Mensagem do nosso DIO
Perseguir a sua paixão, não apenas a sua carreira
É sempre animador e encorajador ver uma nova geração de médicos iniciar as suas residências e bolsas de estudo no The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education. A jornada para se tornar um médico é um processo longo e árduo, cheio de entusiasmo e expetativa, mas também de muito trabalho duro.
I feel rejuvenated every year during the recruitment process as we interview numerous new physician candidates to fill the limited amount of positions we have available in our Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited graduate programs. It gives me great joy to engage with young doctors who are ready to take the next step in their careers and for me to learn about their goals, dreams and roles in this noble profession of medicine.
É um momento emocionante para mim quando partilho com aspirantes a médicos o caminho que escolhi para me tornar médica. Sou uma licenciada orgulhosa e apaixonada pelo The Wright Center - uma decisão que acabou por conduzir à minha gratificante carreira como Oficial Institucional Designada desta organização inovadora.
Our mission at The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education is to improve the health and welfare of our communities through responsive, whole-person health services for all and the sustainable renewal of an inspired, competent workforce that is privileged to serve.
Our history goes back nearly a half century. Since 1976, The Wright Center has been educating physicians and interprofessional students while providing affordable, high-quality whole-person primary health services locally – starting with our predecessor organization, the Scranton-Temple Residency Program. Our humble beginnings included six internal medicine residents training annually. Today, we have more than 670 employees, including around 200 resident and fellow physicians.
As one of the nation’s largest Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-funded Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortiums, The Wright Center integrates patient care delivery, workforce development, and innovation to be the leading model of primary health care in America.
Cumprimos apaixonadamente a nossa missão aqui no Nordeste da Pensilvânia em nos nossos centros de saúde comunitários e parceiros clínicos regionais que servem principalmente pacientes nos condados de Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wayne e Wyoming, e também em comunidades em todo o país através das nossas parcerias nacionais em Washington, Arizona, Ohio e Washington, D.C., e redes de aprendizagem com Centros de Saúde Federalmente Qualificados.
In 2019, HRSA designated The Wright Center for Community Health as a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike, providing additional resources that allow our community health centers to further assist medically underserved rural and urban communities and vulnerable populations, including people who are underinsured and uninsured. Our community health centers, and local and national relationships enable our physician learners to gain hands-on experiences with various patient populations.
Those community health centers further reduce barriers to care by following the Patient-Centered Medical Home model, which provides integrated access to medical, dental, behavioral health, addiction and recovery, and infectious disease services at a single location. In the 2023-2024 fiscal year, The Wright Center recorded nearly 140,000 patient visits, including more than 33,000 unique patients, over 7,000 dental patients, and more than 4,000 people seeking mental and behavioral health services.
In addition, Pennsylvania designated The Wright Center for Community Health as an Opioid Use Disorder Center of Excellence in 2016 – one of about 50 centers in the commonwealth. Its related Healthy Maternal Opiate Medical Support Program, more commonly known as Healthy MOMS, involves dozens of committed partner organizations working together to empower women who are faced with the dual challenge of raising a baby and coping with a substance use disorder. We also offer Lifestyle Medicine, Obesity Medicine, an Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program, and a Ryan White HIV Clinic, the latter of which serves about 500 patients across seven counties. Our 34-foot mobile medical and dental unit, better known as Driving Better Health, improves access to care by establishing community clinics that enable clinical staff to see patients where they live, work, study, and play.
Por missão e conceção, estamos comprometidos com a educação médica de pós-graduação, com o atendimento ao paciente e com o impacto de mudanças positivas nas comunidades que servimos em todo o país. O Wright Center é o programa para si se procura mais do que um programa de residência - um programa no qual pode transmitir os seus conhecimentos e competências para a melhoria da nossa honrosa profissão e daqueles que pretendemos servir.
Obrigado,
