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  1. SOM Tour

    NYMC School of Medicine is one of the oldest and largest medical schools in the US with more than 800 students and a faculty of 2,800.

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      The School of Medicine at New York Medical College (NYMC) is one of the oldest and largest medical schools in the United States, dating back to its founding in 1860. Established by a group of civic leaders focused on training doctors to provide compassionate – as well as competent – medical care, the School of Medicine has grown in size and reputation. Today we enroll more than 800 students, employ a faculty of 2,800 and offer four degrees: M.D., M.D./M.P.H. and M.D./Ph.D.

    2. The Blanche and Albert Willner, M.D. '43 Atrium Lobby

      Historical faculty portraits adorn the walls of the Medical Education Center (MEC) Blanche and Albert Willner, M.D. '43 Atrium Lobby. These portraits depict some of the key figures who played leading roles in the formative years of the College (then known as the New York Homeopathic Medical College). Reflecting the College’s second home at New York Ophthalmic Hospital (1872-1889), several of these portraits depict members of the ophthalmology faculty. All of these figures were highly regarded in their day and most were well published with many of their important texts still published in re-print form today.

       

      The procurement, restoration and display of these portraits is the culmination of 35 years of work. Most of the College’s large portrait collection had been left at Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital (now Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center) when NYMC moved to Valhalla in the 1970s. The majority of these portraits were discovered and returned to the College through the efforts of Jay Tartell, M.D. ’82, when he was a medical student. A second smaller group of portraits and historic artifacts remaining at Cardinal Cooke were recovered by Dr. Tartell and Edward C. Halperin, M.D., chancellor and chief executive officer in 2013. Recently, several important portraits and their frames were professionally restored with funds from the NYMC Alumni Association and Dr. Tartell.

       

      The College’s 19th century faculty portraits are closely grouped on walls of the MEC lobby in a period-appropriate “salon style.” This style of displaying artworks came into vogue in the 19th century as a way of conveying the size and importance of many large private and public art collections of the times. Large museums, including the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as private art salons in the mansions of wealthy collectors such as the Vanderbilt family, densely displayed paintings to the ceiling in keeping with the opulence which was a hallmark of the Gilded Age.

       

      Read more about these faculty portraits on the Health Sciences Library website.


      Timothy Field Allen, A.M., M.D., LL.D., 1837-1902
      Frank Hopkins Boynton, M.D., 1850-1913
      Walter Gray Crump, M.D., 1869-1945
      William Tod Helmuth, M.D., LL.D, 1833-1902
      George S. Norton, M.D., 1851-1891
      George Watson Roberts, Ph.B., M.D., 1866-1931

       

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      About Albert Willner, M.D. ’43

       

      Albert Willner, M.D. ’43 (1918–2011), was an alumnus and former College trustee. From the day he became a physician, Dr. Willner ardently believed he owed a debt of gratitude to New York Medical College for giving him the education he needed to succeed. Throughout his entire career he worked tirelessly to repay that debt—even donating the first paycheck he earned as a physician to the College. He was active in the Alumni Association for more than four decades, joined the Board of Trustees in 1996, and was a member of the President’s National Advisory Council.

       

      Dr. Willner and his wife Blanche were generous supporters of the medical student scholarship program, often responding to needs they learned about on their visits to campus by underwriting various campus facilities and structures. In the late 1990s Dr. Willner and his family donated funds to build a playground in student housing, and later funded the renovation and construction of the atrium lobby of the Medical Education Center (MEC) which is named after the couple in honor of their longtime patronage and dedication.

       

      In 2006, the College awarded Dr. Willner the William Cullen Bryant medal, in recognition for his distinguished and wide-ranging leadership. He once said, “I hope that those students who are part of the College today will not take the value of [their education] for granted, and will help in their own way when they become leaders in medicine.”

       

      One of three children born to parents who left Poland and came to the U.S. in the 1890s, Albert Willner was one of several “Dr. Willners” in his family: his uncle Irving (who graduated from New York Medical College in 1913), his brothers Philip and Milton, and Albert himself, who met his wife, Blanche, on a commuter train while attending New York University as an undergraduate. Their two children became doctors, and so did several grandchildren, a nephew and a grandnephew—all told, about one out of three were New York Medical College graduates.

       

      Albert Willner, M.D. ’43 died on November 16, 2011, at the age of 93. He was predeceased by his wife Blanche, and is survived by his son, Dr. Joseph Willner, daughter Dr. Jane Bloomgarden, and numerous nieces, nephews and grandchildren, including Noah Bloomgarden, M.D. ’10.

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    3. The John W. Nevins, M.D. ’44 Auditorium

      The John W. Nevins, M.D. ’44 Auditorium is fully enabled to host and receive all types of conferencing including video, audio and web-based. It offers full a/v support as well as wired and wireless internet access including dual 35 mm. slide projectors and high-resolution video projector, integrated instructor’s console with PC, document camera, slide-video converter and laptop connection. Integrated touch screen control of all a/v components is available from both podium and control room.

