莱特医学研究生教育中心（Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education Regional Family Medicine Residency）任命斯蒂芬妮-A-吉尔（Stephanie A. Gill）博士为医学研究生教育认证委员会（Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education）认可项目的项目主任。
Gill 是一名注册全科医师，Shickshinny 人，毕业于西北地区高中。自 2022 年以来，她一直担任住院医师培训项目的医师教员和项目副主任。她在 Wright Center for Community Health 威尔克斯-巴里诊所为各年龄段的成人和儿童提供初级医疗服务。
Gill is a member of the American Association of Family Physicians, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and Family Medicine Education Consortium. She is on the board of directors for the Pennsylvania Coalition for Oral Health, the chairperson of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Oral Health Collaborative, and a steering committee member of Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum.
赖特中心是美国卫生资源与服务管理局资助的全美最大的教学保健中心研究生医学教育联盟之一。它提供家庭医学、内科、物理医学与康复和精神病学四个学科的住院医师培训，以及心血管疾病、肠胃病学和老年医学的研究员培训。所有课程均通过了美国研究生医学教育认证委员会（Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education）的认证。
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education welcomed 51 new resident physicians into its regional residency programs after achieving a 100% match on National Match Day for aspiring doctors.
The National Resident Matching Program’s Match Day is held annually on the third Friday of March. Medical students nation- and worldwide simultaneously learn at which U.S. residency program they will train for the next three to seven years. It is one of the most important and competitive processes in the medical school experience.
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education looks forward to Match Day each year as it learns which medical school graduates will continue their training in its Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited, comprehensive, and community-focused residency programs in Northeast Pennsylvania. The Wright Center is one of the largest Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-funded Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Consortiums in the country, with more than 245 physicians in training.
The Wright Center matched residents in the following regional programs: Family Medicine Residency (13); Internal Medicine Residency (33); and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency (5). Resident physicians will begin the first year of their residencies on July 1 in Scranton.
The incoming first-year residents hail from 13 countries: Bahrain (1); Canada (6); China (1); India (9); Nepal (3); Pakistan (12); Philippines (2); Saint Lucia (1); Saudi Arabia (1); Serbia (1); Uganda (1); United Kingdom (1); and the United States (12).
The residency programs received 5,072 applications and interviewed 516 candidates, or about 10.17% of the applicants. The National Resident Matching Program makes residency matches, using a mathematical algorithm to pair graduating medical students with open training positions at teaching health centers, educational consortia, hospitals, and other institutions across the U.S. The model considers the top choices of both students and residency programs.
“Match Day is one of the most exciting days of the academic year and a celebration to welcome our new residents,” said Jumee Barooah, M.D., designated institutional official and senior vice president of education at The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education. “For the residents, the day represents the culmination of years of hard work and perseverance that began at an early age. For The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, it marks another milestone in meeting our mission.”
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education was established in 1976 as the Scranton-Temple Residency Program, a community-based internal medicine residency. Today, The Wright Center is one of the nation’s largest HRSA-funded Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortiums. Together with consortium stakeholders, The Wright Center trains residents and fellows in a community-based, community-needs-responsive workforce development model to advance their shared mission to provide whole-person primary health services regardless of their insurance status, ZIP code, or ability to pay.
The Wright Center offers ACGME accredited residencies in three disciplines – family medicine, internal medicine, and physical medicine & rehabilitation – as well as fellowships in cardiovascular disease, gastroenterology, and geriatrics.
