Weiler Hospital, Montefiore Health System, Einstein CampusDr. Serena Roth has been appointed the new site leader for the Department of Medicine third-year clerkship on the Einstein campus (Weiler Hospital).
Montefiore Health System’s Weiler Hospital is Einstein’s third largest clerkship site, offering students a wealth of hands-on experience treating patients with multiple co-morbidities including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, HIV/AIDS, COPD, and cirrhosis. Students are encouraged to take full ownership of their patients and work closely with the full interdisciplinary team in managing care. The Weiler Campus site is routinely highly ranked by the students for its breadth of patient experience and excellence of faculty and housestaff teaching.
The clerkship emphasizes the importance of compassionate patient care with attention to communication skills, sociocultural and economic factors, as well as ethical issues in clinical decision making.
Serena Roth, MDDr. Roth is a general internist with a special interest in the management of patients with chronic pain. She completed a medical degree at NYU School of Medicine and a primary care/internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania. Following residency, she conducted tuberculosis research in Bangkok, Thailand at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Dr. Roth joined the Montefiore Einstein Division of General Internal Medicine in 2011 as a clinical educator. She is active in medical student and resident education, and served as the fourth-year medical student Ambulatory Clerkship site leader from 2014 to 2016.
"I am honored and excited to be the new clerkship site leader at Weiler. The position is an exciting opportunity to become more involved with our wonderful Einstein students, and I look forward to this new role," said Dr. Roth.
"Dr. Roth will be a wonderful clerkship site leader," said Dr. Amanda Raff, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Nephrology) and Associate Chair of Medicine for Undergraduate Medical Education. "Having served as the Ambulatory Clerkship site leader for the FCC and CFCC clinics for the past two years, she is ready to take on the Clerkship at full speed given her experience and enthusiasm as a medical educator."
Published January 31, 2016