PCOM in the News
December 2019
December 23, 2019View local, regional and national stories featuring PCOM faculty, staff, students
and events for the month of December 2019.
December 19, 2019 | The Notebook (Philadelphia Public School)
PCOM joined other higher education institutions in the area in issuing a letter of
support pledging assistance with curriculum and program development for the proposed
High School of Health Sciences Leadership Charter School (HS2L).
December 12-18, 2019 | The Philadelphia Inquirer (Online); The Philadelphia Daily News
PCOM and other local and national medical schools report data showing female students
now outnumber male students.
December 17, 2019 | American Academy of PAs
Zach Murphy (MS/PA '20) shares his online educational video series titled “Ninja Nerd Science.”
December 16, 2019 | Washington Insider (AACOM)
PCOM welcomed Rep. Dwight Evans to campus for a panel discussion on the need for more
personnel
and funding in the primary care fields.
December 5-12, 2019 | The Philadelphia Inquirer (Online); Inside OME (AACOM)
PCOM’s pediatrics club hosted Delaware County Girl Scouts Troop 57119 on campus to
act as pediatric standardized patients.
December 10, 2019 | The Healthy
Eric Polan, DO ’07, assistant professor, internal medicine, discussed symptoms associated with hyperthyroidism.
December 5, 2019 | Cairn University
PCOM and Cairn University partner on a streamlined way for Cairn students to pursue
their graduate studies in pharmaceuticals, biomedical science and forensics at PCOM.
December 1, 2019 | The Philadelphia Inquirer (Online)
Richard Allen, PsyD, assistant professor, school psychology, discussed opioid-related foster-care admissions.
December 2019 | Insight into Diversity
PCOM was named a recipient of the 2019 Insight into Diversity Magazine’s Health Professions
Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award.
December 2019 | AOA
Peter Bidey, DO ’08, discusses the flu vaccine and staying healthy during flu season.
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