Community Health

Education and Training NewYork-Presbyterian’s community healthcare practices and programs offer rewarding educational opportunities for residents, fellows, and other trainees who share a passion and dedication to improving community health.

Specialized residency programs for pediatrics, adult medicine, and family medicine offer instruction, mentorship, and exposure to a wide range of healthcare issues and challenges, providing unparalleled experience for physicians early in their careers.

Pediatric Resident Training at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Mariellen Lane, MD: mmL2@cumc.columbia.edu Associate Professor of Pediatrics, CUIMC Assistant Program Director for Ambulatory Education, Pediatric Residency Program At NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, 76 pediatric residents train in primary care at four practices: Audubon, Broadway, Washington Heights, and Rangel. Each resident maintains an active patient panel and engages in preventative care, from birth through adolescence. An additional area of resident focus is the care of the medically complex child. Residents participate in interdisciplinary team rounds and in the coordination of the complex care of their patients with social workers, a care manager, community health workers, and pediatric psychiatric nurse practitioners. Each pediatric resident also participates in a resident-driven experiential-based quality improvement (QI) curriculum embedded in his or her ambulatory practice. Residents develop and lead projects that impact patient care, emphasize inter-professional collaborative teamwork, and employ formal QI training methodology. The majority of the projects have been sustained and spread throughout the Ambulatory Care Network over an 11-year period.

Community Pediatric Residents’ Training Program Sumeet Banker, MD MPH: sb3789@cumc.columbia.edu Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, CUIMC Associate Director Community Pediatrics Dodi Meyer, MD: ddm11@columbia.edu Professor of Pediatrics, CUIMC With one-to-one faculty mentorship, residents in the Community Pediatric Track have the opportunity to work on a project, in collaboration with a community health initiative, over three years of training that integrate three core concepts: community health, cultural competency, and advocacy. Trainees benefit from the strong community-academic partnerships between NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and the surrounding community. Future pediatricians work collaboratively to address community healthcare disparities. Residents from this program have presented their work at national meetings.

Quality Improvement Initiatives in the Pediatric Residency Program Mariellen M. Lane, MD: mmL2@columbia.edu Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, CUIMC Assistant Program Director for Ambulatory Education, Pediatric Residency Program Quality Improvement (QI) is one of the focus areas of the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) program of the ACGME. Through the Pediatric Residency experiential learning QI program 50