Educating Compassionate, Skilled Physicians
Committed to the Communities They Serve
The WRIGHT Choice
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education (TWCGME) is affiliated with The Wright Center for Community Health, the cornerstone ambulatory care delivery service organization of our Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortium (GME-SNC).
Our GME-SNC is one of the largest in the nation, funded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). It addresses the national primary care physician workforce shortage and misdistribution and related health and health care disparities by force-multiplying the impact of nondiscriminatory primary care health services delivery, workforce development, and public health by optimizing public and private clinical revenues.
Together with consortium stakeholders, The Wright Center trains primary care residents and fellows in a community-based, community-needs-responsive workforce development model to improve the health and welfare of our communities through inclusive and responsive health services and the sustainable renewal of an inspired, competent workforce that is privileged to serve.
Physicians within our Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited residency and fellowship programs are immersed in diverse inpatient and outpatient health care settings where they are most needed, increasing the likelihood of them working throughout rural and other medically underserved areas such as underresourced urban neighborhoods after completing their training. Our residents and fellows are empowered and expected to lead community-responsive care innovations throughout their years of training.
Our physician learners gain hands-on experience with diverse and medically underserved populations at our affiliated Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike Teaching Health
Center locations and a school-based health clinic known collectively as The Wright Center for Community Health.
The Wright Center’s care teams are privileged to provide nondiscriminatory, affordable, high-quality, whole-person health services in our clinical learning environments, allowing them the opportunity to address the social determinants of health – the conditions that affect the health and well-being of people where they live, learn, work, and play.
As a leader in delivering whole-person primary health services in a nine-county area in Northeast Pennsylvania, The Wright Center treated more than 30,000 patients during more than 140,000 patient visits in the 2022-23 fiscal year. We specialize in providing a continuum of care for our patients, from pediatrics to geriatrics.
The Wright Center is headquartered in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and operates 10 community health centers, including a mobile medical and dental vehicle called Driving Better Health. The regional locations offer integrated whole-person care, meaning patients typically have the convenience of going to a single location to access medical, dental, and behavioral health, as well as community-based addiction treatment and recovery services.
Our passionate purpose is to create transformational care teams of leaders who empower patients, families, and communities to own and optimize their health. Do you want to learn more about medicine that can improve community health and launch your career?
Make The WRIGHT choice and contact us today at gmerecruitment@TheWrightCenter.org.
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Pursue Your Passion Not Just Your Career
Residencies Internal Medicine
Our Internal Medicine Residency program is our longest-running and largest training program. We welcomed our first class of residents on July 1, 1977, and we now train more than 100 physicians annually. This three-year ACGMEaccredited Internal Medicine Residency provides rigorous, broad-based clinical training that emphasizes community medicine, managing long-term illnesses, transitional care, and guiding patients through complex, chronic conditions.
ERAS ACGME ID: 1404121390 NRMP ID: 3056140M0
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) is available in partnership with one of the nation’s oldest and most respected physical rehabilitation centers, Allied Services Integrated Health System and Northeastern Rehabilitation Associates.
The PM&R Residency is accredited by the ACGME. The four-year residency provides extensive training in various clinical settings for the evidence-based diagnosis, care, and treatment for patients of all ages whose disabilities are lifelong conditions or resulted from a minor injury or devastating trauma. Residents learn under experienced physician supervision in PM&R, neurology, and occupational medicine.
TWCGME offers a categorical track for this residency program.
ERAS ACGME ID: 3404100001 NRMP ID: 3056340C0
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Fellowships
Cardiovascular Disease
Fellows in the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship train in community-based settings where they are immersed in various organizational cultures, electronic medical record systems, and team dynamics to prepare them to practice in future health care systems. During their three years in the fellowship, fellows train one-on-one with globally and nationally recognized, board-certified cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons. Fellows develop patient-provider relationships just as they would in their own medical practice. Our distinguished volunteer faculty are passionate about training the next generation of worldclass cardiologists.
ERAS ACGME ID: 141412291 NRMP ID: 3056141F0
Gastroenterology
The Gastroenterology Fellowship enhances the care of patients in Northeast Pennsylvania who are facing gastrointestinal disorders and strengthens the local workforce dedicated to this specialty. Fellows gain experience in both inpatient and outpatient gastroenterology and hepatology, including mastery of procedural skills. Gastroenterology fellows are immersed in the community through active engagement in The Wright Center for Community Health practices, providing treatment to patients with hepatitis C.
