AMSNY scholarship recipient and SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University med student Akya Myrie writes in the New York Daily News about the importance to diversify the medical workforce in New York. As a daughter of immigrant parents from Jamaica, Akya has experienced the support of diversity in medicine programs like AMSNY’s pipeline and scholarship programs firsthand. Learn more.

 

The Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) is one of the grant recipients from the FSMB Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB). The grant will fund projects studying the impact of graduating medical students early last year on New York State’s COVID-19 response. Learn more.

 

Medical students in the Class of 2021 at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB learned where they will train in residency at Match Day, a rite of passage for prospective physicians. Learn more.

 

One-hundred forty-five students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai learned what the next phase of their career path would be at Match Day 2021, when each of them opened a carefully sealed envelope that revealed the U.S. residency program they had “matched” to and would be attending this year following graduation. The suspenseful moments leading up to their collective and coordinated noontime “discoveries” were shared over Zoom on Friday, March 19, with 400 participants, including family, friends, and Mount Sinai faculty and staff who supported the Class of 2021 with smiles, cheers, and words of encouragement. Learn more.

 

The results are in and there is reason to celebrate: Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons medical students have again matched to remarkable residencies. At noon on March 19, members of the VP&S Class of 2021 received their match letters via email. Later in the afternoon, many visited the lobby of the Vagelos Education Center to attend a physically distanced event designed to celebrate their achievements while honoring the Columbia University Keep Healthy compact by taking precautions to ensure the safety of participants in the ongoing pandemic. Learn more.

 

The last year has emphasized the vital role of clinicians, who continue to show their resilience in the battle against COVID-19. NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine’s (NYITCOM) Class of 2021 will soon join these heroes on the frontlines. On March 19, the future physicians discovered where their medical education journey would take them next: their residencies. Learn more.

 

As a noon-time gong sounded, fourth-year medical students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine celebrated Match Day today and learned where they will begin the next phase of their training as residents and interns at hospitals and medical centers around the country. With COVID-19 pandemic restrictions still in place, members of the Class of 2021 gathered both virtually and at a socially distanced event on campus, in the housing courtyard and on the athletic courts atop the adjacent parking garage. Learn more.

 

Although the Renaissance School of Medicine’s 2021 Match Day for fourth-year medical students remained a virtual event, there was much celebration for the success of the class as a record 149 students received their residency assignments. Of the students matching to New York State assignments, a record 30 percent (20 of 66) will be staying at Stony Brook Medicine as physicians. Learn more.

 

Members of the New York Medical College School of Medicine Class of 2021 celebrated the next step on their path to becoming physicians on March 19, as they learned where they were matched to medical residency programs and will continue their training for the next several years in their chosen specialty. Although it was not the traditional in-person envelope opening ceremony, students learned where they matched online and a live stream of the event as well as interactive chat rooms allowed the students to celebrate together virtually with family and friends joining in the celebration. Learn more.

 

For Rana Khan, earning a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center was more than just realizing a milestone in her medical education. Match Day was the culmination of a personal journey that transported Khan from medical student to cancer patient to future physician. Learn more.

 

On Friday, March 19, members of the 180th class of NYU Grossman School of Medicine learned the name of the medical institution and residency training program at which their careers as doctors will finally begin. This year, 118 students matched to a spectacular list of top programs across the country. Due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) safety restrictions, this year’s ceremony looked different than past celebrations. Learn more.

 

Match Day, the annual rite of passage for fourth-year medical students nationwide, was celebrated virtually at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell on Friday, March 19, 2021. On Match Day, medical students in their final year of undergraduate medical education learn where they will be spending their residency training. This year, Zucker students were invited to share their big reveal via Zoom conferencing.Learn more.

 

As CUNY School of Medicine celebrates Match Day, 63% matched in Primary Care Specialties and 78% in NYC, Westchester, and Long Island. Watch the 2021 Match Day Celebration. Learn more.

 

Digital health and the tools for patients to virtually reach their healthcare providers have quickly become a mainstay of medical care during the pandemic. Weill Cornell Medicine’s Center for Virtual Care is positioned at the leading edge of this healthcare delivery transformation. Leveraging their years of experience with video visits, the center’s experts train providers how to best use it to give their patients comprehensive, compassionate care. Learn more.

 

As we head into the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, health-care workers have been applauded as heroes for fighting an unpredictable and deadly virus. It’s taken a toll on them physically and mentally, yet applications to medical schools for the 2021 academic year have surged by 18%, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Learn more.

