West Virginia University School of Medicine-Berkeley Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a newly launched (2025), community-based internal medicine residency hosted at Berkeley Medical Center, a 200-bed hospital with a 24-bed ICU and high-volume ED, situated within WVU School of Medicine's Eastern Campus in Martinsburg's Eastern Panhandle region. As the Eastern Campus's first GME-accredited residency at this site, the program is structured around four signature programs designed to target region-specific health concerns in West Virginia and Appalachia, reflecting a mission-driven, underserved-population focus rather than a tertiary/quaternary academic identity. Scholarly activity is embedded through an annual Eastern Campus research symposium spanning case reports, QI projects, and database-driven studies (including TriNetX-based work), with residents co-authoring alongside faculty and pathways to publication, though the program's youth means an established fellowship placement track record is not yet demonstrable. The program values trainees drawn to community-integrated, rural/underserved Appalachian medicine and appears to prize applicants willing to help build a growing program's identity and pipeline, including former WVU students returning to the region.