SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
Former names
 Long Island College of Medicine
Motto To Learn, To Search, To Serve
Type Public medical school
Established 1860
Dean Carlos N. Pato, MD[1]
Students 807 [2]
Location Brooklyn, New York
40°39′19″N 73°56′45″W / 40.6554°N 73.9457°W / 40.6554; -73.9457Coordinates: 40°39′19″N 73°56′45″W / 40.6554°N 73.9457°W / 40.6554; -73.9457
Affiliations State University of New York
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Website http://www.downstate.edu

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 2.5 million residents.

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:[3]

In clinical years students rotate at several different hospitals including:[4]

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.[5][6][7]

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.[8]

Student activities


The Anne Kastor Brooklyn Free Clinic

The Anne Kastor Brooklyn Free Clinic (BFC)[9] 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.[10][11] 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.[12]

The clinic hosts an annual conference on health seen through the eyes of medicine, art, technology and community called BFC What's Next.[13] 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[14] and a bronze medal at the CLIO Healthcare Awards.[15]

The BFC operates several clinical, educational and outreach services including:

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. [16]

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.[17]

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.

— White Coats for Black Lives, [18]

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.[19]

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.[20]

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.[21] Keriann Shalvoy of the class of 2017 currently sits on the Board of Directors for Physicians for a National Health Program - NY Metro.[22]

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.[23]

Notable physicians and researchers

  • Louis Bauer - Credited as "the father of orthapaedic surgery in the United States"[24]
  • Henri Begleiter - Former Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Made important discoveries about alcoholics and their offspring.
  • Jeffrey Birnbaum M.D. M.P.H. - Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health. The director of the one of a kind HEAT program offering a wide range of HIV and transgender services to at risk youth in New York City.[25]
  • Jeffrey S. Borer, MD - Professor and Physician in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine is a senior editor of The Medical Roundtable[26]
  • John A. Boockvar - Prominent neurosurgeon and Professor of neurological surgery at Hofstra-North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine graduated from Downstate College of Medicine
  • John K. Chapin, Ph.D. - Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology together with Sanjiv Talwar developed the guided rat at Downstate
  • Howard Choi - Principal editor of the PM&R Handbook and Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mt. Sinai graduated from Downstate College of Medicine
  • James E. Cottrell - Dean for Clinical Practice, Distinguished Service Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology.[27][28]
  • Raymond Vahan Damadian - Former Professor and inventor of the MR Scanning Machine. First person to perform full body MR scan on a human.
  • Clarence Dennis - Chair of the Department of Surgery (1951), inventor of one of the first cardiopulmonary bypass machines. Successfully used his at Downstate in 1955.
  • Marian Dunn, Ph.D. - Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Human Sexuality and member of the advisory panel for BetterSex[29]
  • Richard D. Feinman - Professor of Biochemistry, medical researcher with focus on human metabolism. Dr. Feinman is an outspoken proponent of the low carbohydrate diet of which he has written several papers and a book.
  • Austin Flint - Former Professor of Pathology and Practical Medicine. Founder of Buffalo Medical College (SUNY Buffalo) and identifier or the murmur of severe aortic regurgitation.
  • Robert F. Furchgott - Ph.D. - Recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
  • John Hartung - Professor of Anesthesiology and Associate Editor of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
  • Adrian Kantrowitz - Alumni and inventor of the intra-aortic balloon pump and left ventricular assist device. His team performed the first pediatric heart transplant at Maimonides Medical Center
  • Samuel L. Kountz - Former Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the department. While at Stanford, he performed the first successful kidney transplant between non-identical humans
  • Hans Kraus - Former Associate Professor. Kraus' studies led to President Dwight D. Eisenhower establishing the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. He also served as the secret back doctor to President John F. Kennedy.
  • John Kubie Ph.D - Associate Professor of Cell Biology and contributor to the BrainFacts.org blog[30]
  • Sheldon H. Landesman M.D. - Professor of Medicine and pioneer in the fight against AIDS in Brooklyn[31]
  • Susan Love - Alumni and prominent advocate of preventive breast cancer research. She is currently Professor of Surgery at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  • Stephen Macknik, PhD - Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Physiology & Pharmacology. Neuromagic founder, Scientific American MIND columnist and co-author of the popular book Sleights of Mind.[32][33][34]
  • Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD - Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Physiology & Pharmacology. Co-author of the popular book, Sleights of Mind.[34] She served as a postdoctoral fellow with Nobel Laureate, Professor David Hubel.[35] She is currently the director of the Martinez-Conde Laboratory at Downstate.[36]
  • Samuel Marquez Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Anatomy and paleoanthropology researcher[37]
  • A. L. Mestel - Alumni and pioneer in the field of pediatric surgery. Especially known for the first successful separation of Ischiopagus Tripus conjoined twins
  • James B. Ranck, Jr. - Distinguished Professor of Physiology and discoverer of head direction cells.
  • Todd C. Sacktor M.D. - Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neurology and pioneer in memory research[38]
  • Peter T. Scardino - Professor of Urology and Chair of the Department of Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering
  • Alexander Skene - Completed his medical education at Long Island College Hospital. Gynecologist who described what became known as Skene's glands
  • Ralph Snyderman - Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine at Duke University from 1989 to 2004 graduated from Downstate in 1965
  • T. K. Sreepada Rao - Former Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of Renal Diseases