ERAS ACGME ID: 1444114221 NRMP ID: 3056144F0
Geriatrics
The population of our country’s older individuals continues to grow as baby boomers hit senior citizen status. In the counties we serve in Northeast Pennsylvania, senior citizens comprise about 27.7% of the population. Our one-year Geriatric Fellowship emphasizes quality of care and the deep understanding of socioeconomic determinants of health to develop competent, compassionate geriatricians. We follow the Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms Framework for patient care — measuring What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility for our growing senior population.
ERAS ACGME ID: 1514114136 NRMP ID: 3056151F0
Requirements
• Completion of the ERAS application form
• Personal statement explaining your interest in the program to which you are applying
• Medical school transcripts
• Three clinical letters of recommendation (must be dated within a year)
• Photograph
• USMLE/COMLEX transcript (preferred passage on first attempt)
• Current Curriculum Vitae
• Medical school graduation (with a preferred date within five years)
• A copy of your valid ECFMG certificate if an international medical graduate
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Research & Scholarly Work
In accordance with ACGME common program requirements, as well as the spirit of academic medicine, The Wright Center provides a robust research curriculum brought to life through the research opportunities that we provide to our residents and the scholarly work they produce.
A core belief of The Wright Center is that it takes far more than medical knowledge to create the next generation of physician leaders. Our research curriculum has application in all ACGME and American Optometric Association areas of competence.
Our residents acquire the skills needed to contribute to respected literature and thereby come to appreciate its intrinsic value in practice and quality of care. In teaching our residents the skills necessary for evidence-based research, The Wright Center shapes curiosity into an appreciation for lifelong learning. By graduation, each resident has learned to fuse quality improvement evidence with practice-based learning – the driving force for which all research is initiated and investigated.
Scholarly Activity leadership roles have been created for residents and fellows to fill who are experienced in research, presentation, publication, and other forms of scholarship. These leaders act as liaisons between the resident and fellow body, program faculty, and Graduate Medical Education administration to support the development and sharing of scholarly activity at TWCGME. The committee currently consists of one chief resident of scholarly activity and three scholarly activity leaders.
Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortium Model
Founded in 1976 as the Scranton-Temple Residency Program, TWCGME educates residents, fellows, and interprofessional students while providing nondiscriminatory, high-quality, affordable primary health services through our clinical settings in communities that need them most. Those humble beginnings included six internal medicine residents. Today, we have more than 650 employees, including about 250 resident and fellow physicians.
Our nonprofit Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortium sponsoring institution is affiliated with community partners and hospitals in Northeast Pennsylvania.
Our model follows the national Beyond Flexner movement that is focused on developing community-minded health professionals who are active agents of equitable health care, and was designed to address our nation’s health care workforce shortages and misdistribution.
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Fellow physician Dr. Fouzia Oza received the Presidential Poster Award and Outstanding Poster Presenter recognition at The American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, in October 2022.
Our Primary Health Centers
School-Based
Scranton, PA
Mid Valley Jermyn, PA
South Abington Twp., PA
Training Sites
Our residents and fellows train in a diverse portfolio of clinical learning environments throughout Lackawanna and Luzerne counties in Northeast Pennsylvania. We have strong affiliations with Commonwealth Health, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and Geisinger Health System.
Scranton, PA
Wilkes-Barre
Wilkes-Barre, PA
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Clarks Summit
Scranton
North Scranton
Scranton, PA
Scranton Counseling Center
PA
Driving Better Health
Our 12-person passenger van
PA
Hawley,
Covington Twp., PA
Scranton,
North Pocono
Hawley
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Resident and Fellow Physician Demographics
8 Race Code Description Number Percent of Total Asian 177 70% Black/African American 11 4.3% Hispanic or Latino 3 1.2% Two or more Nationalities 6 2.4% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 1 .4% White/Caucasian 50 19.7% Not Identified 5 2% Total Residents/Fellows 253 100%
Residents 70% 19.7% 0.4% 2.4% 1.2% 4.3% Asian White/Caucasian Two or more Nationalities Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Hispanic or Latino Black/African American Click here to meet our learners. Data from November 3, 2023 Not Identified 2%
Who We Are
A U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration Primary Care Workforce Development Grant enabled The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education to create and launch its very first residency program in Internal Medicine almost 50 years ago.
Mission Vision
To improve the health and welfare of our communities through inclusive and responsive health services and the sustainable renewal of an inspired, competent workforce that is privileged to serve.
For our Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortium framework that integrates patient care delivery, workforce development and innovation to be the leading model of primary health care in America.
Core Values
Do the Wright thing
Be privileged to serve
Be an exceptional team player
Strive for excellence
Be driven for great results
Spread positivity
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