1. Assistant Director, SELECT Program MCOM Office of MD Admissions
Emilie Bree Croft
Assistant Director, SELECT Program MCOM Office of MD Admissions

2. What is USF Health? Morsani College of Medicine
School of Physical Therapy & Rehab Science
School of Biomedical Sciences
Athletic Training Education Program
College of Public Health
College of Pharmacy
College of Nursing

3. What is the Morsani College of Medicine? Present Day

4. What is the Morsani College of Medicine? Coming Soon

5. Unique Attributes of USF College of Medicine?
Optimistic, student-centered
Passionate, engaged faculty
Early and innovative clinical experiences
All required courses are integrated
Interprofessional teaching and learning
Group and integrated examinations
Community outreach
Scholarly concentrations

6. Core Affiliated Hospitals
Tampa General Hospital
James A. Haley VA Hospital
All Children’s Hospital
Morsani Advanced Healthcare Center

7. About SELECT
Lehigh Valley Health Network and USF share a dream about the future of health care. This vision surpasses our geographic differences. We feel very strongly about how the physicians of tomorrow need to be educated. And we know that now is the time to turn this vision into reality. That’s why we forged a partnership and created the SELECT program, despite our distant geography.
Students are connected with faculty mentors at USF and LVHN from the start
Students complete Years 1 and 2 at the USF College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida, a metropolitan with a wealth of diverse patient populations
Students spend Years 3 and 4 Lehigh Valley Health Network, one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report in Allentown, Pennsylvania
As a SELECT medical student, you will learn how to lead the accelerating pace of scientific discovery, strive for more public accountability, control health care costs through lean methodologies, eliminate national disparities in health care quality, help eliminate medical errors and effectively reduce the burden of chronic illness.

8. USF SELECT What is SELECT?
SELECT immerses you in an innovative curriculum focused on:
Leadership development
Values-based patient-centered care
Health systems
The goal of SELECT is to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and behaviors to transform the nature of health care.
Impact over 20 years will be to create 1000 leaders in healthcare who will touch at least a million lives on a yearly basis

9. Patient- Centered Care Interdisciplinary Teams Emotional Intelligence
SELECT Foundations
Leadership
Patient- Centered Care
Health Systems
Interdisciplinary Teams
Relationships
Emotional Intelligence
Self
Awareness
Self
Management
Social
Awareness
Relationship
Management

10. Lehigh Valley Health Network
LVH-Cedar Crest
LVH-17th Street
We’re expanding the reach of our care to help more people. LVHN offers care at:
5 Campuses, including:
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, off Rt. 78 in Salisbury Township
Lehigh Valley Hospital-17th Street, in downtown Allentown
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg, on Schoenersville Rd. in Bethlehem
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hazleton
Lehigh Valley Health Network-Tilghman, our first dedicated orthopedics facility
We have the regions only Children’s Hospital
13 health centers in communities all over the Lehigh Valley and expanding into northeast Pennsylvania
140+ LVPG practice locations in 45 specialties
Home health, hospice, pharmacy, laboratory and other outpatient services
And doctors and clinical staff working at locations throughout the Lehigh Valley.
Advanced Care – NCI-CCCP, Regional Trauma and Burn, Peds hospital, Comprehensive Stroke, Magnet Technology – 2 sim centers, leaders in robotic surgery, AICU, iphone apps
Collaborative Care – Exemplary care sites
1000 acute care beds
Advanced care
Technology
Lean systems
Medical education
Collaborative care
Learning environment
Medical Staff 10 10

11. Unique Features of the SELECT MD Program
Excellent core MD curriculum combined with innovative SELECT MD curriculum
Educational model emphasizing personal and professional development
Strategic mentoring and peer coaching
Interprofessional and interdisciplinary team training
Leadership skills training
Health systems and quality improvement training

12. Application Evaluation Process: “A Holistic Approach”
Academic Criteria (i.e. MCAT score, GPA, Graduate Work)
Demographics and contributions to diversity (i.e. URM, Gender, Disadvantages, Distance Traveled, Socio Economic Status)
Medical/clinical/shadowing/commitment to medicine experiences
Humanism and Service/Outreach experiences
Scholarly activities or Basic Science Research experiences
Independence of thought, productivity, critical thinking
Leadership
Role model, legacy
Evidence of originality and creativity through Letters of Recommendation
Academic and non-academic accomplishments
Community service, clinical work, sports, arts, business or other activities
Educational context
Interpret the applicant’s record with regard to the “distance traveled”

13. Connect with MD Admissions
To inquire about our Admissions Process and Timeline, visit our Office of MD Admissions website: MDadmissions.health.usf.edu
For phone or inquiries about the our MD Programs
Phone:
MD Admissions Advisor and Counselor
Emilie Croft –

14. Questions?