New York- Presbyterian-Queens Program

Program Identity & Fit

NewYork-Presbyterian Queens is a community-based academic hospital affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College, functioning as an ACS-verified Level I trauma center, primary stroke center, and STEMI receiving center with roughly 100,000 annual ED visits and a highly multilingual, ethnically diverse Flushing catchment population. The three-year curriculum emphasizes graded procedural autonomy (trauma room responsibility by PGY-2), heavy point-of-care ultrasound integration, and a structured RAMER rotation pairing research with medical-education teaching skills. Research is built into training through a formalized 100-point scholarly-activity system, dedicated departmental funding, biostatistician access, and an explicit "intersection of academic and community medicine" research mission, while four fellowships (Healthcare Leadership and Management, Medical Education, Simulation, Ultrasound) signal pathways beyond direct patient care. The program explicitly states it trains residents for any destination - community frontline physician, hospital administrator, or fellowship-bound academician - and foregrounds resident wellness (protected Wednesday afternoons, WellVent series) and cohesion as core institutional values.