New York University School of Medicine

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NYU School of Medicine
Type Private
Established 1841
Dean Robert I. Grossman
Students 657 MD students[1]
242 PhD students[1]
68 MD/PhD students[1]
Location New York, NY, USA
40°44′31″N 73°58′28″W / 40.74205°N 73.97444°W / 40.74205; -73.97444Coordinates: 40°44′31″N 73°58′28″W / 40.74205°N 73.97444°W / 40.74205; -73.97444
Campus Urban
Colors Violet and white          
Website http://school.med.nyu.edu

The New York University School of Medicine is one of the graduate schools of New York University. Founded in 1841 as the University Medical College, the NYU School of Medicine is one of the foremost medical schools in the United States, ranking 14th in research according to U.S. News & World Report.[2]

The School of Medicine is part of NYU Langone Medical Center, named after Kenneth Langone, the investment banker and financial backer of the Home Depot. It is located at 550 First Avenue in New York City. The School of Medicine has 1,177 full-time faculty and 3,091 part-time faculty. Additionally, there are 104 endowed professorships, 1,078 residents/fellows, 68 M.D./Ph.D. candidates and 400 postdoctoral fellows as of 2011.[1][3] The NYU Medical Center is home to the School of Medicine, the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, and the Charles C. Harris Skin & Cancer Pavilion - the most prestigious dermatology institute in the United States and the nation's #1 dermatology training program as ranked by U.S. News & World Report.[4]

In 2012-13, NYU Langone Medical Center was also recognized on the U.S. News & World Report "Best Hospitals Honor Roll," ranking 11th among the top hospitals in the nation with 13 nationally ranked specialties including cancer, cardiology & heart surgery, neurology & neurosurgery, orthopedics, diabetes & endocrinology, nephrology, geriatrics, gastroenterology, ear, nose & throat, rehabilitation, pulmonology, rheumatology, and urology.[5]

Medical education

New York University School of Medicine has recently implemented the curriculum for the 21st century.[6] The new curriculum consists of 18 months of basic science and two and a half years of clinical training. Students take the USMLE Step 1 exam after the clerkship year (with the exception of MD/PhD students, who take it before starting their PhD work). This allows students additional time to take electives, conduct research, or go on away rotations. Other features of the curriculum include NYU3T (a joint program with the New York University College of Nursing) and PLACE (Patient-Based Longitudinal Ambulatory Care Experience).

The NYU School of Medicine also offers several 5-year joint degree programs, some of which can be optionally completed in 4 years.:[7]

Since 1964, NYU School of Medicine has offered MD/PhD dual degree training through the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP).

Recently, NYU School of Medicine has introduced a 3-year MD program based on the program first pioneered in Canada at McMaster University Medical School in 1965. The 3-year program can only be applied to by students accepted into the 4 year stream. 3-year program students are guaranteed a residency placement in their specialty of choice at NYU Langone Medical Center. They complete their preclinical training at the same time as 4 year students, however they start clinical rotations 6 weeks earlier and also spend the summer after their first year doing a summer fellowship in the department of their specialty of choice.[8]

Admissions

Admission to NYU School of Medicine is among the most selective in the country. For the Class of 2019, NYU received 7,807 applications and interviewed 1027 applicants for a class of 132 medical students. The matriculating class had a median GPA of 3.87 and a MCAT score of 36, with 33% of the incoming class being underrepresented minorities.

Facilities

The main NYU Langone Medical Center campus is located at the East River waterfront at 1st Ave. between 30th and 34th street. It hosts the NYU School of Medicine, Tisch Hospital and the Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. Other NYU Langone Medical Center facilities across the city include the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute, the NYU Cancer Center on 34th Street, and Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn. NYU Langone Medical Center also has a long-standing affiliation with the Bellevue Hospital, NYU's principal teaching hospital, of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and with the Manhattan Veteran's Affairs Hospital.[9]

Most recently, the NYU School of Medicine opened a new emergency simulation center at Bellevue Hospital in a joint effort with the City University of New York. Medical students, nurses, EMTs, and other medical staff will be able to practice and refine their skills on state-of-the-art mannequins, as well as actors playing standardized patients.[10]

Research facilities include the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences[11] and the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine.[12]

History

New York University College of Medicine was established in 1841. The medical school merged with Bellevue Medical College in 1898 to form the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. The present name was adopted in 1960.

The NYU School of Medicine is home to many key advancements in medical education. In 1854, human dissection in New York was legalized due to efforts of the faculty. In 1884, the Carnegie Laboratory, the first facility in the U.S. devoted to teaching and research in bacteriology and pathology, was established at NYU. In 1932, the first department of forensic medicine in the U.S. was established at NYU. In 1941, NYU opened the first department of physical medicine and rehabilitation in the U.S. The Institute and Department of Environmental Medicine were established in 1964. In 1980, NYU professor Saul Krugman, M.D., developed the first vaccine against hepatitis B.

