Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
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The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education is a seven-year medical program that was established at The City College of the City University of New York in New York City. It offers an integrated baccalaureate education with preclinical medical education and has a twofold mission: to expand access to medical careers among inner-city youths, particularly among underrepresented minorities, and to encourage the pursuit of primary care specialties among its graduates.
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[edit] History
Established in 1973 to address the growing need in the United States -- especially in inner city areas -- for primary care physicians, the school began as a destination for talented New York City high school graduates of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Its has a rigorous course curriculum where most of its graduates become general physicians.
In 1974, it was sued by the Anti-Defamation League due to the school keeping out many caucasian students because they were not minorities (the league was primarily concerned with those of Jewish descent). The League won the suit.
It is named after Sophie Kesner, who was Leonard Davis's wife, because Mr. Davis, a graduate of CCNY, was a major benefactor of the school.
Program Offered
BS/MD (Bachelor of Science / Medical Doctorate)
Curriculum
First Year (Fall)
Biology of Organisms
General Physics I
English
World Civilizations
First Year (Spring)
General Chemistry
General Physics II
World Humanities I or II
Second Year (Fall)
Organic Chemistry
Genetics
Biostatistics
Second Year (Spring) / Third Year (Fall)
Molecules to Cells I, II
Health, Medicine, and Society I, II, III, IV
Philosophy of the Rational Animal
Third Year (Spring)
Structure (Gross Anatomy/ Embryology / Organ Imaging / Histology)
Neuroscience
Fourth Year (Fall)
Behavioral Medicine
Systemic Functions
Patient-Doctor I
Health, Medicine, and Society V
Fourth Year (Spring)
Medical Pharmacology
Host Defense, Immunology, and Pathogenesis
Patient-Doctor II
Fifth Year (Fall)
System Pathology
Introduction to Clinical Medicine I
Clinical Decision Making and Evidence-Based Medicine
Fifth Year (Spring)
Physical Diagnosis
Introduction to Clinical Medicine II
[edit] Location
Address: 160 Convent Ave, Harris Hall, Room 107, New York, NY 10031
In 2003 it moved into its permanent home in Townsend Harris Hall, which had been renovated as part of CCNY's Terra Cotta Restoration Project, and to build modern teaching capabilities into its classrooms, seminar rooms, a long-distance conference room, and teaching laboratories.
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