I'm Ryan Munyon.
I'm the inpatient APD for hospitalist medicine.
So I'm Eliana Hempel.
I am the ambulatory associate program director.
Hi, I'm Alia Chisty.
I'm the new program director for the Penn State
internal medicine residency program.
Hi, I'm Andrew Tinsley.
I'm the associate program director for research
and scholarly activity.
There's something very unique about Penn State.
We have almost every single post-internal-medicine
fellowship training program available at our institution.
We have a lot of exciting research happening
in every division.
We have a lot of exposure and a lot of opportunities
for residents who come here to learn.
They've got a chance to come to a place
that, again, outside of the hospital
is really nice to sort of live and work
with tremendously nice people.
And a lot of the barriers that sometimes
are placed in other programs, they don't exist here.
And so you can-- if you really want,
you can do great things here.
People told me that Hershey is the sweetest place on earth.
And I always say this, because it's true.
That was the thing that I noticed most
when I interviewed here for my own faculty position.
People are so thoughtful, so kind, so considerate.
This place generates a feeling of family, of collegiality,
of teamwork, of kindness and empathy.
And I think you want to work someplace
you want to come to work every day,
because you know your colleagues are kind.
And you know that the kind of care that's getting
provided every single day to the patients
is coming truly from the heart.
And I can't think of a better place or a better way
to feel joy in the job that I do than to be
in a place like Penn State.
Our residents get to see a really wide breadth
of pathology.
And they get exposure to kind of every different
bread-and-butter condition, to the zebras as well.
I think you come here because you're looking for a desire
to change the entire medical system for the better.
You know, we focus a lot on systems training
and systems thinking and improvement
within the entire medical system.
And if you're looking to make medical care better in America,
I think this is an institution that would
help you deliver on that goal.
Having gone through our program, I
can personally attest to the quality of education
that the residents receive here.
But not only that, I think working with faculty
in the department that really prioritizes education
very highly is not something that you
find at every institution.
And so I think having an opportunity to stay on faculty
has been a really great experience for me.
And I've continued to watch the Penn State health system just
grow in a really positive way.
When you round with me, we're doing bedside rounding.
And I get to see you function as a complete working physician.
So instead of just reading to me at a table
in some closed-off room far away from where the care is actually
happening, we go to the patient's bedside.
We incorporate the patient into the plan.
And I get to see you translate that
into patient-centered language.
I get to see you incorporate the patient's desires and feedback
about the plan into the plan, reintroduce it, and remold it
as we're actually talking.
And that's what actual physician work is.
And so when you round with me, that's
the type of training that you're getting
is me giving you feedback on being an actual physician.
And so I love to get to know the residents as who they are.
But then I also want to know how I
can help you to be better and successful in the way
that you want to be in your own personal growth
throughout the course of residency program.
And I will work with you.
We'll try and get you the resources that you need.
We'll individualize your growth during residency
so that you're able to graduate to do whatever it is that you
want to do once you graduate.
There'll be a lot of one-on-one attention along the way
and mentoring to make sure that everybody gets what they need.
I think one of the things I love most about them
is that they prioritize patient care over everything
else, which allows them to develop
really strong relationships with their patients,
both in the inpatient and outpatient setting.
So you see our residents when they
graduate being able to really navigate
the entire spectrum of care, from outpatient
through the complications, into a hospitalization
and back out again.
Their willingness to meet the patients where
they are and really put their patients' needs
first is fantastic and a lot of fun
to watch as a faculty member.