Congratulations as you embark on this exciting and momentous time in your career as a physician. Residency training is the first opportunity to begin caring for patients as their doctor and is a challenging period filled with incredible growth. At Weill Cornell Medicine, we believe that this unique experience of training must provide young physicians with all of the skills, knowledge and support to enable them to have successful, productive, and long careers in medicine.
Our residents have a broad base of educational opportunities in the program, ranging from an interactive didactic core curriculum in Academic Time to an integrated simulation program. They spend time learning bedside point of care ultrasound as well as learning about the psychosocial components that impact an individual’s health literacy, access to health care, and ultimately their outcomes as patients. However, the most amazing educational aspect of our training program is the vast breadth and depth of patients that we get to see practicing medicine in Manhattan. Our mix of patients from all five boroughs of New York City allows residents to take care of patients from countries from all over the world, with different endemic diseases, different cultural beliefs and different approaches to health care. There is no curriculum that could surpass the wealth of knowledge that our patients bring in their stories.
We have a dedicated and productive faculty who are devoted to the success of our house staff, encouraging them not only in their clinical work, but also assisting them in and recruiting them to many different projects in scholarship and research - whether their interest is in translation research, quality improvement, education or bench science. The mentorship and exposure to stellar research at our institution and our neighboring partners (Hospital for Special Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and The Rockefeller University) provide our house staff with rich opportunity.
Ultimately, we know that in order for residents to achieve their full potential as physicians, their work environment needs to support them in all aspects. At Weill Department of Medicine we are truly a community - of colleagues, friends and caregivers. I consider myself lucky to have the privilege of coming to work here every day to care for our patients and to work with our outstanding house staff. Good luck in the upcoming months!
Kirana Gudi, M.D.
Program Director
