Weill Cornell Medical College, New York

Institutional Training Programs

Division of General Internal Medicine

Contact

Mary Charlson, M.D.
Program Director
Division of General Internal Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
525 East 68th Street, Box #46
New York, NY 10021
Phone: (212) 746-1608
Fax: (212) 746-7443

Web site: http://www.cornellmedicine.com/clinical_practices_and_divisions/general_internal_medicine/

Content Areas

• Clinical Epidemiology.
• Biostatistics.
• Health Policy, Economics, and Health Services Research.
• Behavioral Science, Health Promotion, and Disease Prevention.
• Medical Informatics.
• Decision Analysis.
• Information Systems and Education.
• Medical Ethics.
• Grant Writing.

Program Description

The objective of this post-graduate program is to train new physician investigators to become independent researchers, using methodologically rigorous approaches to meet emerging health services research priorities: specifically, improving the effectiveness and outcomes of clinical practice, improving our ability to provide high quality, cost-effective care, and assessing the effectiveness of health systems changes on outcomes, quality, cost and access to health care. The program emphasizes, theoretical, methodological and practice foundations in health services research, clinical research and behavior sciences to enable physician investigators to conduct research that will improve practice. A special emphasis of the program is to train researchers from diverse backgrounds so that they will have the skills to address the health problems and challenges faced by minority populations in our unique urban environment.

This interdisciplinary two-year program requires enrollment in a Master of Science Degree program in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research with a formal curriculum designed to provide conceptual as well as practical foundations and core competencies in health services research coupled with their own independent project. Each trainee is expected to successfully complete all of the 26 courses in the Master's program, which lead to 14 specific competencies, and to integrate the resultant knowledge and skills to design and conduct a research project of his/her own, with close supervision by established mentors. Trainees devote the major portion of their time to developing their own projects.

The program has built on the strengths of our faculty, who have a long history of collaborative work and extensive experience in research training and mentoring. These faculty members have diverse expertise in the basic sciences of health services research, including clinical epidemiology, health services research, medical ethics, medical informatics, health policy, health economics, biostatistics, and behavioral science drawn from the Ithaca, NYC, and Westchester campuses of Cornell University, Columbia University, the Hospital for Special Surgery, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

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