SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Pennsylvania patriot is not resting connected her laurels pursuing her subject accomplishments.
She is present grooming to go a household physician.
“I was really blown distant by however beauteous it is, the survey rooms here, the facilities,” said Marina Hierl, a first-year aesculapian pupil from Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.
29-year-old Marina Hierl present calls Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine location for her education. The first-year aesculapian pupil is pursuing a caller way aft spending 5 years connected different 1 that took her astir the world.
“Just going done the subject and going done with my peers, I don’t consciousness what I’ve done is needfully that significant,” says Hierl.
Others mightiness disagree. Hierl is the archetypal pistillate to walk the rigorous U.S. Marine Corps infantry serviceman course, and pb a Marine Corps infantry platoon.
“I was truly passionate astir my work. I truly cared astir my Marines, and that’s truly each I focused connected portion I was in,” explained Hierl.
She roseate to the fertile of skipper during her subject service. Even though healthcare was not portion of her service, it someway became her calling and adjacent helped hole her successful definite ways.
“I conscionable person a consciousness of purpose. I truly knew wherefore I wanted to beryllium a Marine officer. I truly wanted to beryllium a bully person for my Marines and I deliberation I’m benignant of carrying that implicit present into the aesculapian field. Everything I’m doing is for my aboriginal patients,” added Hierl.
Hierl has chalked up different accomplishment. She is simply a Geisinger Abigail scholar. By gathering definite criteria, she is enrolled tuition-free and she’s paid a stipend successful speech for a committedness to statesman her aesculapian vocation with Geisinger. The school’s dean tells Eyewitness News Hierl is an fantabulous candidate.
“The experiences that Marina Hierl had successful the past show her outstanding enactment skills and we privation our graduates, our doc graduates astatine Geisinger Commonwealth to beryllium leaders. We request physicians to beryllium leaders, to attraction for their patients, but besides to animate the assemblage toward amended health,” says Julie Byerley aesculapian dean astatine Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.
“I deliberation if I tin lend to that and person my sanction align with that I’m perfectly each in,” said Hierl.
Hierl is connected way to postgraduate from Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine successful 2026.
In speech for being an Abigail scholar, she volition grant a committedness to statesman the archetypal 4 years of her aesculapian vocation successful the Geisinger chain.
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