Highlights The National Conference on Medical Student Mental Health and Well-Being is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary forum to examine the mental health needs of medical students. It will focuses on the causes of psychological distress in medical students, with the goal of identifying improved strategies for detection, treatment, and prevention of mental illness. The program is hosted by Weill Cornell… Read More

Highlights Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons: Bringing Physicians up to Speed on Precision Medicine Precision medicine has arrived, but many physicians do not have the training or time to incorporate genetic sequencing technologies into everyday practice. In two articles published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine, precision medicine experts at Columbia… Read More

Highlights 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. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Launches Enhanced Scholarship Initiative The Icahn School of… Read More

Highlights Governor Cuomo Announces Inaugural NYFIRST Grant Recipients   Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the inaugural grant recipients from the New York Fund for Innovation in Research and Scientific Talent, a $15 million medical school capital funding program to encourage recruitment and retention of exceptional life sciences researchers focused on translational research. The first… Read More

Highlights SUNY Upstate Medical University Adds More Colleges, Universities to its Accelerated Scholars Program Upstate Medical University’s Accelerated Scholars Program, which guarantees a student’s admission to medical school when he or she is admitted to a partner undergraduate institution, is about to go from three partner schools to potentially more than 15. Learn more. Jacobs School… Read More

Highlights Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons: New “Smart Drug” Shows Promise for Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer A new “smart drug” has shown promise for women with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, based on data from a clinical trial at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center of Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and other centers…. Read More

Highlights USA Today: After Decades of Effort, African-American Enrollment in Medical School Still Lags USA TODAY examined medical school enrollment after the wide coverage of the racially controversial photo that appeared in the 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook entry of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. AMSNY shares what is being done in New York to increase diversity in medicine.  Learn more…. Read More

Highlights Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at University at Buffalo: Concussion Treatment Adolescent athletes who sustained concussions while playing a sport recovered more quickly when they underwent a supervised, aerobic exercise regimen, a study published Feb. 4 in JAMA Pediatrics has found. An editorial in the journal called it “a landmark study.” The study,… Read More

Highlights AMSNY Seeks to Expand Diversity in Medicine Pipeline Programs AMSNY is hard at work, advocating for an expansion of state funding for diversity in medicine pipeline programs and scholarships. The state has supported successful programs run by AMSNY in partnership with medical schools across the state for over 25 years, and funded a new scholarship launched by… Read More