在华盛顿特区举行的全国社区卫生中心协会政策与问题论坛的临床实践委员会会议上，莱特社区卫生和医学研究生教育中心总裁兼首席执行官琳达-托马斯-赫马克（Linda Thomas-Hemak）博士（中）荣获年度家乡学者倡导者奖、左为莱特医学研究生教育中心（The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education）董事会成员，右为亚利桑那州斯蒂尔大学骨科医学院（A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine）大学合作副总裁加里-克劳德（Gary L. Cloud）博士、工商管理硕士。该奖项旨在表彰托马斯-赫马克博士为发掘和指导宾夕法尼亚州东北部未来的内科医生、牙医、医生助理和其他医疗保健专业人士所做的充满激情和使命感的努力。
Dr. Linda Thomas-Hemak, president and CEO of The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, recently received the Hometown Scholars Advocate of the Year award in recognition of her passionate, mission-driven efforts to identify and mentor future physicians, dentists, physician assistants, and other health care professionals who are from Northeast Pennsylvania.
Dr. Thomas received the award on Sunday, Feb. 11, during a clinical practice committee meeting at the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) Policy & Issues Forum in Washington, D.C.
The Hometown Scholars program is a collaborative effort between NACHC and A.T. Still University. The program was established to identify and recruit individuals from areas served by community health centers to pursue professional degrees and become community-minded healers, including physicians, dentists, and physician assistants, who are inclined to return to work in those or similar medically underserved communities in the United States.
“The National Association of Community Health Centers and A.T. Still University have a strategy to dare children to dream, mentor them along their pathway into the health professions, and endorse those with the heart to return and work in underserved communities,” said Gary L. Cloud, Ph.D., MBA, vice president of university partnerships at A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona. “Dr. Thomas-Hemak and The Wright Center have been exemplary supporters of that strategy encouraging community members, patients, and employees to participate and serve as role models for aspiring healers.”
At participating community health centers, leaders are encouraged to intentionally identify and nominate qualified and motivated premedical, predental, and pre-health professional candidates from their communities for Hometown Scholars Program consideration, providing each with a letter of support. This endorsement, in turn, may give the candidate advanced applicant consideration when applying to medical school or dental school at A.T. Still University’s programs in Arizona or its physician assistant program in California.
“It’s been a privilege for me, on behalf of The Wright Center for Community Health, to nominate individuals from Northeast Pennsylvania to be our health center’s endorsed Hometown Scholars,” said Thomas-Hemak. “Because of the Hometown Scholars program, we’ve been able to identify and mentor aspiring physicians, dentists, and physician assistants from the communities we serve and help them pursue their professional goals. Such pipeline programs promote career access and they restore our community’s public health-minded health care workforce.
“I’m particularly pleased that many of The Wright Center-endorsed scholars are women for whom this program has provided real opportunities,” she added.
For The Wright Center, its years-long participation in the Hometown Scholars program represents another way it works to sustain and grow a pipeline for primary care workforce development in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre region, supporting career growth for people who have knowledge about and interest in serving low-income and other traditionally underserved populations.
To learn more and nominate someone to be a Wright Center-endorsed Hometown Scholar, please call its Office of Clerkships at 570-591-5116 or visit TheWrightCenter.org/hometown-scholars.
莱特社区卫生中心（The Wright Center for Community Health）在拉克瓦纳县的两家初级和预防性医疗机构最近因提供高质量、以患者为中心的医疗服务而受到美国国家质量保证委员会（NCQA）的表彰。
Wright Center for Community Health Clarks Summit Practice（位于阿宾顿镇北部大道 1145 号）和 The Wright Center for Community Health Mid Valley Practice（位于杰明市华盛顿大道 5 号）再次获得 NCQA 的 "以患者为中心的医疗之家 "认证，这表明它们拥有在正确的时间为患者提供正确护理的工具、系统和资源。
NCQA is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. Its Patient-Centered Medical Home program reflects the input of the American College of Physicians, the American Osteopathic Association, and others. It was developed to assess whether clinician practices are functioning as medical homes and recognize them for these efforts.
"Wright Center for Community Health 首席医疗与信息官 Jignesh Sheth 博士说："我们很荣幸能在四家规模较大的诊所保留这一认可印章。"NCQA 印章让公众知道，我们正竭尽全力将患者放在医疗服务的最前沿，包括在传统营业时间外开放这些诊所，以满足人们的初级保健需求。
