Last month, AMSNY Diversity in Medicine pipeline program alumni matched into their residencies. More than half of the graduates chose primary care specialties such as Family Medicine, Internal Medicine and Emergency Care. Learn more about our diversity in medicine programs.

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) unveiled its Enhanced Scholarship Initiative (ESI), a new program offering substantial debt relief for students with demonstrated financial need. The program will launch in the upcoming academic year and will enable qualifying medical students entering in 2019 and thereafter to graduate with a maximum total debt of $75,000. Learn more.

It’s no secret that physicians have stressful jobs. Figuring out how to mitigate and deal with that stress can be a key part of a successful medical career. But while individual physicians seek and find help for their mental health issues privately, the prevailing public perception among physicians is that it just isn’t done.  Learn more.

Originators of the innovative curriculum at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell point to the business savvy “Hedgehog Concept” as a strategy that can be effectively applied to building better approaches to learning in undergraduate medical education. Learn more.

Thirty-two aspiring physician-scientists from the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeonspresented their research posters at the 14th annual MD-PhD Student Research Symposium on April 25. Their research delved into a range of topics, including Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and stem cells. Four of the students gave short talks about their work.  Learn more.

Students from more than a dozen medical schools converged at Albert Einstein College of Medicine on Feb. 24 to learn about how to better provide care for homeless people at a daylong symposium on the topic, organized by the Homeless Outreach Project at Einstein (HOPE). Learn more.

Unlike allopathicmedical schools, which grant Medical Doctor or M.D. degrees, osteopathic medical schools provide Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine or D.O. degrees. Both M.D. and D.O. programs can lead to a career as a physician, but the application process for each type of program is different.  Learn more.

The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Medicine is on average the fourth most diverse medical school in the nation, and the most diverse at a predominantly white institution. CUNY achieves this success through its dedication to an inclusive mission along with several key tactics.  Learn more.

Weill Cornell Medicine honored 17 faculty, trainees, students and staff April 22 for their outstanding service and leadership in promoting diversity at the academic medical institution. The Diversity Awards recognize exemplary contributions-through research, clinical care, community service and advocacy-to improving the health of populations that historically have had unequal access to care. Learn more.

Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and Touro College of Pharmacy in Harlem have appointed Geoffrey E. Eaton director of community affairs and diversity, the colleges announced this week. Eaton has a long history of leadership in Harlem, serving as first vice president of the New York State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation’s most prominent civil rights organization. Learn more.

The New York Medical College (NYMC) School of Medicine (SOM) was proud to induct 33 members of the Class of 2020 into its chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS), an initiative of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, at a ceremony on April 1.  Learn more.

Hyacinth Mason, PhD, assistant dean of Student Support and Inclusion and associate professor in the Department of Medical Education and Family and Community Medicine, received first place at the Association of American Medical College’s (AAMC)’s Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (GEA) conference for her presentation “The Path through Medical School, Does Generation Status Matter?”  Learn more.

Sanjay Gupta, M.D., CNN’s award-winning chief medical correspondent, will deliver the keynote address at the 2019 commencement ceremony for Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, has covered major health stories from around the world.  Learn more.

The New York Iota chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the national medical honor society, welcomed Elliot Levine, M.D, as the Annual AOA Visiting Professor on April 2. Dr. Levine, who is an instructor of medicine and a physician at the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Center of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, specializes in advanced heart failure, transplant cardiology, clinical electrophysiology and nuclear cardiology.  Learn more.

Fifteen medical students from Albany Medical College came to The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY on April 5 and 6 for a two-day intensive healthy cooking course. This pilot program, developed in collaboration by CIA Consulting and Albany Medical College, was designed to teach participants how to choose, prepare, and enjoy a variety of health-promoting foods.  Learn more.

It was a good turnout for the CUNY School of Medicine students who hosted the school’s annual health fair.  The City College campus community came out to receive free screenings including blood pressure, HIV testing, health coaching and dental checkups just to name a few of the activities. Learn more.

On any given week, Dr. Bruce Reidenberg spends a good deal of time on the road. With his old fashioned black doctor’s bag in tow, he drives across three counties north of New York City to visit patients as the Hudson Valley region’s medical director for the New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities. Learn more.

David A. Milling, MD, senior associate dean of student and academic affairs in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has been elected an at-large member of the executive board of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). Learn more.

Each spring, graduating classes from all schools on the campus of Hofstra University choose a faculty member to receive the “Distinguished Teacher of the Year” award. This academic term, students of the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell have chosen David Elkowitz, DO, and Roya Samuels, MD, as “Distinguished Teachers of the Year” for 2018-2019. Learn more.

Lisa Kachnic, MD, one of the nation’s leading radiation oncologists and a pioneer of new approaches to optimize the effectiveness of radiation therapy, has been named chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and chief of the radiation oncology service at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, effective September 1, 2019.  Learn more.