Learning

There is a remarkable history being made everyday between the campuses, laboratories, classrooms and offices of the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance partners. For more than thirty years, Thomas Jefferson University has served as the Medical College of Delaware, and hundreds of UD students have gone on to earn their medical degrees at Jefferson. Similarly, Nemours is the pediatric teaching arm for Jefferson. Every year hundreds of nurses, students and volunteers are making connections bewteen the DHSA partners through their work, academic pursuits and life.

A classroom of students

In our small state - collaboration wins out over competition and has always been the engine behind leveraging opportunity. All the DHSA partners recognize the merits of a system where future doctors, nurses, administrators, staff and researchers emerge from training with a diversity of experience. With urban and rural areas, high and low-income points of service, wide ranging race and ethnicity, our region offers the type of dynamics critical in an ever-changing world.

Students recognize the DHSA partners as leaders in the field, and value the package offered through classwork that will bring it all together. Ongoing collaboration and creative leadership is making this opportunity more of a factor than ever for the young people choosing to start their academic and professional careers in Delaware. This same leadership promises to be a reason for staying.

The University of Delaware and Thomas Jefferson University offer a reciprocal graduate enrollment program. Full-time graduate students at each institution can attend classes at the partner school at no cost.

Information about this new initiaitve is available at the Graduate Studies site of the University of Delaware.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RECENT PRESS

Achieving great things.

National experts to speak at Delaware Health Sciences Alliance research conference
Tuesday, February 18, 2010--The Delaware Health Sciences Alliance (DHSA) will host its second annual research conference on May 4 at Christiana Care Health System's John H. Ammon Medical Education Center on the Christiana Hospital Campus.

UD health sciences dean to lead partnership programs
December 14, 2009--Kathy Matt, dean of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Delaware, has been appointed to leadership positions in two partnership programs that she sees as key to promoting health research and education in Delaware.
Older adults with cancer, caregivers focus of $600,000 research grant
Dec. 11, 2009--A team that includes two researchers from the University of Delaware's School of Nursing -- Paula Klemm, professor of nursing, and Veronica Rempusheski, the Jeanne K. Buxbaum Chair of Nursing Science -- has been awarded a two-year, $600,000 grant to conduct research aimed at supporting older adults affected by cancer and their caregivers in Delaware.
DHSA takes center stage at UD Trustees meeting
December 9, 2009--The University of Delaware's Board of Trustees got a firsthand look at the largest single property acquisition in the history of the institution during its semiannual meeting, held Tuesday, Dec. 8, at the former Chrysler assembly plant on South College Avenue in Newark.
Christiana Care's Dr. Petrelli to share cancer success story at national surgeons' conference
November 11, 2009--Christiana Care's pioneering role in significantly reducing Delaware's cancer rate will be in the national spotlight at a prestigious medical conference.