In a new course, pairs of medical students are assigned to families in the inner city to learn how they view and interact with the health care system.  Learn more.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus have established a new center to better understand why health outcomes vary among demographic groups. Through partnerships with communities in New York City and central New York, the Cornell Center for Health Equity will generate new evidence on how to eliminate such differences with the goal of achieving health equity for people locally, regionally and nationally.  Learn more.

In the early hours of March 16, the Medical Education Center lobby was deceptively quiet, empty of student activity-the calm before the storm known as Match Day 2018.  Learn more.

This was the moment of truth for the first graduating class at the Middletown campus of Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. Each student opened an envelope and found out where they would spend their residency – periods of postgraduate training under the supervision of another physician. Learn more.

The worry and wait came to an end for 86 fourth-year medical students of the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell on Friday, March 16, 2018-Match Day-an important milestone for graduating medical students across the country as they open personalized letters containing their residency placement results.  Learn more.

At the stroke of noon today, fourth-year medical students at Einstein began celebrating another successful Match Day, ripping open their personalized envelopes that reveal where they will begin their next phase of medical education as resident physicians at hospitals around the nation. Learn more.

Hispanics and women are at the greatest risk for leaving surgical residency prior to completion, according to a new study conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. Learn more.

Pathologists, structural scientists and surgeons are teaming up to enhance the way human structure is studied and taught.   Learn more.

As a financial advisor and planner, Charles Fenniesays he had to dig deep to look at a person’s whole situation in order to best advise them. Now that he’s pursuing his medical degree, he’s discovered that osteopathic doctors do the same thing.  Learn more.

On Thursday, March 1, 2018, faculty, staff and guests of the Donald and Barbara School of Medicine were pleased to honor members of our current fourth year class who were inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Society.  Learn more.

Columbia medical student Caroline Park recently enjoyed the journey of a lifetime to the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics in South Korea. It all began in 2013 with an unexpected email and culminated in competing on the historic unified Korean women’s ice hockey team in February.   Learn more.

Gordon Tomaselli, M.D., FAHA, FACC, FHRS, an internationally renowned physician-scientist in the field of cardiovascular disease, has been named the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Tomaselli assumes his new role on July 1, 2018  Learn more.

The School of Medicine’s (SOM) Office of Diversity and Inclusion co-hosted its third annual HeLa Diversity and Inclusion conference, along with Westchester Medical Center Health Network, on March 19. This year’s theme was “Creating Healthy Communities: Collaboration. Innovation. Transformation”.   Learn more.

Against the backdrop of sirens blaring from a YouTube video showing emergency vehicles stuck in a New York City traffic jam, approximately 50 high school students in an after school program at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine last week learned how to help patients with life-threatening injuries survive a simulated train wreck.  Learn more.

When a patient gets an infection in a hospital, it’s often a devastating complication. Those infections can be very hard and very expensive to treat, as well as being a leading cause of death in hospitals. Now, a hospital in Brooklyn is using a combination of high tech and old fashioned washing to prevent infections. Learn more.