About Us

Frequently Asked Questions


While recognizing the challenges of a competitive residency in family practice, our program is committed to your clinical training, personal skill development, and overall well-being. Lebanon, a 24,000+ city in the heart of the Lebanon Valley, a rich, multicultural area east of Harrisburg which offers a pleasant, safe and attractive environment ideal to raise a family.

What benefits make the program unique?
  • Community based hospital where Family Practice is the sole Residency
  • Strong community-oriented program affiliated to Hershey Medical Center academic environment with opportunities for research. 
  • Good Samaritan Hospital is the only Lebanon County hospital, serving 128,000 residents.
  • Routine interaction and educational opportunities with local specialists and subspecialists
  • Resident involvement in program decision making; scheduled resident-run committee meetings
  • Starting salary $46,144
  • 20 days of paid personal leave per year
  • ACLS, ATLS, PALS, ALSO and Neonatal Resuscitation fees paid
  • Yearly Graduated CME Funding ($1,000, $1,500, $2,000)
  • Free meals at conferences and on call
  • Paid AAFP Membership
  • Health, Life, Dental, Vision and Disability Insurance at Competitive rates
  • Maternity/Paternity Leave
  • Resident/Faculty retreats

What type of obstetrical training will I receive in this program?

  • Five faculty members trained in OB practice and teach OB.  They are available for antepartum management, OB procedures and delivery techniques
  • Faculty availability at all deliveries
  • Personal office continuity patients to manage during antepartum, delivery and postpartum
  • Rotations through outpatient facilities with exposure to management of high risk patients
  • Interaction with private OB/GYN practice; opportunity to assist with Cesarean sections and forceps deliveries.
  • Elective Opportunities for interested residents

Is procedure training emphasized in the program? Yes!

  • First year training in suturing and ALSO, BLS, ACLS, ATLS and Neonatal Resuscitation Courses
  • Second year - 2 week block of focused training in flexible sigmoidoscopy, nasolaryngoscopy, colposcopy, minor surgery, joint injection technique, casting and splinting, Simulation Lab Experience
  • http://www.pennstatehershey.org/web/simlab/home 
  • Office days reserved in second and third years for one-on-one procedure training

What's call like in the program?

  • Medicine/pediatrics and obstetrical inpatient services are covered after hours and weekends by an in-house team consisting of one first year resident and one senior resident. 
  • A "night float" system exists consisting of one senior resident and one intern from Sunday through Friday morning; the residents on night float have no other rotation responsibilities during these two-week blocks of night float assignment.
  • Interns and second year residents will have 3 two-week assignments each academic year; third year residents are assigned 2 two-week blocks. 
  • Call for the remaining Friday and Saturday evenings is distributed amongst those residents not performing night float duties; first year residents take approximately 2 days of in-house call per month in months when they are not on night float. Senior residents take approximately 1 day of in-house call per month in months when they are not on night float.