To our applicants:

The Drexel University COM/HUH Family Medicine Residency Program is a great place to continue your education and receive broad-based training that will help you to reach your potential as an excellent Family Physician.

Our program takes the best opportunities for education from the wealth of resources we have in our area, and couples them with outstanding, energetic faculty who are dedicated to teaching our residents and fostering their growth. Our residents and faculty truly work as a team; in fact we share the same patient panel in our outpatient office, located in vibrant Manayunk and equipped with an EMR. At this office we see a wide variety of patients, which enables our residents to learn not only about diseases and disease processes, but also about how situations will affect patients differently depending on their background, socioeconomic status, insurance type, ethnicity, and many other factors. The residents are viewed as partners and we care for patients like a large group practice.

Our faculty have a wide range of professional interests and expertise including medical informatics, medical humanities, care of the underserved, geriatrics, women’s health, and sports medicine. While our goal is to help you to be the best Family Physician, we also care about the individual as well as the physician. Our faculty are invested in our residents as people and we have many social events together as a group.

Hospitals that are included for training during your residency are Hahnemann University Hospital and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. Hahnemann, our core hospital, is a tertiary care facility with multiple other residency and fellowship programs. Our Family Medicine inpatient service and many subspecialty rotations are conducted at Hahnemann, which gives our residents the chance to work alongside residents from other specialties while learning up-to-date, evidence-based medicine from specialists who care about teaching and resident education. St. Christopher’s is an internationally renowned pediatric hospital where our residents rotate on the inpatient service and emergency room, providing another excellent educational opportunity for our residents to learn from the best in the field.

The residency program also serves as a main site for the medical school student clerkships of Drexel University College of Medicine, and the entire department is very involved in teaching at the medical school. In addition to the residency outpatient office in Manayunk, our department has clinical office sites in Warminister, a suburb of Philadelphia, and at the Student Health Center on the undergraduate campus of Drexel University. Our group serves as school physicians and team physicians for several area high schools and two NCAA Division I universities.

As you can see, we strive to give our residents the best educational opportunity from which they can become leaders in Family Medicine. We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated residents to join us.

I would be happy to answer any questions you may have, and I look forward to welcoming you as colleagues in Family Medicine!

Sincerely,

David Berkson, M.D., FAAFP
Program Director, Drexel University College of Medicine/HUH Family Medicine Residency