In 1963, the
M. S. Hershey Foundation offered $50 million to the
Pennsylvania State University to establish a
medical school and
teaching hospital in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Penn State Health Penn State Health was formed in 2014 to consolidate health care providers in the area. In 2015, it acquired St. Joseph Regional Health Network in
Berks County from
Catholic Health Initiatives.
Statistics , the Penn State College of Medicine has graduated 3,907 physicians (M.D.) and 1,004 scientists with Ph.D. or M.S. degrees. The College of Medicine offers degree programs in
anatomy,
bioengineering,
biomedical sciences,
bioinformatics and
genomics,
genetics,
immunology and
infectious diseases, integrative
biosciences,
molecular medicine, molecular toxicology,
neuroscience,
pharmacology, and
physiology. Two postdoctoral programs leading to an M.S. degree are offered, namely in Laboratory Animal Medicine, the only such program in
Pennsylvania, and Public Health Sciences.
LionCare student-run free clinic Since 2001, the students of the College of Medicine have operated a free clinic for the underserved of Central Pennsylvania. The clinic is called
LionCare and is based out of the Bethesda Mission, a homeless shelter, in midtown
Harrisburg, PA. It has specialized has clinics for
Women's Health,
Orthopedics,
Neurology,
Psychiatry and
Dermatology. The clinic is staffed and serviced by the students of the college, under the supervision of faculty physicians. == References ==