Allegheny Health Network Welcomes New Class of Medical Students, Residents and Fellows

This year's class includes inaugural group from Duquesne University's new Nasuti College of Osteopathic Medicine

PITTSBURGH - Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Medical Education will welcome this summer more than 200 new residents and fellows to its graduate medical education (GME) training program, along with nearly 50 medical students to its undergraduate medical education training program.

"As part of our academic mission to educate and prepare the next generation of caregivers, AHN has trained thousands of outstanding clinicians who have gone on to provide exceptional care throughout our region and around the world," said James B. Reilly, MD, senior vice president of Academic Affairs and designated institutional official for GME within AHN's Medical Education Consortium.

"We are pleased to welcome this new class and look forward to supporting them on their journey toward becoming skilled, compassionate physicians."

Early this week, ahead of the July 1 start of the academic year, many of AHN's new hospital-based residents and fellows will convene at AHN Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) for orientation. The new trainees - including 183 residents and 23 fellows - come from across the U.S. and 23 countries.

Residents are newly graduated doctors who are now pursuing graduate medical training. Fellows are board-certified doctors who have finished their residencies and are completing additional training in a specific specialty or subspecialty. Undergraduate medical students are in their third or fourth years of medical school.

The new class will join hundreds of other trainees who are already embedded in AHN's educational programs and play a critical role in delivering patient care across the network's footprint.

In August, AHN will welcome Duquesne University Nasuti College of Osteopathic Medicine's inaugural class of students for clinical training at its Pittsburgh-area hospitals. The network announced last year that it would serve as a clinical campus for the new medical school; the region's newest medical school opened in 2024.

Students will complete clinical rotations in emergency medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, geriatric medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry and surgery. They may also pursue elective rotations across dozens of additional medical and surgical programs and subspecialties.

AHN's undergraduate medical education program is also affiliated with Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, and Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM).

Steven R. Wolfe, DO, MPH, FAAFP, serves as the regional dean of the Nasuti College of Medicine's clinical campus at AHN and LECOM's clinical campus at AHN in Southwestern Pennsylvania. In all, more than 700 faculty members support the network's training mission as teachers, preceptors and program leaders.

To learn more about medical education at AHN, visit ahn.org/health-care-professionals/education.

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