Medical College Alumni News

Commencement Honors Future Healthcare Leaders

Graduating students in robes

For most of his life, Vishal Patel wanted to be a teacher. But midway through college, he discovered a love for medicine and realized he could combine those two passions by becoming a physician. That journey reached a milestone on May 31 with Dr. Patel’s graduation from Weill Cornell Medical College in front of his family—12 members in all—who celebrated his crossing Carnegie Hall’s iconic stage by brandishing large cardboard cutouts of his face.

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Battling Burnout

Students battle burnout through wellness

By Beth Saulnier
Photos by Stephanie Diani

When Dr. Sandeep “Sunny” Kishore, PhD ’12, MD ’14, gave the commencement speech for the Class of 2014, he stood onstage in Carnegie Hall and confessed something: as a third-year medical student, he’d initially failed his surgical “shelf” exam, one of the rigorous tests given after each core rotation. Having resumed his MD studies after a lauded five years as a doctoral...

Lost and Found

Two women in a field

In the midst of my second year of medical school, I was lost. The never-ending days of lectures, studying and memorizing felt devoid of the deep connection between doctor and patient that had called me to medicine and that I was anxious to cultivate as a student. But more terrifying than my disillusionment was the feeling of absolute isolation as everyone but me appeared passionate about medical school. It wasn’t the first time I’d felt this way. A couple of decades earlier, as a newly...

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