This week was the first week of our immersion program. We were generally oriented for the immersion stuffs, getting familiar with the entire hospital system.
Monday after I got my ID card, which was the pass into everywhere in the hospital, I met my clinician mentor, Dr. Martin Prince, in the MR body reading room at 70th NPY Hospital. While observing Dr. Prince and several residents, I got the first experience of Radiology reading and diagnosing: after each patient was scanned, images (MR, CT, X-ray, etc.) are stored and sent to residents, where preliminary analysis and diagnosis were made. Then, the residents would consult and discuss with senior physicians and radiologists to confirm their analysis, make the final diagnosis and treatment suggestions, then write the final report.
Tuesday through Friday, I basically followed Dr. Prince shuffling between different NYP sites, reading cases and observing case review conference. There are 3 major sites with MR reading facilities: Weill Cornell Medical Center (E 70th) , Weill Cornell Imaging at E 55th and Columbia University Medical Center. Patient cases could be viewed across different sites, enabling discussion and collaboration between expertises from different hospitals.
At Saturday, I visited the Cornell MRI lab of Prof. Yi Wang. We had a talk on the plan during immersion and on some ideas about the project for the summer immersion.
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