Quinnipiac University’s Netter School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital and St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center will continue their partnership with the University of Oxford on a clinical neurosciences exchange program.
Two Oxford medical students started July 22 on a three-week clinical rotation at the Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital in Hartford, primary partner for Quinnipiac’s Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine. They also will spend time at St. Francis Hospital and the Netter School to study the American comprehensive continuum-of-care model, which differs from the less integrated approach to neurology patients taken by hospitals in the UK.
Beginning Sept. 2, two medical students from the Netter School will participate in the six-week program, comprising two weeks of intensive seminars at the University of Oxford and four weeks of clinical neurology at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, a large teaching hospital and leading center for medical research.
“This is the first phase of a partnership that we hope will result in a long-term sustainable relationship between Quinnipiac, Oxford and Mount Sinai,” said Robert Krug, MD who is leading the exchange program at QU and also is president and executive medical director of Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital. “Not only is this an incredible opportunity for medical students at the Netter School and the University of Oxford, but we believe both institutions will benefit from the collaboration.”
