New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia and Cornell Campus Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a 4-year, dual-campus academic emergency medicine program spanning NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, treating over 250,000 ED visits annually across two Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma centers, with additional exposure to the nation's busiest burn unit and affiliations with Hospital for Special Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. The program is structured around 17 Academic Practice Tracks (mini-fellowships in areas like toxicology, ultrasound, EMS, global health, and simulation) requiring a point-based certification and a mentored scholarly project, with mandatory SAEM conference attendance for all PGY-2s, reflecting a career-development infrastructure built for subspecialization within EM rather than pure community practice. A PGY-3/PGY-4 supervisory structure grants interns and second-years first attempts at procedures, signaling a program that values early procedural autonomy alongside a four-year progression toward independent department oversight. Backed by two Ivy League medical schools, the Mailman School of Public Health, and Weill Graduate School, the program positions residents to draw on a large faculty and graduate research base, indicating a strong emphasis on scholarly output as integral to training identity.