In 1866, NYU professors produced a report for the Council of Hygiene and Public Health which led to establishment of New York City's Health Department. The same year, NYU opened the first outpatient clinic in the United States. In 1872, NYU Professor Steven Smith founded the American Public Health Association. In 1899, NYU graduate Walter Reed discovered the mosquito transmission of yellow fever. The 1993 construction of the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine is the largest building project in history of NYU.

During World War II, NYU College of Medicine was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.[13]

Relationship with Mount Sinai School of Medicine

In 1998, the Mount Sinai-NYU Health System was established when the NYU Medical System merged with Mount Sinai Hospitals. The joint organization included Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens, Tisch Hospital, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute, NYU Downtown Hospital, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The merger made NYU the only private university in the country with two medical schools.[14] The union dissolved in 2003 while confronting a shared debt of $665.6 million, but NYU continued to award Mount Sinai's degrees. In 2010, however, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine was accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and became an independent degree-granting institution without a university affiliation for the first time in its history.[15]

Evolution of the New York University School of Medicine

Timeline of notable events and discoveries

Smilow Research building

Institutional Pedigrees

Institutional Pedigree of the New York University School of Medicine
New York University Medical College founded 1841[19]   →              
      1898[19] merge   →   University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College   →   1960 name change   →   New York University Medical School
Bellevue Hospital Medical College founded 1861[19]   →              

Institutional Pedigree of the New York University Hospital
Red Cross Hospital founded 1893[20] → 1914 name change[21] → Park Hospital →    
     
Demilt Dispensary founded 1851[22] →   1922 merge[23] created Reconstruction Hospital  →    
         
  Clinic for Functional Re-education founded 1918[24] →        
     
Post Graduate Hospital founded 1882[25] →   Reconstruction Hospital absorbed into Post Graduate Hospital in 1929[26] →    
    1948 merge created University Hospital
New York Skin and Cancer Hospital founded 1883[27]   →    

Notable people

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 "NYU Langone Medical Center Annual Report 2011".
  2. ↑ "U.S. News Best Medical Schools: Research".
  3. ↑ "Title unknown". (subscription required)
  4. ↑ "Top Medical Residency Programs - Residency Navigator". Doximity. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "U.S. News Best Hospital 2012-13 Honor Roll".
  6. ↑ Curriculum for the 21st Century: School of Medicine Adopts a New Approach to Medical Education
  7. ↑ Program Information
  8. ↑ "Three-Year MD Pathway". NYU. NYU. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  9. ↑ "Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions". Answers.com. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "Emergency Simulation Center Nearly Ready At Bellevue" New York Times Sep 4, 2011
  11. ↑ "The Sackler Institute". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  12. ↑ anonymous. "Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "Biography of Victor Parsonnet". Heart Rhythm Society. December 23, 1998. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
  14. ↑ Fein, Esther B. After Earlier Failure, N.Y.U. and Mount Sinai Medical Centers to Merge." The New York Times, 25 January 1998.
  15. ↑ MSSM Accreditation Retrieved January 11, 2011
  16. ↑ Shelley, Walter (1 October 1954). "MD". AMA Archives of Dermatology 70 (4): 411–416. doi:10.1001/archderm.1954.01540220013002.
  17. ↑ "The Sir Harold Acton Society."
  18. ↑ "Acton Society Adds New Million–Dollar Donors". Global Health Nexus spring 2007. NYU College of Dentistry. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  19. 1 2 3 Friss, Evan (December 6, 2004), "Chronicles: A Look at NYU’s Past; Practicing Medicine Through the Years", NYU Today (New York: New York University, Office of Public Affairs) 18 (5), OCLC 37719351
  20. ↑ Dock, Lavinia L.; Pickett, Sarah Elizabeth; Noyes, Clara D.; Clement, Fannie F.; Fox, Elizabeth G.; Van Meter, Anna R. (1922), History of American Red Cross Nursing, New York: The Macmillan Company, p. 23, OCLC 1170933.
  21. ↑ Dock, et al. (1922) p. 35.
  22. ↑ "THE DEMILT DISPENSARY.; Anniversary Celebration", The New York Times, March 27, 1855
  23. ↑ "RECONSTRUCTION PLANS TO EXTEND HOSPITAL; $1,500,000 Needed for Expansion and Equipment to Make It Self-Supporting", The New York Times, January 29, 1922
  24. ↑ New York State Legislature (1920), "Dispensaries Licensed", New York Legislative Documents (Albany, New York: J.B. Lyon Company) XIX (38): 186
  25. ↑ "MENTAL CLINIC AIMS AT WIDER SERVICE; Post-Graduate Hospital Unit Founded by Dr. M.G. Schlapp Marks 47th Anniversary. INDIVIDUAL AID TO PATIENTS Main Purpose Is to Easy Social Burden by Treating Neuroses and Border-Line Cases", The New York Times, November 10, 1929
  26. ↑ "Post Graduate Absorbs", Time (Albany, New York: J.B. Lyon Company) XIV (24), December 9, 1929
  27. ↑ "First Year'S Work Of A Hospital", The New York Times, March 1, 1884

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