The Weill Cornell Department of Medicine is a major center for biomedical research. Among the first groups of institutions to receive a $49 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the NIH, Weill Cornell Medicine is home to world-renowned faculty and state-of-the-art research facilities. Close collaborations with our neighboring institutions, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, and Hospital for Special Surgery, further enrich research opportunities and mentorship available to our residents.
All categorical and primary care track residents participate in a two-week Core Research Curriculum at the start of their PGY-2 year. The curriculum offers an introduction to foundational principles in basic science, translational, and clinical research, and skills-based workshops for biostatistics, data management, and manuscript preparations. Individualized mentorship allows residents to tailor the Core Research experience to their areas of interest and develop project proposals by the conclusion of the rotation.
Residents are encouraged to attend scientific meeting(s) to present their scholarly work during their 36‐month training period. To support this activity, a maximum of $2,000 per resident is available to fund the registration, travel and accommodation expenses of each resident to participate in eligible and appropriate scientific meetings. The resident may request additional funds via formal application to be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Xiaohan Ying, M.D.
PGY-3
I’m currently a PGY 3 interested in transplant hepatology. Before residency, I didn’t have too much research experience and never would have imagined a research-oriented career. Since starting residency, I’ve been fortunate enough to have met many great mentors who not only patiently taught me the basics of research but also supported me through my own research ideas. I am also really grateful for our residency program leadership for providing me with the support and flexibility to complete these research projects.
Some ideas that we’ve published include racial / ethnic disparities in barriers to care, treatment and survival differences among Asian Americans with hepatocellular carcinoma, and trends in Medicare spending on viral hepatitis medications. Under their mentorship, I was able to obtain research grants from Weill Cornell as well as the American College of Gastroenterology and I was chosen to be an AASLD Emerging Liver Scholar last year. I am planning on pursuing a research fellowship in GI after residency.
