Welcome to WCGME. Please let me share with you my excitement about graduate medical education in Northeast Pennsylvania. Since 1977 our program has provided career fulfillment to our faculty, our staff, our residents and private physicians in this region. We are most energized by the development of The Commonwealth Medical College which has accepted its second class of medical students who began on August 9, 2009. The Medical College was an idea that was first proposed at a STRP Board Planning retreat on October 25, 2004. It has already been approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and accredited as an allopathic medical school by the Liaison Committee for Medical Education.

I also want to share with you my enthusiasm about our affiliation with Community Medical Center. WCGME residents now learn in all three Scranton hospitals. The experience completes the in-patient experience by adding the CMC hospitalist patients. Even before this excellent addition our graduates were highly sought for hospitalist positions in all sections of this country. This rotation will complement the mix of patients seen at the other two Scranton hospitals.

We are making great progress in developing additional residencies and fellowships. Our cardiology fellowship was accredited and two fellows began on July 1. Our office for research support has helped with 39 ongoing projects. Our cardiology faculty has been extraordinarily productive in publishing scholarly articles in Cardiology, Circulation and other peer reviewed journals.

We are also busy planning residencies in Surgery and Obstetrics & Gynecology to provide opportunities for students and graduates of The Commonwealth Medical College and students from other affiliated medical schools whose support we have enjoyed over the past years.

And so it is with great enthusiasm that I invite prospective internal medicine residents to seize this once in a lifetime opportunity to pursue training in a setting with such dynamic potential. I hope you find this website to be effective in communicating the enormous opportunity that WCGME presents.

Robert E. Wright, M.D., F.A.C.P.

President and CEO