New Clinical Options for Medical Students

A number of new and expanded collaborations with regional medical centers are broadening the geographic footprint of the College of Medicine. Medical students can now gain clinical experience from a growing number of campuses.

Bayhealth Medical Center in Delaware began serving as a new regional medical campus at the start of the 2024–25 academic year.

The college has had a longstanding academic medical campus affiliation with Bayhealth, which is central and southern Delaware’s largest health care system. But the new regional designation allows Drexel medical students to select Bayhealth as their primary campus for comprehensive training, completing all their required core clinical rotations there during their third- and/or fourth-year clerkships.

The health system includes two hospital locations in Kent and Sussex County, and one freestanding emergency room in Smyrna.

In addition, AtlantiCare signed an agreement to become a new academic medical campus for the College of Medicine. Third- and fourth-year medical students may pursue clerkship training at its large health system based in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. The AtlantiCare health system has a team of more than 6,500 health professionals who serve populations in many locations across the Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May and Ocean counties in New Jersey.

These new affiliations add to the roster of clinical opportunities for Drexel medical students, which include regional medical campuses in Pittsburgh, Upland, Harrisburg and York in Pennsylvania and in San Leandro, California, in addition to Drexel’s four-year regional campus at Tower Health – Reading Hospital in West Reading, Pennsylvania.