Our laboratory is used by physician-scientists, researchers, fellows, residents, medical students, visiting professors, and other specialists. It includes lab space, offices, support rooms, major equipment, mentor laboratories, and workbenches.
As a department, we strive to cultivate true scholars and promote scholarly activities among all members. This process involves medical students, residents, fellows, volunteers, and those pursuing continuing medical education.
Our laboratory is used by physician-scientists, researchers, fellows, residents, medical students, visiting professors, and other specialists. It includes lab space, offices, support rooms, major equipment, mentor laboratories, and workbenches.
As a department, we strive to cultivate true scholars and promote scholarly activities among all members. This process involves medical students, residents, fellows, volunteers, and those pursuing continuing medical education.
The program is uniquely structured allowing residents to focus on different areas of urologic care for a diverse population of patients over the course of six years. Residents rotate at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine (NYP-WCM), NewYork-Presbyterian Queens and Brooklyn Methodist Hospitals, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, with dedicated time for research during their fourth year.
Clinical and educational work hours are limited to no more than 80 hours per week, averaged over a four-week period, inclusive of all in-house clinical and educational activities, and clinical work done from home.
Many residents choose to live in one of the NYP-WCM-owned buildings in walking distance from the hospital. The two most popular buildings, Payson House and Helmsley Tower, are connected to the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine main campus via tunnels and offer a variety of amenities including in-building daycare (Payson) and a rooftop social area (Helmsley). More information on housing can be found here.
Residents earn a competitive salary that makes it possible to comfortably live in the area. Salary and benefit details can be found here.
Residents receive 20 days of vacation per year. Residents can choose when they take vacation, but only one resident can be out at each clinical site at a time. The one exception to this is PGY-1/Intern year; interns take 20 days of vacation in two 2-week blocks.
Over the six years, residents rotate at five different sites – NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine (NYP-WCM) Upper East Side (UES), NYP-WCM Queens Hospital, NYP-WCM Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Hospital for Special Surgery (consults during all 5 clinical years). Residents provide care for a range of urologic conditions across different populations through their rotations at each of these locations.
Grand Rounds conferences are held every Monday, consisting of tumor board, Morbidity and Mortality conference, and guest speakers from different specialties and subspecialties. Didactics are held every Tuesday afternoon with speakers from our own as well as different departments and institutions. Residents also have hands-on training time during basic science lectures. Residents also attend urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery (URPS) lectures, where different articles and cases are presented, plus national renowned speakers are invited to give talks. On Friday afternoons, “Boss Rounds” are held, where all the residents sit with an attending or the Chair and review a case together. Lastly, there is a monthly Journal Club where residents discuss 5-6 articles as a group, led by different attendings.
There are multiple opportunities for mentoring that often develop secondary to one’s own preferences and research interests. Multiple structures exist to support this process. Junior residents (PGY-1 and PGY-2) are paired with a PGY-4/research resident to create a resident-to-resident mentoring program and promote research. Junior residents are also assigned a faculty mentor to support their academic pursuits during the early years of residency. Residents are encouraged to apply for a research grant during their PGY-3 year to use during their PGY-4 year, although finding external funding is not required. Quarterly sit-down meetings with the chair are held to discuss themes of importance to resident education. Additionally, the Urology Mentoring Families is an integrative approach to mentoring in our residency program that reinforces the mentoring relationship by including several classes of residents and a minimum of two faculty members in each mentoring unit. The family serves to promote connections between residents and faculty members, as in traditional mentoring, as well as among the residents and faculty members themselves, providing a broad base of support and diverse perspectives with multiple members in each mentoring family.