Welcome to our Residency Program

The challenge and the joy of family medicine is that it drives physicians to achieve mastery of a broad range of knowledge so that patients can rely on them to provide comprehensive care in any setting.

The design of Penn State/The Good Samaritan Hospital Family and Community Medicine Residency Program ensures that graduates achieve this high standard. Residents work side-by-side with a diverse group of academic and community attending physicians specializing in the full range of disciplines, and also provide continuity outpatient care at one of four family medicine centers within rural, suburban and urban underserved communities. All of our outpatient clinics are officially designated Patient-Centered Medical Homes.

Twenty-five family physicians serve as residency faculty members, and residents have the opportunity to interact with more than eighty family physicians—ten based at Good Samaritan Hospital and more than sixty at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. This large pool of family physicians allows the residents to access great educational resources and learning opportunities.

Patient care at Penn State Hershey Medical Center is second to none. Residents join a complement of 540 residents and fellows in a rigorous and rewarding residency training experience.

The Good Samaritan Health System is dedicated to providing care to all members of the Lebanon community. It is a not-for-profit institution with a reputation for compassion and quality. As the only residents working inside this hospital, family medicine residents are known and respected by the medical, nursing, and ancillary staff.

The inpatient services where our residents work at both hospitals is supervised entirely by our program’s family physician attendings. Because residents train in both an academic medical center and a community hospital, they learn from a diverse set of patients and educational styles and are prepared to practice in a broad spectrum of health care settings after graduation.