References

  1. ↑ http://www.downstate.edu/college_of_medicine/deans-message.html, "Dean's Message", 2015
  2. ↑ http://sls.downstate.edu/admissions/com/class_profile.html
  3. ↑ http://sls.downstate.edu/admissions/com/curriculum/index.html#tabs-1
  4. ↑ http://sls.downstate.edu/registrar/class_mtg/documents/QUICKGUIDETOCLERKSHIPS2013.pdf
  5. ↑ http://sls.downstate.edu/student_affairs/residency/placement.html
  6. ↑ http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ADT2015_final.pdf
  7. ↑ https://www.doximity.com/residency_navigator/programs#residency_specialty_id=42
  8. ↑ https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/requirements/msar/
  9. ↑ http://www.brooklynfreeclinic.org/about-bfc/
  10. ↑ Marcus, David (2013). "A Remembrance, Dedicated to Dr. Anne Kastor". emimdoc.org. Retrieved 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  11. ↑ "Anne Sarah Kastor". legacy.com. 2013. Retrieved 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  12. ↑ http://www.weill.cornell.edu/wccc/about-us/clinic-founders.html
  13. ↑ http://bfcconference2014.wix.com/whatsnext2014
  14. ↑ http://awards.mmm-online.com/cdmiconnect-and-brooklyn-free-clinic-we-need-u
  15. ↑ http://www.cliohealthcare.com/catalog/2013/integrated_campaign/
  16. ↑ http://www.arthurasheinstitute.org/arthurashe/about/
  17. ↑ "Barbershop and Tattoo Salon-based Programs". Arthur Ashe Institute. 2015. Retrieved 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  18. ↑ "Downstate Dialogues". Facebook. 2015. Retrieved 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  19. ↑ "Call to Action: A Letter to the Surgeon General". Physicians for a National Health Program. 2015. Retrieved 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  20. ↑ "Ethics Society". SUNY Downstate Medical Center. 2015. Retrieved 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  21. ↑ http://sls.downstate.edu/student_orgs/clubs/
  22. ↑ http://www.pnhpnymetro.org/people
  23. ↑ http://sls.downstate.edu/admissions/com/about_downstate.html#tabs-2
  24. ↑ https://archive.org/details/nationalcyclopae05newy
  25. ↑ http://www.heatprogram.org/
  26. ↑ https://themedicalroundtable.com/tmr-cardiovascular-editorial-board
  27. ↑ http://www.downstate.edu/anesthesiology/faculty/cottrell.html
  28. ↑ http://journals.lww.com/jnsa/pages/editorialboard.aspx
  29. ↑ http://www.mariandunn.com/about-me.php
  30. ↑ http://blog.brainfacts.org/author/jkubie/#.VHtYaIvF_cw
  31. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bayer-aids.html
  32. ↑ http://macknik.neuralcorrelate.com/
  33. ↑ http://www.scientificamerican.com/author/stephen-l-macknik/
  34. 1 2 http://www.sleightsofmind.com/
  35. ↑ http://www.downstate.edu/ophthalmology/faculty/martinez-conde.html
  36. ↑ http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com/people/
  37. ↑ http://www.downstate.edu/cellbiology/faculty/SamuelMarquez.html
  38. ↑ http://www.downstate.edu/pharmacology/faculty/sacktor.html
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