Maine Medical Center is a teaching hospital, with a former affiliation with the University of Vermont College of Medicine since the late 1970s that ended in 2011 with the introduction of the Maine Track program at Tufts University School of Medicine. This program allows students from Maine, or those interested in practicing there, to complete the third and fourth year of their clerkships at MMC in Portland rather than Boston.[19] MMC also hosts a number of third year clerkships for students from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine.