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The Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) is a graduate school of Yeshiva University . It is a prestigious private Medical School located in the Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus of Yeshiva University in the Morris Park neighborhood of the borough of the Bronx of New York City .

The first classes began September 12 , 1955 and had a total of 56 students. Currently, the medical school admits approximately 180 students per year. The school offers M.D. and Ph.D degrees and has a combined M.D./Ph.D. Medical Scientist Training Program. The school is known for its medical community promoting awareness, and humanism in social, ethical, and medical realms through its hospital affiliations, free ECHO health clinics, and Bronx community healthfairs.

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is affiliated with six hospitals: Jack D. Weiler Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center , Jacobi Medical Center , and Bronx-Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx, Beth Israel Medical Center in downtown Manhattan and North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center on Long Island,. Through its affiliation network, AECOM runs the largest post-graduate medical training program in the US, offering some 150 residency programs to more than 2,500 physicians in training. {Link without Title}

The D. Samuel Gottesman Library {Link without Title} serves the needs of the AECOM community. (The library opens Sunday through Friday; it is closed in observance of the Sabbath on Saturdays.)

The College of Medicine runs the largest post-graduate medical training program in the country, offering some 150-residency programs to more than 2,500 interns and residents at its affiliated hospitals. The AECOM Department of Family and Social Medicine (DFSM) offers the Residency Program in Social Medicine (RPSM, est. 1970), created to address the shortage of primary care clinicians trained to work in underserved communities.

One of AECOM's most famous graduates is former Vermont governor and 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean .


NOTABLE EVENTS

  • Enrollment 2002: Including postgraduate students, enrollment in 2002 was more than 800 students.


  • Enrollment 2004: Including 730 medical students, enrollment in 2004 was more than 810 students.


  • In 2004, Moody's upgraded Yeshiva University's bond rating from Aa3 to Aa2, facilitating construction of a biomedical research facility.


  • In the fall of 2005, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine celebrated its 50th anniversary, announced in ''The New York Times''.




ORGANIZATION


The Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean

  • Dominick P. Purpura, M.D (1984-present)

    • Allen M. Spiegel, M.D will succeed Dominick P. Purpura, M.D. as Dean effective June 1st, 2006 {Link without Title}



Buildings of Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus


  • The Arthur B. and Diane Belfer Educational Center for Health Sciences (1972) is the school's main educational building and houses the 1st year medical students' lecture hall, Riklis Auditorium, along with instructional labs and various conference rooms.

  • The Leo Forchheimer Medical Sciences Building (1953) is the school's first building. It contains the Robbins auditorium, Max and Sadie lounge, various biological research labs and anatomy labs, and other lecture rooms for graduate courses.

  • Ullmann Research Center for Health Sciences (1964).

  • The Irwin B. and Sylvia Chanin Institute for Cancer Research (1978) is devoted exclusively to basic investigations into malignant processes.

  • Mazer Building

  • The Lubin Student Center is the school's Kosher dining hall.

  • Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center

  • The Samuel H. and Rachel Golding Building (1996) is a 10-story biomedical research facility.

  • Falk Recreation Center

  • The Eastchester Road Residence Complex, comprised of three 28 story apartment buildings, provides housing to students, post-doctoral fellows, and their families.

  • The Rhinelander Hall Residence Complex houses mostly post docs and the occasional med student.

  • The Jack D. Weiler Hospital is the teaching hospital for the college

  • The Rose F. Kennedy Center for Research in Mental Retardation and Human Development lies on the adjacent campus of the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (Jacobi Medical Center).




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