent a remarkable cross-section of economic, ethnic, racial and linguistic backgrounds. This diversity creates a particularly rich setting in which students participate in the care of patients, as they learn about how care is delivered in the complex U.S. health care system. 

Students will find strong commitment to excellent patient care, award-winning teaching, and a notably diverse patient population at the ����̽̽ Connecticut campus. This campus environment blends the best of traditional academic medical centers with community health care and serves as the site for the clerkship and advanced integration years. Connecticut campus students benefit from the same educational structure and learning goals as the Vermont campus, and they have successfully matched into their desired specialties over the length of this partnership. 

"Choosing the Connecticut campus as my clerkship site has been an essential part of my medical education. Through the sites in Danbury and Norwalk, I have been exposed to a wide diversity of patients from underrepresented groups and medical professionals willing to teach. Specifically, I've had the chance to serve low-income Hispanic and Brazilian communities where I could bridge the gap in care through a common language. These opportunities, as well as the wide array of options for food, travel, and connections with other medical students, have made the CT campus the best choice for me." - Joaquin Reategui, Class of 2024