Yoon Kang

Biographic Data

ID7719902
NAMEYoon Kang
GIVEN NAMESYoon
FAMILY NAMEKang
SIGNATUREKANG Y
AFFILIATIONSWeill Cornell Medicine
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Approaching Potential Mentors as a Medical Student

    Open AccessHannah D Krinsky, Yoon Kang et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023

  • Guiding principles for undergraduate medical education in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic

    David Muller, Valerie Parkas et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2021

    As the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York City's medical schools experienced dramatic disruptions in every aspect of medical education. Remote learning was created, seemingly overnight, clerkships were disrupted, licensing examinations were cancelled, teaching faculty were redeployed, student volunteers rallied, and everyone was required to shelter at home. Seismic changes were required to adapt the authors' educational programs t…

  • Transitioning preclinical students into clerkships amidst curricular disruptions from the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessErnie Esquivel, Ernie L Esquivel et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruptions to medical education. The patient care space was unavailable as a learning environment, which compounded the complexity of preparing students for clerkships with a traditional transition to clerkship (TTC) curriculum. We developed a multimodal, structured approach to re-introduce students to the clinical space prior to the start of clerkships. 105 second year medical students completed a 4…

  • Curricular response to Covid-19

    Open AccessJoseph E Safdieh, Jennifer I Lee et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2021

    Introduction . The COVID-19 pandemic placed an unprecedented strain on academic healthcare systems necessitating a pause in medical student teaching in clinical care settings, including at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM). WCM had a preexisting telemedicine curriculum, but limited opportunities for students to apply knowledge and skills related to direct virtual patient care. The authors describe the rapid implementation of real-time interactive tele…

  • Weill Cornell Medicine

    Yoon Kang, Peter M Marzuk et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    Medical Education Program Highlights Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) redesigned its curriculum with the class of 2018 as the inaugural graduating class to participate in the new 4-year program: One focus was strategic interfaces of foundational and clinical content with patient-centered experiences from day 1. WCM has consistently been a leader in the proportion of graduates who enter academic medicine. Another hallmark of the new curriculum is the …

  • Debt-Free Medical Education—A Tool for Health Care Workforce Diversity

    Open AccessYoon Hee Kang, Yoon Kang et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2020

    Marked disparities in health care access and outcomes by race, gender, geography, and wealth remain, in part driven by social determinants of health. The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has served to further expose these deep-seated disparities in health and health care in the United States

  • Teaching medical students a clinical approach to altered mental status

    Open AccessJeremy Sperling, Jeremy D Sperling et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2013

    Students who participated in a simulation exercise performed better on a knowledge-based test and reported increased comfort and perceived competence in their clinical approach to AMS. SBME shows significant promise for teaching clinical skills to medical students during pre-clinical curriculum

  • Standardized patient outcomes trial (SPOT) in neurology

    Open AccessJoseph E Safdieh, Andrew Lin et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2011

    SP sessions are an effective tool for teaching the neurologic examination. We determined that a single, structured SP session conducted as an adjunct to our traditional lectures and small groups is associated with a statistically significant improvement in student performance measured 2 years after the session

  • Pilot of Direct Observation of Clinical Skills (Docs) in a Medicine Clerkship

    Open AccessYoon Kang, Charles L Bardes et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2009

    These data support the feasibility of the DOCS session for formative assessment of student interviewing, physical examination, and oral case presentation skills during a medicine clerkship. Observer ratings from DOCS physical examination and case presentation sections were found to be predictors of final clerkship grade

  • Pilot of Direct Observation of Clinical Skills (Docs) in a Medicine Clerkship

    Open AccessYoon Kang, Kang Yoon et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2009

    Purpose: To assess the feasibility of Direct Observation of Clinical Skills (DOCS), a program for formative assessment of students’ clinical skills during a medicine clerkship and to determine relationships between DOCS measures and other clinical performance measures.Method: From August, 2004 through June, 2005, Medicine Clerks assigned to the primary on-campus clinical site were asked to participate in the pilot phase of the DOCS program. Stude…

  • Pilot of Direct Observation of Clinical Skills (Docs) in a Medicine Clerkship

    Open AccessYoon Kang, Charles L Bardes et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2009