Welcome to Penn State Hershey Faculty Orientation
We are pleased that you have selected the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine as a place to expand and develop your professional career. This site is designed to direct you to the resources and information that are essential to your professional responsibilities.
See First Things for the activities that you must complete during your first days in your new position.
To learn more about getting started in each of the four missions, see Clinical Practice, Education, Research or Community Outreach.
The site also provides links to policies and procedures, institutional resources, programs for career development, and information about life at Penn State and in Hershey. We offer many opportunities and resources to guide and support you on your successful journey with us.
Please use the feedback form if you have questions about Penn State Hershey or if you have suggestions to improve this website (e.g., information that is missing or difficult to find).
The Faculty Orientation website was developed by Ananya Das (Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation) as a product of her Team Fellowship Project.
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Bariatric surgery restores nerve cell properties altered by diet
Understanding how gastric bypass surgery changes the properties of nerve cells that help regulate the digestive system could lead to new treatments that produce the same results without surgery, according to Penn State College of Medicine scientists, who have shown how surgery restores some properties of nerve cells that tell people their stomachs are full.More...
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Penn State College of Medicine awarded $1 million AMA grant
Penn State College of Medicine has been awarded a prestigious $1 million grant by the American Medical Association as part of a program aimed at transforming the way the physicians of tomorrow are trained.More...
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Penn State Hershey entrepreneurs win first 'startup boot camp' awards
Dr. Joseph Sassani, ophthalmologist at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and professor of ophthalmology and pathology at Penn State College of Medicine, is the winner of The TechCelerator@Hershey’s inaugural Eight Week Boot Camp program for promising entrepreneurs.More...
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Collaborative Hershey and University Park medical service trip
This spring brought the first collaborative spring break service trip for University Park undergraduates and Hershey medical students and physicians.More...