{"id":292635,"date":"2026-09-24T00:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292635\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:34:14","slug":"pennsylvania-dhs-partners-with-iup-to-create-new-medical-training-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292635\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania DHS partners with IUP to create new medical training program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) \u2014 A new partnership between the state and Indiana University of Pennsylvania is aimed at training more doctors for rural communities across the commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services and IUP&#8217;s College of Osteopathic Medicine have signed an agreement to train future physicians at Clarks Summit State Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the program will give medical students hands-on experience in behavioral health while addressing a shortage of health care workers in rural and underserved areas.<\/p>\n<p>IUP\u2019s new medical school is expected to welcome its first class in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders said training students in rural communities increases the chances they&#8217;ll return to practice there after graduation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) \u2014 A new partnership between the state and Indiana University of Pennsylvania is aimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-292635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}