It began as a spark of interest in remote healthcare, gained momentum four years ago with the introduction of a suite of digital health services, then exploded when COVID-19 strained the system, making hospital and doctor visits anything but routine. Today, telemedicine—as a panel of experts at an Oct. 1 Weill Cornell Medicine webinar agreed—is no longer a futuristic idea but an immediate and vital tool for doctors and patients alike.
Trainees of Hispanic ethnicity, compared with non-Hispanic trainees, were only about 40 percent as likely to pass, on the first try, the final examination for American Board of Surgery (ABS) certification, despite having passed an initial qualifying exam to demonstrate sufficient applied knowledge, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.
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.
On a Tuesday in early June, just days before summer break, dozens of third-year medical students gathered in the Belfer Research Building to present findings from independent research projects they’d been working on since February.
