Medical Students

The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center offers courses for Weill Cornell Medical College students as early as the first year.

First-year courses include:

• Anatomy Laboratory — students participate in dissection of the heart and lungs
• Physiology of the Heart and Diseases of the Heart

Third- and fourth-year lectures:

• Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Postoperative Monitoring
• Surgical Treatment of Valvular Disease
• Surgical Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease

Third-year students can elect to do a one-week rotation with Cardiac Surgery. Third-year and fourth-year students can also elect to do a two-week or four week rotation called "Subinternship in Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery."