Geisinger Health System Wilkes Barre Program

Program Identity & Fit

Geisinger Northeast is a new, inaugural academic-community emergency medicine residency built around a competency-based, individualized curriculum with progressive resident autonomy in the senior years. Training spans two contrasting sites: Geisinger Wyoming Valley, a Level 1 trauma, comprehensive stroke and STEMI tertiary referral center with over 50,000 annual visits, and Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre, a high-volume inner-city ED serving underserved and pediatric populations, giving residents exposure across the full acuity and social-complexity spectrum. The program explicitly frames itself as preparing graduates for any of community practice, fellowship, or academic careers rather than steering toward one path, and emphasizes leadership development, health equity, and a dedicated well-being infrastructure. As an inaugural class, it offers residents the unusual opportunity to help shape program culture and curriculum alongside faculty rather than stepping into an established structure.