Newswise — August 15, 2011 – (BRONX, NY) – While many in the city leave town for the last two weeks of August, students from across the country and around the world will descend on the Bronx to launch their medical careers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. One hundred and eighty-three first-year medical students will arrive on Einstein’s Jack and Pearl Resnick campus Monday, August 15 for a week of orientation and welcoming events that will introduce them to the campus, faculty members and each other.
Members of the M.D. class of 2015 hail from 27 U.S. states and two percent are international students – although 18 percent were born in countries other than the United States, including Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Germany, Ghana, India, the Republic of Korea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Ukraine, and Vietnam. The class is composed of 44 percent women. Thirteen percent are from groups underrepresented in medicine. Students range in age from 20 to 40 years old and more than one in four (27 percent) were non-science majors as undergraduates. Six percent are in the combined M.D./Ph.D. program.
And in keeping with family tradition, more than one in five M.D. students has at least one physician-parent.
The opening week’s events kick off with a welcome by Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean of Einstein, and other senior faculty, and includes a sunset boat cruise around New York harbor, a barbeque and scavenger hunt with faculty, and a Meyers-Briggs-type indicator test to help students better understand their personalities and work styles so they can successfully work alone and in teams. Classes begin on Thursday, August 18. The following week, students will participate in the "On Becoming a Physician" ceremony, in which they will be "coated" (given the doctor’s traditional "white coat").
The week of August 15 also marks the beginning of the Ph.D. program, which this year welcomes 40 new students. Their orientation schedule includes a "big brother/big sister event," in which new students are paired with those later in their Ph.D. process; the student boat cruise with the M.D. students and a trip to the US Open Tennis Championships.
All students will become part of Einstein's heralded tradition of teaching compassionate medicine in an environment that stresses academic excellence, community and global service and collaboration.
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About Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva UniversityAlbert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is one of the nation’s premier centers for research, medical education and clinical investigation. During the 2010-2011 academic year, Einstein is home to 724 M.D. students, 256 Ph.D. students, 122 students in the combined M.D./Ph.D. program, and 375 postdoctoral research fellows. The College of Medicine has 2,770 fulltime faculty members located on the main campus and at its clinical affiliates. In 2009, Einstein received more than $135 million in support from the NIH. This includes the funding of major research centers at Einstein in diabetes, cancer, liver disease, and AIDS. Other areas where the College of Medicine is concentrating its efforts include developmental brain research, neuroscience, cardiac disease, and initiatives to reduce and eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities. Through its extensive affiliation network involving five medical centers in the Bronx, Manhattan and Long Island – which includes Montefiore Medical Center, The University Hospital and Academic Medical Center for Einstein – the College of Medicine runs one of the largest post-graduate medical training programs in the United States, offering approximately 150 residency programs to more than 2,500 physicians in training. For more information, please visit www.einstein.yu.edu.
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