Dear prospective applicant,
I am thrilled to be the inaugural Senior Associate Dean for the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Regional Medical Campus at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. The regional campus (or RMC) started in 2023 and is designed to deliver a high-quality clinical education for the 3rd and 4th years of medical school for 30 students annually. The RMC also offers electives AIs and other rotations main campus students can participate in. Sinai Hospital is a 400 bed teaching hospital with the full spectrum of medical services to the Baltimore community with more than 15,000 admissions, 1500 births, and 60,000 ER visits annually. Sinai has centers of excellence in neurosciences, surgical specialties including trauma, colorectal, and neurosurgery, oncology care, cardiology, orthopedics and pediatrics. Founded in 1868 to provide services to minorities, Sinai Hospital has maintained a long standing commitment to taking care of everyone in the local community.
At the RMC, students will participate in all required core clerkships during their clinical years in a single institution which is a great benefit to third year students. Not only do they not have to travel over large geographies, but they only have to learn one system instead of changing each rotation or sometimes 2 times in each rotation. Additionally, students become part of the community of the hospital, getting to know their faculty personally and getting to know the surrounding communities and the patients they care for as well. The curriculum, the evaluations, and the grading are all the same as the main campus in Foggy Bottom, it is just delivered in a more personalized fashion in Baltimore.
Our goal for the RMC is to ensure that all students thrive in a clinical learning environment that teaches them to be fantastic physicians. Our personalized approach makes sure that each student has the opportunity to succeed and thrive regardless of their specialty of choice. We have just finished the first year of the RMC and our outcomes to date are fantastic, with the students rating our core clerkships at or higher than all other GW sites. We anticipate future success as our first class of 30 students has been accepted to the program and being in August of 2024.
Sincerely,
Scott Krugman, MD, MS, FAAP
Senior Associate Dean for LifeBridge Health/GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Regional Medical Campus