A Perfect Match – Memories & Milestones
Part 11 – A Perfect Match
Penn State and the Medical Center benefit from their close ties to each other. The Medical Center budget is nearly one-third of Penn State’s total budget, employing nearly 9,000 people.
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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 at the Hershey Country Club.
You can view the complete list of student matches here.
Congratulations to all!
Pioneers in Simulation – Memories & Milestones
Part 10 – Pioneers in Simulation
The College of Medicine was an early adopter of clinical simulation.
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>> Take a video tour of the Penn State Hershey Clinical Simulation Center
The College Of Medicine – Memories & Milestones
Part 9 – The College Of Medicine
“It’s a leap of faith to come to a medical school that consists of a hole in the ground, and three doctors.” A fire breaks out during construction. The influence of the Department of Humanities on medical students is discussed.
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>> Visit med.psu.edu to learn more about the Penn State College of Medicine
Family Medicine – Memories & Milestones
Part 8 – Family Medicine
The first Department of Family Medicine in the United States started in the home of Dr. Thomas Leaman on Elm Avenue in Hershey, PA.
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Finding Good People – Memories & Milestones
Part 7 – Finding Good People
The challenges of recruiting clinical faculty in a rural setting are addressed. Dr. Harrell wanted people who were full of fire and wanted to build to come to Hershey.
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February 28, 2012 at 9:00 am pennstatemedicine Leave a comment
George T. Harrell – Memories & Milestones
Part 6 – George T. Harrell
Dr. George T. Harrell is selected to lead the creation of the medical center and school. This was Dr. Harrell’s second medical center project.
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Changing the concussion culture in the NFL
Robert Harbaugh, M.D., ’78 has a unique vantage point as a member of an NFL subcommittee studying the long-term effects of concussions on professional football players. First, Harbaugh is a well published and highly regarded neurosurgeon who serves as director of the Penn State Institute of the Neurosciences and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery. That’s the professional part.
Second, he’s lived the experience of watching his own son play football, and has a 12-year-old transitioning from flag to tackle football. That’s the parent perspective. Third, Harbaugh himself played football in high school and college, and suffered three concussions along the way. That’s the personal piece.
All three reasons have enticed him to serve—unpaid, with no perks, no Super Bowl tickets, and no chance to mingle with football legends—as chair of this NFL subcommittee, which is part of a larger committee established by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to study head and spine injuries in football players. Harbaugh’s group is charged with developing a comprehensive database that will gather and analyze information over time to help determine what factors lead to acute and delayed neurological injuries in NFL players. (more…)
Interview study designed to investigate association between mode of first delivery and subsequent fertility
Kristen Kjerulff, Ph.D.
Ongoing research at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center explores the effect of caesarian section on subsequent fertility. In previous studies conducted in countries throughout the world it was discovered that mothers who deliver by caesarian section are less likely to have subsequent children for reasons that are not clear. “This is a mystery that we need to understand,” said principal investigator Kristen H. Kjerulff, Ph.D. Most researchers in this subject area survey women retrospectively—after the birth has taken place—or review very large data sets that do not indicate the reasons why the caesarian section option was chosen and why the women did not have more children. Kjerulff’s First Baby Study is novel in that it interviews pregnant women before they have their first baby and then at multiple points over the course of a three-year period, to see how mode of first delivery (cesarean, instrumental, or vaginal) affects subsequent childbearing and, if so, why.
This study has enrolled more than 3,000 women from all parts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Kjerulff and her colleagues sought a diverse population across socioeconomic strata, racial and ethnic groups, and insured/uninsured populations. They recruited participants from hospital ob-gyn clinics; Nurse-Family Partnership programs; child birth education classes; low-income patient clinics; private ob-gyn practices; hospital tour groups; Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program offices; and Medicaid programs. Researchers from the various hospitals around the state helped enroll and consent women interested in participating in the study, reviewed data, and provided advice on various aspects of the study.
The Four Diamonds Fund – Memories & Milestones
Part 16 – The Four Diamonds Fund
Note: last week was Part 5, so this one seems out of synch. It is – intentionally. The 2012 THON event is this coming weekend so it seems appropriate to highlight this segment today:
Conquering childhood cancer becomes the focus of The Four Diamonds Fund. Penn State’s IFC Dance Marathon – THON – is the largest student-run philanthropy in the world, raising millions for The Four Diamonds Fund each year.
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>> Learn more about 2011 THON here, including photos from patients, families and dancers
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