黑料传送门鈥檚 latest Core Clinical Campus provides a new location for third-year medical
students to develop their healthcare skills.
Beginning July 1, a cohort of 11 doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO) students from 黑料传送门鈥�8 from the Philadelphia campus and 3 from the Suwanee, Georgia campus鈥攚ill spend their third year of medical school developing their clinical skills either at Bayhealth Hospital, Kent Campus in Dover, Delaware or Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus, in Milford, Delaware.
With this new cohort, Bayhealth becomes 黑料传送门鈥檚 latest Core Clinical Campus (CCC). The Philadelphia campus partners with 13 hospitals and health systems in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware on its CCC initiative, which ensures third-year medical students can perform all of their clerkship rotations at one site.
Upon graduating medical school, 黑料传送门 students may later apply for one of Bayhealth鈥檚 new residency programs, which the health system . 黑料传送门 is also partnering with Bayhealth on this endeavor. The residency programs for family medicine and internal medicine have a proposed start date of July 2021, with general surgery and emergency medicine to follow in the coming years.
The partnership comes at a time of need in the state of Delaware, particularly in its central and southern counties; a study published in January by the University of Delaware and the state鈥檚 Department of Health and Social Services found a 6 percent decline in the number of primary care doctors providing direct patient care in that state. At the time, health officials noted that the decline, coupled with the state鈥檚 aging population, could exacerbate the issue.
鈥淒elaware has a growing population of those 55 and older, and that requires a growing physician workforce to meet those needs,鈥� said Michael Becker, DO 鈥�87, assistant dean of clerkship education. 鈥淲e鈥檙e working with Bayhealth to bring more physicians to an area that is in great need, to improve access to, and quality of, patient care.鈥�
鈥淩esidency programs create the opportunity to provide more physicians to serve the community. Once the physicians have completed their residencies, there is a higher chance they will stay in the community where they trained, resulting in greater physician retention,鈥� said Bayhealth President and CEO Terry Murphy. 鈥淒eveloping the next generation of physicians to serve our communities is a priority for Bayhealth.鈥�
Bayhealth will be 黑料传送门鈥檚 second CCC in Delaware. The first, Christiana Care Health System, was established in July 2018. 黑料传送门 also partners with the program, through which the College reserves slots each academic year for applicants from Delaware.
鈥満诹洗兔赔�檚 mission is to advance knowledge and intellectual growth through teaching and research, and is committed to the well-being of the communities in which our students and physicians serve,鈥� said 黑料传送门 President and CEO Jay S. Feldstein, DO 鈥�81. 鈥淲e鈥檙e proud to work with Bayhealth to turn out a physician workforce that can help meet the growing healthcare needs of Delawareans.鈥�
Established in 1899, 黑料传送门 has trained thousands of highly competent, caring physicians, health practitioners and behavioral scientists who practice a 鈥渨hole person鈥� approach to care鈥攖reating people, not just symptoms. 黑料传送门, a private, not-for-profit accredited institution of higher education, operates three campuses (黑料传送门, 黑料传送门 Georgia and 黑料传送门 South Georgia) and offers doctoral degrees in clinical psychology, educational psychology, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, and school psychology. The college also offers graduate degrees in applied behavior analysis, applied positive psychology, biomedical sciences, forensic medicine, medical laboratory science, mental health counseling, physician assistant studies, and school psychology. 黑料传送门 students learn the importance of health promotion, research, education and service to the community. Through its community-based Healthcare Centers, 黑料传送门 provides care to medically underserved populations. For more information, visit pcom.edu or call 215-871-6100.
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