Highlights Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Receives Arnold Gold Foundation’s Recognition for Humanism in Healthcare The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has been awarded the prestigious Arnold Gold Foundation’s “Outstanding” ranking, in recognition of the school’s chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) and its work throughout the school year…. Read More
Highlight Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell Student in Newsday: Fighting COVID-19 is the Right Call to Action I am a proud, first-generation, Chinese American graduating from the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell on April 10 – a month early. My mother’s family is from Wuhan, China, a beautiful metropolitan city… Read More
Highlights AMSNY’s Diversity in Medicine Program Eliminated in State Budget – Take Action! For 29 years, New York State has funded the highly successful Diversity in Medicine Program run by AMSNY, which has helped more than 500 underrepresented in medicine students become doctors. The program has helped diversify the state’s physician workforce, which improves health… Read More
Highlights Introducing Interim Dean Dr. Lawrence Chin at SUNY Upstate Medical University Lawrence S. Chin, MD is the Interim Dean of the College of Medicine and the Robert B. and Molly G. King Endowed Professor of Neurosurgery at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He is a native of Michigan and received his BS and MD degrees from… Read More
Highlights SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University: Renowned Surgeon, Educator, Researcher, Textbook Editor, and Former Downstate Residency Alumni F. Charles Brunicardi, M.D. Named as Senior Vice President and Dean of The College of Medicine SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University president Wayne J. Riley, M.D. announced that F. Charles Brunicardi, M.D. FACS, the Medical College of Ohio… Read More
Feb. 24, 2019, 11:08 AM EST By Shamard Charles, M.D. Braxton Jenkins, 19, with Dr. Clyde Yancy, vice dean for diversity and inclusion at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Jenkins is a graduate of the Northwestern Medicine Scholars Program.Courtesy of Braxton Jenkins and Dr. Clyde Yancy —– Currently, only 10.3 percent… Read More
Eighteen-year-old Joseph Marte is a first year student at CUNY’s 7-year BS/MD program, beginning an educational journey that will result in him achieving his dream of becoming a doctor. That journey started at Staten Island University Hospital’s Physician Career Enhancement Program—a pipeline program for high school students from underrepresented backgrounds who are interested in medicine…. Read More
Highlights Weill Cornell Medicine Wins HEED Award for Diversity and Inclusion In recognition of its outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion, Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine’s 2018 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award. INSIGHT Into Diversity is the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. Learn… Read More
AMSNY is proud to announce our 10 scholarship recipients for 2018-2019! The AMSNY Diversity in Medicine Scholarship has two goals: decrease medical students’ debt load and provide physicians for medically underserved areas in NYS, as students commit to two years of service in a designated underserved area in New York State. The scholarship, which is pegged to… Read More
Joseph Myrie grew up in the Bronx with parents who immigrated from Jamaica and Barbados. He was inspired to pursue medicine both by watching his mother, a nurse, and by his pediatrician, who told him how he could turn his love of science into a career. When Myrie got the opportunity to shadow physicians in… Read More
