Leading US residency programme directors connect with WCM-Q

Leading US residency programme directors connect with WCM-Q

Professors from elite US healthcare institutions virtually connected with students and faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar during the annual Visiting Professorship Programme (VPP), this year held online for the first time owing to the pandemic.

THE VPP was established in 2013 to introduce WCM-Q as an elite international medical school that graduates students who are extremely well prepared to enter residency training at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and internationally, and for the visiting professors to share their expertise with the faculty and students.

The two-day VPP was student-centric and gave WCM-Q students a myriad of opportunities to explore medical career options and ask questions about preparation for residency training.

Participating in this year’s programme were visiting professors from ten leading US medical schools: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Group-Comprehensive Family Care Centre, University of Iowa Health Care, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Mountain Area Health Education Center, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University/Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Centre, Riverside University Health System, and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. The visiting professors are specialised in emergency medicine, internal medicine,