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Penn State Health:

International Profile As of October 21, 2021

Student Mobility in the College of Medicine (AY 2017/18-2021/22) International Student Enrollment in Penn State Health (AY 2017/18-2021/22)

Term

# International Students

Fall 2017

66

Fall 2018

74

Fall 2019

75

Fall 2020

76

Fall 2021

69

Education Abroad in Penn State Health (AY 2016/17-2021/22) Faculty-Led Programming Faculty-Led Programs often have participants from other colleges and/or campuses. This program information includes all student information, not just specific to Penn State Health. The data available in the participation chart above only includes Penn State Health-based students.

Faculty-Led Embedded Programs The Embedded Program numbers below represent the last full year of programming (AY 20182019) prior to the cancellation of all Spring and Summer 2020 embedded programs due to COVID19.

Penn State Health operated 6 Faculty-Led Embedded Programs during AY 2018-2019.

Total program leaders = 14 Total program participants = 61 Faculty-Led Freestanding Programs Penn State Health has not operated any Faculty-Led Freestanding programs to date.

Penn State Health Ed Abroad Participation by Term

Academic Year

Fall/AY

Fall Embedded

Spr

Spr Embedded

Sum

Sum Embedded

Total

2016-17

12

37

49

2017-18

51

22

73

2018-19

38

23

61

2019-20

28

--

--

28

2020-21

--

--

--

--

--

--

0

Grand Totals

0

0

0

129

0

82

211

International Agreements in Penn State Health Penn State’s College of Medicine has six (6) active agreements. In response to our 2021 Annual Report, Medicine reported the following.

1. Monash University in Australia. Internship MOA signed on December 11, 2020, and is due to expire on December 11, 2025.

“Monash remains an engaged and enthusiastic partner. Prior to the pandemic we had completed faculty and student exchanges.”

2. Taipei Medical University in Taiwan. Graduate exchange and dual degree MOA signed on July 12, 2019, and is due to expire on July 12, 2024.

“This is an important agreement between PSU-COM’s MPH program and Taipei Medical University. The MPH program has a unique arrangement in place to allow students from TMU to receive their MPH through PSUCOM as part of their medical degree program.”

3. Tokyo Women’s Medical University in Japan. Graduate exchange MOU signed on August 21, 2017, and due to expire on August 22, 2022.

“Dr. Dan Wolpaw will be retiring at the end of 2021. Our engagement with Tokyo Women’s dropped off a couple of years ago.”

4. University of Panama. General MOU signed on May 28, 2017, and due to expire on May 31, 2022.

“The faculty members leading this collaboration (Drs. Bill and Eileen Hennrikus) have retired from the institution."

5. Eastern Regional Hospital Koforidua in Ghana. Graduate exchange MOA signed on February 18, 2019, with no expiration date.

“The Eastern Regional Hospital continues to be an important global partner for PSU-COM and Penn State Health. Prior to the pandemic Penn State Health and PSU-COM had someone in country for 50% of the year.

They host our students, residents and faculty. We have hosted leaders from the Eastern Regional Hospital many times in Hershey, introducing them to community partners including Hershey Rotary. Our engagement with Eastern Regional allows for us to engage in clinical care, education, quality improvement projects, and collaborative research. We have several jointly published manuscripts. All of these efforts were underway before COVID19 and will resume as we are able to resume travel.”

6. Lam Dong Medical College in Vietnam. Graduate exchange MOA signed on May 25, 2019, with no expiration date.

“Lam Dong Medical College is a valuable partner for our Global Health Scholars Program. We have also hosted individuals from Lam Dong in Hershey.Prior to COVID19 joint scholarly activity was underway with Dr. Tim Craig who leads this partnership.”

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