Maximizing Patients’ Functional Health
Rehabilitation Medicine, also known as physiatry, is a medical specialty that helps patients restore movement and alleviate pain. The aim is to maximize patients’ functional health so they can get back to their daily routines and activities. This week, 30 fellows from...
Pediatric Palliative Care: The Gift of Life
The goal of palliative care is to support children with serious or complicated conditions and their families through clinical care, psychosocial support, research, and education. Care should relieve pain and stress and meet the psychological, social, and spiritual...
Life-Saving Care for Severely Injured Patients
This week, the OMI was all about how to provide immediate life-saving care for patients suffering severe injury. Chief of Trauma, Burns, Acute and Critical Care at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Robert J. Winchell, led the tenth Salzburg Weill Cornell seminar in Trauma...