November 18, 2016
Recently the Weill Cornell Community Clinic was featured in the Weill Cornell Medicine Magazine, the second of such articles since the WCCC opened its doors ten-and-a-half years ago. The WCCC was recognized for its work as a free clinic, providing high quality care for uninsured patients in New York City, and because of the role we serve as a philanthropic outlet for students, physicians, and NYP social workers. WCCC provides an innovative and engaging source of service learning for the student...
November 2, 2016
Recently members of our board attended the NY Conference for Student Run Clinics. This conference allows students from medical schools all over the state who participate in their medical schools’ free clinics to come together and share best practices and brainstorm about potential issues facing the clinics and how to overcome them.
The outgoing Pharmacy Chairs also presented a poster on a quality improvement project to improve utilization of the clinics reimbursement policy while decreasing the...
April 30, 2016
From board member Katie Wilcox:
On Friday, April 22, the Weill Cornell Community Clinic participated in the Lenox Hill Community House Health Fair. The Lenox Hill Community House provides a broad scope of support for the local community, including health and wellness, adult education, legal advocacy, after school programs, and much more. The Health Fair allows for health screening and counseling for Lenox Hill families who do not have regular access to health care, due to immigration status,...
February 22, 2016
From our Continuity of Care coordinator, Marcela Toro Bejarano:
The Continuity of Care Program was established to improve the quality of care delivered to our patients at WCCC by pairing them with first and second year medical students. Sometimes certain barriers such as language and education differences or the complexity of the healthcare system may hinder effective healthcare delivery. However, when patients see a familiar face every time they come to the clinic, it may give them a sense of...
December 10, 2015
The 2015-2016 Weill Cornell Community Clinic Board is hard at work to make sure we provide quality health care for all of our patients. Curious about how the clinic works? Here are what our first-year medical student coordinators are up to!
Patient Services Coordinators – Alexandra Miller & Ilana Scandariato
Alex and Ilana reach out to patients and schedule them for appointments. In cases of cancellations, they find and schedule available patients to make sure that WCCC resources are well-...
June 29, 2015
By Timothy Judson, MD MPH
Former clinical co-director of the Weill Cornell Community Clinic and current UCSF medicine resident
It was spring of 2015 and I was in Munich, Germany for an international health policy rotation. In a mater of weeks, I would graduate and complete four years of intensively accruing medical knowledge.
I stood with medical students from Ludwig Maximilian University as our six-member team rounded on patients on the cardiac inpatient floor. The German medical jargon was...
