The SUNY Downstate College of Medicine is one of the seven medical schools located in New York City and the sole medical school in the borough of Brooklyn, serving its 2.6 million residents.
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Medical education
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine's Integrated Pathways curriculum addresses several core competencies - Medical Knowledge, Systems Based Practice, Professionalism, Interpersonal & Communications, Practice Based Learning and Improvement and Patient Care. Each of these must be completed to be awarded an M.D.
The college of medicine offers several pathways to graduation including joint degree programs and special tracks including:
- MD/Ph.D.
- MD/MPH
- MD Medical Educators Pathway
- MD Clinical Neuroscience Pathway
- MD Global Health Pathway
In clinical years students rotate at several different hospitals including:
- University Hospital of Brooklyn (In-house)
- Kings County Hospital (In-house) - named the first level 1 trauma center in the US and the only level 1 pediatric trauma center in Brooklyn
- Downstate at Bay Ridge (In-house)
- Brooklyn Veterans Administration Hospital
- Lenox Hill Hospital
- North Shore University Hospital
- Staten Island University Hospital
- New York Methodist Hospital
In 2015, SUNY Downstate students matched to almost 18% of all offered EM/IM combined residency positions. 26 additional students matched to emergency medicine programs at top institution including UCLA and the University of Pittsburgh, both renowned for their emergency medicine care.
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Admissions
The 2013 entering class averaged an undergraduate GPA of 3.7 and MCAT of 33. In the same cycle 5396 prospective students applied for 188 spots in the first year class.
Student activities
The Anne Kastor Brooklyn Free Clinic
The Anne Kastor Brooklyn Free Clinic (BFC) is a student-run free clinic operated primarily by the students of the College of Medicine. The BFC offers care and health maintenance screening to the uninsured populations of Brooklyn. The clinic was renamed The Anne Kastor Brooklyn Free Clinic in memory of Anne Kastor who helped founding faculty member of the clinic and passed from ovarian cancer in 2013. So dedicated to the spirit of student run clinics, Dr. Kastor went on to become the Director of the Weil Cornell Community Clinic at Weil Cornell Medical College.
The clinic hosts an annual conference on health seen through the eyes of medicine, art, technology and community called BFC What's Next. The clinic has won multiple awards for its advertisement campaigns including a gold medal in conjunction with CDMiConnect at the 2014 MMM Awards for their "We Need U" campaign and a bronze medal at the CLIO Healthcare Awards.
The BFC operates several clinical, educational and outreach services including:
- Women's Health Night - One night per month dedicated to issues of women's health
- Work Physical Night - One night per month dedicated providing work clearance and helping increase community productivity
- BFC Community Outreach - Engagement in surrounding neighborhood
- BFC RISE (Routine Intervention through Screening and Education) - HIV/HCV counseling, syringe exchange counseling and harm reduction.
- Emergency Response - Responsible for clinic mobilization in case of emergency (e.g. mobile clinic establishment in Red Hook during Hurricane Sandy)
- Pharmacy Assistance
- Patient Education and Health Promotion
Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health
In 1992, Arthur Ashe established the Institute in partnership with SUNY Downstate intentionally, moved by the institution's long history of serving immigrants and low-income Brooklyn residents as well as staff and faculty's research.The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, located in multi-ethnic Brooklyn, collaborates with community members to design, incubate and replicate neighborhood-based interventions that address health conditions that disproportionately affect minorities.Recognizing the complexity of the economic and social determinants of health, we partner with a wide variety of grassroots and institutional organizations to provide After-school science enrichment,Outreach initiatives in trusted venues, Research and advocacy.
Students For Social Responsibility
Students For Social Responsibility (SSR) is a student-run organization dedicated to enganging the school's surrounding community by partnering with churches, shelters and community centers to deliver health screenings and basic vaccinations to at risk populations which make up the local community.
Recently, the organization partnered with the very successful Arthur Ashe Insititure for Urban Health founded by the renowned tennis player Arthur Ashe to immerse students in the community to provide basic health services and education in various community spaces including barbershops, salons, churches and recreation centers. This plays off the already success model of the Arthur Ashe Institute in which community health workers engage community members in social forums of the same type.
Downstate Dialogues
As the Downstate division of White Coats for Black Lives, the group seeks
...to foster conversations regarding the larger structural issues underlying many of our nation's health care problems. We recognize that we are working within a system that is designed to give lower quality healthcare to the people who are most disempowered and marginalized. Through readings and discussion, we hope to promote fair-minded, critical thinking both within our university community and in the greater society. Our goal is to build communication skills and our ability to collaborate, learn, and work in diverse environments. To achieve this, we will create safe spaces for differing opinions and perspectives. We believe that, in order to work and live with one another, we must embrace our differences and recognize shared experiences. By providing students with an opportunity to learn from each other, we hope to build a welcoming and engaged campus community and, ultimately, ensure that every student becomes a socially-conscious health care provider.
In spring 2015, the group wrote an appeal to the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Vivek Murthy, petitioning his office to address issues of racism and structural violence. The petition was signed by over 1000 current medical students and allies from institutions across the country.
Downstate Ethics Society
In partnership with the John Conley Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the medical center, the society aims to expose students to ethical issues surrounding all aspects of health care.
Other clubs and organizations
Clubs and societies at SUNY Downstate are not limited to the college of medicine but also involve the other schools at SUNY Downstate including the College of Health Related Professions (CHRP), College of Nursing, School of Graduate Studies and School of Public Health. Clubs are tailored to a diverse range of interests including human rights, music, ethnic dialogues, ethics, specialty interest groups and global health among many other things. Keriann Shalvoy of the class of 2017 currently sits on the Board of Directors for Physicians for a National Health Program - NY Metro.
Facilities
The College of Medicine is located at 450 Clarkson Avenue in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of the preclinical learning activities take place in the Health Sciences Education Building located at 395 Lenox Road.
Clinical rotations take place at University Hospital of Brooklyn (UHB); the main teaching hospital at SUNY Downstate, Kings County Hospital Center, located just across the street from UHB, the Brooklyn Veteran's Administration Hospital, Staten Island University Hospital among other places.
History
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine was founded in 1860 as the Long Island College Hospital school of medicine. The site where the Downstate Medical Center stands was purchased in 1946. In 1950 the State University merged with Long Island College Hospital to form SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
Notable physicians and researchers
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