MATCH NUMBERS 100% DO STUDENTS (BOTH CAMPUSES)
MICHAEL STEFANOWICZ, DO ’16
While working as a social worker with Project Home, a nonprofit that aids Philadelphia’s chronically homeless, Dr. Stefanowicz saw how primary care could greatly improve the lives of the underserved. While at PCOM, he became involved with the Primary Care Scholars Program, and through that organization helped set up basic health screenings and shared medical appointments with DO and psychology students at a men’s homeless shelter where he’d worked at while at Project Home. “The opportunity to provide care across the spectrum of life has always appealed to me,” he says. “It’s why I came to PCOM.”
ALANA STEPHENS, DO ’16, GA–PCOM
“It is exciting to find a specialty that you ‘click’ with in your passions and strengths,” says Dr. Stephens. “I found mine in neurology.” In the future, while serving as a physician, teacher and researcher, she aspires to be a leader in this rapidly developing field. Dr. Stephens began a neurology residency at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, in July, and hopes to pursue a fellowship after residency. “I have the desire to fill a need in an area where there will be an increase in demand as advances in medicine increase life expectancy and diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s become more prevalent,” she says.
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PCOM School of Pharmacy Class of 2016 students matched to post-graduate year 1 (PGY-1) pharmacy practice residency programs.
DIGEST 2016
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