Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center-State College Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a small, university-town family medicine program (six residents per year) based at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, PA, combining Penn State Health's academic infrastructure with a community hospital's clinical base and serving as the only residency program in the area. The curriculum uses a modified longitudinal integrated model with short, repeating rotation blocks designed to build faculty-resident and resident-patient continuity rather than the traditional block schedule, and it offers a distinct, ACGME-recognized Osteopathic Recognition track with dedicated OMT curriculum, workshops, and a utilization committee. The program emphasizes full-spectrum, comprehensive primary care for Centre County's semi-rural/college-town population, with sports medicine fellowship pathways available on-site or in Hershey, and values leadership, teamwork, compassion, and integrity in its trainees. Small class size is explicitly framed as enabling individualized faculty attention rather than research productivity, positioning this as a community-embedded, full-spectrum training environment rather than a research-intensive or subspecialty-pipeline program.