Joseph Safdieh, Senior Associate Dean for Education, Vice Chair for Education and Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“This year marks the fourth run of our undergraduate clinical immersion program for biomedical engineering students from the Cornell Engineering Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University.
Ten undergraduates spend two weeks at Weill Cornell Medicine, embedded across clinical environments including radiology, pathology, emergency medicine, neurosurgery, neurology, anesthesiology, and plastic surgery.
To be clear, these are not pre-meds. They are future engineers. And they’re here to think like engineers inside the health care system.
They’re asked to observe workflows, communication, inefficiencies, and human factors and to generate ideas and questions that could lead to better systems and better care for patients.
It was great having lunch with them today and hearing how quickly they are already reframing clinical experiences through an engineering lens. Programs like this highlight the power of bringing non-clinical perspectives into medicine early and giving students permission to ask not just how things work, but why they work that way.
Always energizing to spend time with the next generation of problem-solvers.”