A meeting of medical minds


 

Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, right, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s provost for medical affairs, recently met with Cayuga Medical Center President and CEO John Rudd to discuss their collaborative work.

In 2008, Weill Cornell Medicine and physicians affiliated with Cayuga Medical Center established a residency elective and primary care clerkship to expose doctors-in-training to health care in rural areas. This partnership was recognized with a Cornell Town-Gown Award in 2016.

This collaboration will now be further enhanced with a New York state rural training track grant that will provide funding to launch a three-year primary care rural residency program. This new initiative will support health equity efforts in sparsely populated areas, where there is a shortage of primary care doctors.

Residents will spend a year at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and two years at Cayuga Medical Center.