Announcements
$50K gift from WVU faculty member benefits students at Eastern Campus
Future medical professionals studying at the West Virginia University School of Medicine’s Eastern Campus will benefit from a faculty member’s $50,000 gift.
Local health care leaders and learners provide free sports physicals and screenings to area students
An annual outreach effort led by WVU Medicine and WVU School of Medicine faculty and staff is helping monitor the health of hundreds of local students by providing them with free sports physicals and health screenings.
WVU in the News: How narrative medicine transformed an Appalachian doctor’s practice
Dr. Ryan McCarthy, associate professor in the WVU School of Medicine, writes for 100 Days in Appalachia.
New mobile teaching kitchen to provide free locally-grown produce, cooking demonstrations across eastern panhandle
West Virginia University’s Farm to You program unveiled a new mobile teaching kitchen. The kitchen will distribute free, locally-grown produce to patients and host student-led cooking demonstrations in the community.
SOM Eastern Campus announces 2024 Research Symposium winners
The WVU School of Medicine’s annual Eastern Campus Research Symposium, held each spring at the Health Sciences Center Eastern Division in Martinsburg, provides students and residents on the campus with a platform to conduct vital clinical research while building their investigative and presentation skills.
WVU School of Medicine Eastern Campus Class of 2024 celebrates Match Day
The West Virginia University School of Medicine’s Eastern Campus recently celebrated Match Day, where fourth-year medical students were given their letters and learned where they will spend the next several years completing their residency training.
Annual research symposium helps Eastern Campus students and residents build vital research skills
For more than a decade, the annual research symposium at the WVU School of Medicine’s Eastern Campus has provided learners with a platform to conduct vital research while building their investigative and presentation skills.
Match Day 2024: Rural Family Medicine Residency Program welcomes five rural scholars to Class of 2027
The West Virginia University School of Medicine Rural Family Medicine Residency Program will welcome five West Virginia medical students to the program in July. For the first time in the program’s history, each incoming resident is a current rural scholar from either the West Virginia University School of Medicine or the West Virginia School for Osteopathic Medicine.
Graduating medical students learn residency placements, prepare for next chapter of training
West Virginia University’s graduating medical students will go to 24 states and Washington, D.C. for their residency placements. West Virginia will retain 48% of the class. The placement announcements were made as part of the University’s Match Day celebration, Friday, March 15.
WVU School of Medicine to expand narrative medicine curriculum in Fall ‘24
The West Virginia University School of Medicine plans to expand its narrative medicine curriculum with a new elective course for medical students in the fall of 2024. The curriculum ties closely to the recent success of the Healthcare is Human project.