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MD Medicine at Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University, United States

Programme overview

The MD programme at Penn State College of Medicine is based at the Hershey campus beside Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, and aims to train humanistic, systems-ready physicians who are adaptive, critical thinking, collaborative and scholarly. A University Park Regional Campus offers an equivalent curriculum.

Faculty: Penn State College of Medicine  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: University Park, PA, United States

What you will study

The curriculum rests on four pillars: Health Humanities, Biomedical Sciences, Clinical Sciences and Health Systems Science. Core clinical clerkships begin toward the end of Year 2, and students serve as patient navigators from the first year. Options include Global Health Scholars, Rural Scholars, Accelerated and MD/PhD pathways.

Career pathways

Accelerated pathway students can match into a Penn State residency programme; MD/PhD prepares physician-scientists for biomedical research and academic medicine.

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Application information

Entry requirements

MD programme: no restriction on undergraduate major; applicants should be graduates, or on track to graduate, of accredited U.S. or Canadian colleges before matriculation. Prerequisites are expressed as required competencies, met through coursework or other activity such as research or work. The MCAT is required, and scores from the last three years before matriculation are considered.

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