Rebecca Shulhof, MD (she/her)

Family physician in the Bronx · Medical school admissions interviewer · Bronx, New York

About

I'm a family doctor who has spent most of my career in community health centers in the West and South Bronx, where a visit for blood pressure is often also a visit about rent, a grandchild or a pharmacy that closed. I teach medical students in my clinic and I've interviewed applicants to Einstein's MD program for nine years. I read the whole file before we meet, and I'll usually ask about something specific in it - a grade, a dorm, an hour count. I'm not trying to catch anyone; I want to hear the version that didn't fit in the essay.

Experience

Concourse Community Health Partners (Bronx, NY) - Attending Family Physician, 2014 - present - Full panel of about 1,600 adult and pediatric patients; group visits for diabetes in Spanish and English. - Medical director of the teaching practice since 2021; precepts third-year family medicine clerks.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY) - Faculty admissions interviewer, 2017 - present - Interviews about 30 MD applicants a year; small-group facilitator in the first-year clinical skills course.

Harlem River Family Practice (New York, NY) - Staff Physician, 2010 - 2014 - Started a walk-in Saturday clinic for patients who couldn't leave work on weekdays.

Education

Residency, Family Medicine, Hudson Valley Family Medicine Residency, 2007 - 2010
MD, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, 2007
BA, Sociology, Brandeis University, 2001. Worked two years as a caseworker at a Brooklyn housing nonprofit before medical school.

Volunteering

Volunteer physician, a Bronx church-basement free clinic, one Tuesday evening a month (2012 - present)
Board member, a neighborhood community garden in Mott Haven

Languages

English (native), Spanish (professional), Yiddish (from my grandmother; a little)

Interests

Runs the Bronx 10 Mile most years, slowly. Reads mystery novels on the subway. Grows far too many tomatoes.