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Welcome to the Penn State Hershey Internal Medicine
Residency Program.
Our tertiary care facility is nestled in central Pennsylvania
and serves as the referral center for the greater
Harrisburg area.
Hershey is a vibrant community and is conveniently
situated near a wide array of recreational and cultural
activities in Harrisburg, Washington, DC, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, and New York.
Our internal medicine residents receive excellent education
with great patient diversity in a collegial environment.
The hospital is a major referral center
for all of these other hospitals in the area,
in the entire middle chunk of Pennsylvania.
So not only are you going to be seeing the bread and butter
medicine, you'll be getting this huge diversity of cases.
Really, the kind of stuff I didn't even
dream of seeing when I was applying to residencies.
Just this incredible diversity of pathology.
And the way it interplays together from system
to system in the setting this every patient that you're
treating is really, really fascinating.
Hershey has been incredible in helping me achieve
my goals in all avenues.
So for me, we do a lot of in-patient time
and we do a lot of clinic.
The in-patient side, you get to tailor your curriculum outside
of wards to do electives that will help you with your career
choices.
So for me, I can spend more time working
with like adolescent youth.
I can do more clinic.
I can do more electives that are related to my future career.
And I can do all the research that I want in the same fields.
Well, I recently got accepted to the physician scientist
training program.
This implements the ABIM Pathway.
Essentially, I will have two years
of residency, 18 months of a dedicated fellowship.
And then three years that's 80% research and 20% patient care
involvement.
I'm very much aware of the research background
here at Penn State.
I'm aware about the leadership's focus
on expanding our research capabilities
and expanding our general medical research as well.
So I felt like my interests would be very much supported
here at Penn State.
The mentorship at Penn State Hershey
is wonderful because not only are the program
directors and assistant program directors there
to help further our academic goals, our clinical skills,
and our overall resident wellness,
but we have such great specialty programs.
Whether it's in the cardiology department or hematology
department, where we have advisors
who are offering us chances at research opportunities
and guidance in those specialty fields,
as well as fellowship options.
So it really provides the residents
with great opportunities to be able to grow,
not only in their personal life, their home life,
but as well as being clinicians and really good physicians.
What really struck me about coming at Penn State
was the value of education.
Really, the emphasis on education.
I walked away from my interview day really
just realizing how much they care about education.
They devote an entire half day of the week,
of an actual workweek, strictly to education.
They'll strip you of your pager.
They'll take away all patient responsibility.
And they'll say, this is your time to learn.
And you're excused from all clinic duties.
I didn't find that or see that anywhere else.
And that's the first thing that really struck me about how, I
think, amazing this program is.
Which is really why I decided to come here.
Whether you want to practice primary care, hospital
medicine, or enter one of the many sub-specialties available,
the Penn State Hershey Internal Medicine Residency Program
will prepare you to reach your career goals
and be a well-rounded physician.
Thank you for visiting our website.
And we look forward to receiving your application.