Student interviews with patients and Emergency Department staff members addressed an important topic: meal and food restrictions while patients wait in the Emergency Department. The team's final presentation proposed innovative solutions including implementing color-coded patient wristbands or a sign/messaging attached to the patient's stretcher. These communication modalities would identify if patients are allowed to eat or if there are any other restrictions. We will certainly bring back some of these proposed solutions to our Emergency Department leadership teams and discuss the next steps on potential implementation.  

 

This year, the curriculum was expanded to incorporate more hands-on sessions to include medical simulation sessions as well as sessions on responding to medical emergencies and performing CPR. We also had several Dalton alumni who are current medical students and residents who teach in several of the educational programs.    

 

The Weill Cornell Emergency Department Immersion Program offers students a chance to engage in additional activities such as disaster simulations, shadowing physicians, and participating in departmental meetings and ongoing performance improvement initiatives (volunteers do not perform research or assist medical personnel with procedures). To qualify for the program, candidates must demonstrate academic excellence, interest in medicine and healthcare, professionalism, and a firm commitment to the program. Participants are required to complete 150 hours of service over the 10-month program, with an anticipated time commitment of 4 hours per week scheduled at a mutually convenient time between Monday and Friday.

 

The five students who participated were:

Daniel Khine ‘25

Hannah Diker ‘25

Hana Rashid ‘25

Jonathan Henkin ‘25

Mar Gomez-Koldemir ‘25