Medical College, ESU team up for joint studies program. That's why he and a host of university officials Monday joined with others from the Commonwealth Medical College, based in Scranton, to announce a new dual master's in public health and doctor of medicine degree program. The program will be aided by a $1. U. S. Health Resources and Services Administration over five years. The dual degree program will begin next June. The idea is to get physicians into individuals' lives on a community and regional level so they can find ways to head off wicked health issues before they become chronic crises. The public health education will link clinical training with environmental health, infectious disease control, disease prevention and health promotion, epidemiology and injury control.
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The program is directed toward future primary care doctors, not high- paid surgeons and specialists, said Mark V. White, assistant professor of epidemiology at the medical college. They are doctors who are on . Janet Townsend, chairwoman of the department of Family, Community and Rural Health at the medical college, said northeastern Pennsylvania counties rank in the lower third of many indicators of poor community health. Many of the issues are intertwined. For instance, the Scranton- Wilkes- Barre region had a 9.
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August. That would relate to high- than- average rates of uninsured and underinsured people. Those without insurance often will let a health issue grow until it becomes a crisis. At the same time, Cardelle said, communities in the region lack sidewalks — many of the region's New York transplants call the Poconos .
Students at ESU will get to collaborate with the doctors- in- training on public health projects to benefit the region. Students will have to meet the standards of both the medical college and ESU to be accepted into the program, and each school will award a separate degree. Students who complete the program would not be required to stay in Pennsylvania, but that certainly is the goal of the two schools' administrations. The medical school, which has campuses in Williamsport, Wilkes- Barre and Scranton, will graduate its first class of physicians next spring.