Geisinger Health System Program

Program Identity & Fit

Geisinger's Med-Peds program is a rural, tertiary-referral academic program built around integrated adult and pediatric hospitals on a single Danville campus, serving as the referral center for northern Pennsylvania and southern New York with a broad catchment that offsets its relatively homogeneous local demographics. The curriculum emphasizes continuity of care through a four-year longitudinal patient panel at a dedicated Med-Peds clinic staffed by Med-Peds-trained preceptors, extensive upper-level schedule flexibility allowing residents to tailor training toward primary care, hospital medicine, or fellowship, and a structured "Med-Peds Mondays" didactic system built on clinical mastery, simulation, and journal club. Research is well-resourced institutionally (IIRO support, 25+ years of EHR data, MyCode genomic biobank, health-system claims data) though outcomes show a fairly even split between primary care, hospitalist, and fellowship-bound graduates, indicating research is available and encouraged rather than uniformly pursued. The program explicitly foregrounds a close-knit, "family atmosphere" culture, mentorship through structured check-ins and near-peer relationships, and a mission of training versatile physician-leaders comfortable with complex, chronic, and transition-of-care patients in a rural/underserved-adjacent setting.