First-Hand Experience in a Clinical Environment
The summer immersion term at Weill Cornell Medicine and its affiliated New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City offers first-year Ph.D. students a chance to experience clinical practice and research in a hospital. The term runs from mid-June to early August, about eight weeks, and the program covers housing and transportation.
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Objectives
- Acquire basic knowledge of the bioethical issues concerning human subject research.
- Acquire basic understanding of a clinical specialty – anatomy and disease process, diagnosis and treatment methods and technology.
- Learn to identify the need and challenges of technology in clinical practice, and to formulate from an engineering perspective the problem of and solution to such challenges.
- Learn how clinicians think, formulate and solve problems, and how to effectively work with busy practicing clinicians.
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Highights
- Shadow a clinical mentor in surgeries and procedures
- Gain insight into medical challenges and needs
- Learn how biomedical engineering affects patient care
- Understand the challenges doctors face in providing care
- Study related medical topics and research
- Attend bioethics and other clinical seminars
- Gain experience and knowledge that will shape your research and career