 

The title of Maxine Hayes’ virtual talk in March as part of the Celebration of Inclusiveness in Medicine and Science Distinguished Lecture Series was “Righting the Wrong of Racial Injustice in Health.” It was a title she chose with care. “I didn’t say ‘health care,’ ” she pointed out at the start of her talk, “I said ‘health.’ Health is one of our most precious attributes. If we don’t have health, there is very little we can do in this life. That’s why Martin Luther King Jr. said that of all the injustices, it is the worst.” Learn more.

 

Focusing on the timely topic of access and excess in health care, the Seventh Annual NYMed Talks, organized entirely by New York Medical College School of Medicine (SOM) students, took place virtually on March 11. The daylong, interdisciplinary and interprofessional event, which featured a variety of guest speakers, is designed to expose students studying to work in the health care professions to topics outside of their academic curriculum. Learn more.

 

Teaching embryology – the study of embryos and their development – to medical students is a necessary challenge. It sets the foundation for understanding anatomy, as well as development and disease. A particularly challenging lesson to teach within embryology is embryonic lateral folding.Sarah McConnell, Ph.D. is sitting next to a bookcase knitting. She is wearing a blue shirt and sweater and is smiling with her dark hair pulled back. Sarah McConnell, Ph.D., assistant professor in Neuroscience, was tasked with teaching this method to medical students. Learn more.

 

Roughly a year ago, a team of six medical students from Albany Medical College, co-led by Nevon Song, ’23, along with John Moon, ’20, Arun Chocklingham, ’20, Sara Silberstein, ’22, Peter Inglis, ’21, Sam Fordyce, ’21, and mentor Gary Siskin, MD, professor and chair of the

Department of Radiology, faced off against a team from Yale School of Medicine. They were finalists in a competition hosted by the Society for Interventional Radiology (SIR) that challenged teams from medical schools across the country to come up with an innovative solution to a problem in global health. Learn more.

 

Congratulations are in order to William Fyke, fourth year MD-PhD student in the Neural & Behavioral Science program in Downstate’s School of Graduate Studies (SGS), who is the first student to be trained via the SUNY Downstate-University of Bordeaux cotutelle program. He will receive doctoral degrees from both institutions this year. Learn more.

 

One hundred six poster presentations and four oral presentations capped off new research that was conducted by students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and featured at Mount Sinai’s Fourth Annual Karen Zier, PhD, Medical Student Research Day, held over Zoom in March. Participating in Research Day fulfills one of the medical school’s graduation requirements. Eighty percent of the presenters each year are in their second year of medical school. Learn more.

 

Research is one of the essential underpinnings of medicine, and here at Downstate, it continues to be at the heart of our academic programming, and central to our institutional mission and core offerings. Annually, for nearly 20-years, the College of Medicine (COM) Alumni Association has awarded the “Full Year Research Scholarship” in support of student-led medical research— providing up to $36,000 for students to conduct and complete their investigations throughout the course of one full academic year. Learn more.

 

Alice Fornari, EdD, RD, associate dean for educational skills development at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and vice president of faculty development, Northwell Health, is the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Scholarship from the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE). The IAMSE is a nonprofit professional development society that promotes excellence and innovation in medical education. Learn more.

 

Three things motivated Jerome D. Chao, MD, FACS, and his wife, Katherine, to make a $1 million gift to Albany Med and they all had to do with family. The founder of Chao Plastic Surgery, in Latham, Dr. Chao said he found himself thinking about who had helped him achieve the prolific career he enjoys today—a nearly two-decade run that included seven years of service to Albany Med as chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery. Learn more.

 

A new center that will provide specialized care for patients with Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases will begin seeing patients this summer at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Cohen Center for Health and Recovery from Tick-Borne Diseases, supported by a $16 million gift from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, will be the first in New York City to offer dedicated treatment for people with Lyme and related diseases. Learn more.

 

NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine alumnus Patrick M. O’Shaughnessy (D.O. ’99) has been named chief executive officer and president of Catholic Health (formerly Catholic Health Services). In his new role, effective April 16, O’Shaughnessy will lead a healthcare system that employs approximately 17,000 professionals and operates six Long Island hospitals, along with a network of physician practices and a home nursing and hospice service. Learn more.

 

In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, psychologist and professor at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine Dr. Jeffrey Gardere offers some mental health tips for dealing with the tragedy and moving forward. Learn more.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine Student and Parents Roll Up Their Sleeves for COVID-19 Vaccine Trial

 

Caroline Boyle figured the odds were in her favor. Two people would receive the real vaccine for each person who got a placebo injection. So the second-year Einstein medical student was happy to enroll last December when the Einstein-Montefiore trial site was seeking volunteers to test the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine. Learn more.