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2012 Match Day for medical students
March 16, 2012 marked another milestone for Penn State College of Medicine medical students. Reactions to opening their residency match envelopes are captured in this brief video from the ceremony held...
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Scholarships and awards contribute to one student’s success
Originally from Wilkes-Barre, PA, attended Dickinson College and graduated with honors with a degree in chemistry and biochemistry/molecular biology. She is a first-generation college student who has...
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Class of 2016 White Coat Ceremony
Students from the Penn State College of Medicine‘s Class of 2016 officially began their medical careers last Friday with a White Coat Ceremony at the Hershey Lodge. During this annual rite of passage...
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Physician lack of sleep: Can cognitive “overload” compromise care in a crisis?
For decades, lack of sleep and fatigue have been an unwelcome but accepted part of physician training and everyday medical practice. Medical students and residents are likely to work a full day and...
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Paz reports on highlights of Medical Center’s fiscal year
Highlights from across all four parts of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center’s mission were at the center of this week’s annual public board of directors meeting. Dr. Harold L. Paz, CEO of Penn...
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A comic look at important issues in medicine and medical training
This week, the Annals of Internal Medicine published a graphic narrative by Penn State College of Medicine professor Dr. Michael Green. It marks the first time a clinically oriented medical journal has...
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Meeting their Match: Anticipation and excitement surround Match Day 2013
“There’s a lot of tension. You go on eighteen or nineteen interviews at all these different places all over the county. You don’t really know what’s going to happen. Then there’s one envelope that...
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Profile: The road of life leads College of Medicine student to Hershey
Penn State Hershey used to be a place of grief for Meagan Horst. It was the place she went to say goodbye to her father when he died of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma at the age of 44. Fourteen years old, she...
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Medical student reflects on collaborative Hershey and University Park medical...
This spring brought the first collaborative spring break service trip for University Park undergraduates and Penn State Hershey medical students and physicians. From March 2 to 9, the team of two...
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Initiative prepares Penn State medical students to care for veterans
Several events focusing on veterans and military medicine will take place on the Penn State Hershey campus to celebrate Joining Forces Wellness Week, in partnership with the American Association of...
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Medical student asks the right questions and finishes second on recent...
Each of the past three or four years, second-year medical student Johnna Mahoney took a timed, 50-question online qualification test to see if she could advance toward becoming a contestant on...
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Story Update: MountCrest University School breaks ground on Medical School
Editor’s Note: Penn State Medicine highlighted the relationship between Penn State College of Medicine and Ghana’s MountCrest University School in January. The College of Medicine’s Dr. Ben Fredrick...
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Novel academic program uses medical students as patient navigators
Penn State College of Medicine is nearing the end of the inaugural year of its Systems Navigation Curriculum (SyNC) that embeds first-year medical students into the healthcare system as patient...
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