Penn Center for Primary Care

Penn Center for Primary Care is one of the major outpatient clinical practices of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. The practice houses ten attending physicians and is the primary site for training of resident physicians in the Primary Care track of the Internal Medicine Residency training program of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2010, in partnership with a local resettlement agency, HIAS Pennsylvania, PCPC started a refugee clinic to meet an unmet need for rapid and thorough screening of newly arrived refugees. The refugee clinic has seen 75 refugees in its first year and plans to expand to 100 in the coming year. Refugees are seen by resident physicians from the Global Health and Primary Care tracks of the Internal Medicine residency program. They are closely supervised by four attending physicians. Twenty-nine resident physicians have rotated through the clinic to date. On-site ancillary clinical support is provided by a pharmacist, pharmacy students, clinical social worker, nurse, and a medical assistant. A psychiatrist sees patients once-monthly in the clinic as well. Medical case management is coordinated closely with a Case Manager from PCPC’s partner resettlement agency, HIAS Pennsylvania.