Elite US residency programme directors visit WCM-Q to learn about curriculum

Doha, Qatar: Residency programme directors from leading US teaching hospitals and academic health centres visited Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar (WCM Q)...

Doha, Qatar: Residency programme directors from leading US teaching hospitals and academic health centres visited Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) to learn about the curriculum, view the college’s state-of-the-art facilities and offer career development advice to students.  

Held annually, the Visiting Professorship Programme (VPP) was established in 2013 to help residency programme directors become acquainted with WCM-Q as an elite medical school that produces highly competent physician-scientists who are extremely well prepared to enter residency training locally at Hamad Medical Corporation or overseas at world-class academic healthcare institutions. 

The student-focused VPP is held over two days and gives students the chance to explore medical career options and benefit from the expertise of the visiting professors by asking questions about preparation for residency training and the applications process.

This year’s programme welcomed 11 programme directors to WCM-Q from some of the most highly regarded healthcare and education institutions in the US, including Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, (UTHealth Houston), Boston Medical Center, UMass Chan Medical School, Tufts University School of Medicine/Lahey Hospital & Medical Centre, and University of Minnesota Medical Centre/Smiley’s Family Medicine Clinic. 

The visiting professors are directors of residency programmes specialised in internal medicine, surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, anaesthesiology, and family medicine/ambulatory care.