New York Presbyterian Hospital Cornell Campus Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a tertiary academic pediatric residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, embedded in a tri-institutional research ecosystem with Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and further diversified by rotations at the Hospital for Special Surgery (musculoskeletal/orthopedics) and NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens for community pediatrics and advocacy. The program mandates a resident-completed independent research project with assigned faculty mentors and a research committee, reflecting a genuine expectation of scholarly output rather than optional exposure, and is chaired by a physician-scientist with a departmental push toward NIH-funded, translational, and health-equity research. Curriculum design emphasizes broad subspecialty ambulatory exposure, night-float call structure, four-to-seven blocks of individualized elective time per year for career tailoring, and an optional global health elective in Tanzania, supporting both general pediatrics and fellowship-bound trajectories. The explicit dual outcome goal (general pediatrics or subspecialty fellowship) alongside the tri-institutional oncology, cardiology, and orthopedic exposures signals a program oriented toward residents who want rigorous subspecialty depth balanced with structured research training.