{"id":204699,"date":"2023-09-14T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=204699"},"modified":"2023-09-14T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:06:10","slug":"uconn-school-of-medicine-and-hartford-healthcare-renew-and-grow-their-longstanding-academic-training-collaborations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/09\/uconn-school-of-medicine-and-hartford-healthcare-renew-and-grow-their-longstanding-academic-training-collaborations\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn School of Medicine and Hartford HealthCare Renew and Grow Their Longstanding Academic Training Collaborations"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the state and nation faces a critical shortage of physicians, UConn School of Medicine and Hartford HealthCare are working together to make an even bigger difference for the future of our health care workforce.<\/p>\n

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Dean of UConn School of Medicine, Dr. Bruce T. Liang, speaking at the ceremonial signing event on Sept. 14, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On September 14 leadership of both institutions gathered in Hartford to celebrate and sign a renewed five-year, expanded academic affiliation agreement committed to adding new residencies and fellowships, while helping overcome clinical shortages by increasing class size and providing the facilities for clinical education training.<\/p>\n

The agreement renews and strengthens the clinical training affiliation for opportunities for undergraduate medical education enrolled UConn medical students and resident trainees in UConn\u2019s more than 75 graduate medical education\u2019s robust residency training programs.<\/p>\n

More than half of the graduates of UConn\u2019s medical school and residency programs stay in Connecticut where they are trained. Annually, there are nearly 800 UConn residents and fellows \u2013 and on any given day about half of them are learning and providing care in a Hartford HealthCare facility.<\/p>\n

Hartford HealthCare is one of the primary teaching affiliates of the UConn School of Medicine. Hartford HealthCare and the UConn School of Medicine have collaborated in medical education since 1963. From the start, UConn medical students have participated in clinical rotations at Hartford HealthCare hospitals \u2013 the first class training at The Hospital of Central Connecticut.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur relationship spans over 60 years,\u201d shared Hartford HealthCare President & CEO Jeff Flaks. \u201cIn Connecticut we need to re-imagine. We need to ensure our residents have access to high quality health care. We are taking this to a whole other level. We are going to create new residencies. This will allow us to bring more physicians to Connecticut. We will be making a greater difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want what is best for the people of Connecticut,\u201d stressed UConn President\u00a0Radenka\u00a0Maric citing how over thirty percent of physicians in Connecticut are UConn graduates. \u201cThe only way to succeed is to work together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hartford HealthCare’s Chief Academic Officer Dr. Rocco Orlando with UConn residents Dr. Chioma Ogbejesi and Dr. Lucky Osumah.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe are creating tomorrow\u2019s health care workforce,\u201d shared longtime UConn School of Medicine Dean Dr. Bruce T. Liang\u00a0at the celebratory event. He serves as UConn Health\u2019s Interim CEO. \u201cHartford HealthCare is one of our medical school\u2019s prime academic affiliates. We are ensuring that these talented future doctors dreaming of and working hard toward becoming primary care physicians and clinical specialists are equipped with the most technologically advanced training and wide-range of patient care experiences possible. And not just in Farmington but also across Connecticut.\u201d<\/p>\n

UConn is the state\u2019s largest medical school and largest source of new physicians and surgeons. \u00a0UConn\u2019s contributions to the state\u2019s health care workforce are unparalleled \u2013 with 70% of its medical school graduates practicing medicine or serving as resident physicians in Connecticut; plus 60% of the state\u2019s pediatricians are its graduates or trainees; and 31% of practicing physicians in Connecticut are UConn-trained.<\/p>\n

And UConn doesn\u2019t have any plans of slowing down.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe keep growing our medical school student body,\u201d said Liang as the School just welcomed its largest class ever of 112 new medical students and continues to have an annual army of over 700 residents training in its large GME training programs supporting the state\u2019s various hospital staffing needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d like to thank Hartford HealthCare for always doing what they can to support our medical school\u2019s growth and our trainees,\u201d shared Liang with a special thanks to Dr. Rocco Orlando, an alum of UConn\u2019s medical school, for his ongoing collaboration with the School of Medicine in his role as Hartford HealthCare\u2019s Chief Academic Officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was born and raised in Connecticut. Fourty-nine years ago I started medical school,\u201d shared Orlando. \u201cTo meet the needs of the future, every part of Hartford HealthCare needs to be involved in teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

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UConn-trained Dr. Kelsey Roch is now an attending physician in emergency medicine at Hartford HealthCare.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three thriving UConn School of Medicine graduates also joined the celebratory signing event who had the opportunity to have residency training rotations at Hartford HealthCare.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a triple-Husky,\u201d said Dr. Kelsey Roch, a Connecticut native, proudly sharing how her UConn emergency medicine rotation experience at Hartford HealthCare after earning her undergraduate and medical degrees at UConn solidified her choice to stay in the state to practice. In 2020 she joined Hartford HealthCare as an emergency medicine attending physician. \u201cI am a Connecticut-lifer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Lucky Osumah, is a second-year emergency medicine UConn resident who graduated from the School of Medicine in 2022. He is from Connecticut\u2019s West Haven.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really wanted to stay at UConn for residency. I couldn\u2019t imagine another place to go through my residency training,\u201d said Osumah. \u201cEvery day is a learning experience. I am really grateful for all the training opportunities in emergency medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am also a Connecticut-lifer,\u201d shared Dr. Chioma Ogbejesi, a fourth-year OB\/GYN Surgery UConn resident, also from West Haven. She is in her final year of residency and recently rotated at Hartford Hospital.<\/p>\n

Ogbejesi concluded: \u201cThe collaboration between UConn and Hartford HealthCare is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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