    4. The Alumni Gross Anatomy Laboratory

      The Alumni Gross Anatomy Laboratory occupies the entire top floor of the MEC with an innovative light-filled design. The 8,500 square foot facility features 36 dissecting tables with wired and secured wireless networking available at each table, a specialized ventilation system, natural northern light exposure and separate student and faculty changing areas with showers and lockers.

    5. Terence Cardinal Cooke Auditorium

      The Terence Cardinal Cooke Auditorium offers full audio/visual support as well as wired and wireless internet access. It features a podium with laptop connection and the ability to receive web conferences, and to host and receive videoconferences via a portable videoconferencing unit.

    6. The Thomas and Alice Marie Hales Lobby (BSB Lobby)

      The Thomas and Alice Marie Hales Lobby, colloquially known as the BSB Lobby, is located within the Basic Sciences Building (BSB). Arguably the most central and frequently traversed place on the college campus, is a welcoming oasis, nestled in the busy landscape of research labs, teaching facilities, Health Sciences Library, bookstore and Doc’s café.

       

      The 2009 renovation and redesign of this campus hub of activity was made possible in part by a donation from trustee Thomas E. Hales and his wife Alice Marie Hales. A modern look, with a nod to school spirit through its use of the school colors, maroon and ochre, embodies the décor. 

       

      Designated seating areas are arranged to serve different purposes, where groups of students might gather for study or socialization, while others are designed for more intimate conversations or relaxation between classes. But the design feature that makes the lobby and its environs unique to New York Medical College is the original artwork. Six panels of graphic art in a motif of trees and leaves line the walls and adjacent hallway. Through a series of historical photos, the panels mark important milestones along the fascinating journey the College has taken throughout its history. Street scenes, buildings, laboratories and classrooms from the late 1800s onward are all part of the story. So are key figures in the school’s history, like Clemence Sophia Lozier, M.D., William Cullen Bryant and Cardinal Terence Cooke. Quotations from noted thinkers such as John F. Kennedy, Marcus Aurelius , Oliver Wendell Holmes and William Butler Yeats bring the school’s evolution full circle, impressing upon the readers the impact that medicine, science and an abiding concern for humanity have had upon the College and the world at large. People can walk through the lobby and gain an understanding of how the College is rooted in a long span of history, one that will go on long after they have graduated.

       

    7. Health Sciences Library (HSL)

      The Health Sciences Library (HSL) is located at the junction between the Basic Sciences Building and the Medical Education Center. The Library consists of approximately 19,000 square feet, with an additional 3,000 square feet at a branch location at 19 Skyline Drive. The HSL features two computer rooms, two small group study rooms, a 20-person classroom, conference room and ample study carrels.

    8. Anatomage and Radiology Suite

      The Anatomage and Radiology Suite features multiple interactive screens allowing for independent and group study, as well as the cutting-edge Anatomage Table, which displays human gross anatomy in real-life size using data from actual patient scans or cadavers and will serve as a complementary tool for cadaver-based dissection courses. The table’s visualization screen spans 81 inches long and 22 inches wide and students can use it collaboratively to explore bone fractures, aneurysms, carcinoma and dozens of other unique case examples. 

    9. The Drs. Esther and Ben Chouake Auditorium

      The Drs. Esther and Ben Chouake Auditorium offers full audio/visual support as well as wired and wireless internet access. It features a podium with laptop connection and the ability to receive web conferences, and to host and receive videoconferences via a portable videoconferencing unit.

    10. BSB Student Lounge/Recreation Room

      The Student Lounge is located within the Basic Sciences Building, and has a pool table, a ping-pong table and a big-screen TV.

    11. Plane Tree of Hippocrates

      A gift from the Greek Dodecanese island of Cos, historic birthplace of Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, the seed of the NYMC Plane Tree (platanus orientalis) comes from the Tree of Hippocrates under which Hippocrates is said to have conducted his medical classes some 25 centuries ago.

      In 1960, seeds of Tree of Hippocrates were given to each medical school in the U.S.; one of them being New York Medical College during the NYMC centennial celebration in 1960. It was planted outside of the main building in Manhattan at 106th Street and 5th Avenue. When the College moved to Westchester, the tree came also and to this day stands just south of the Basic Sciences Building.

    12. The Clinical Skills and Simulation Center

      The Clinical Skills and Simulation Center contains 17,500 square feet of learning space dedicated for learners to practice a broad range of skills from faculty guided peer training in physical examination, skill training utilizing standardized patients, team training exercises using simulated mannequins, and a large multi-functional classroom space to instruct students in specific clinical or procedural skills including CPR, suturing, airway management and line placement. This space is solely dedicated for clinical skills training and is not used for patient care. For students to gain experience as realistic and instructive as possible, the 20 exam rooms and two large simulation rooms are equipped with patented Learning Space technologies of Medical Education Technology, Inc. (M.E.T.I.). Ceiling-mounted and wall-mounted pan-tilt-zoom cameras, multi-directional microphones, two-way speakers, telephones and a computer allow for the data capture that yields immediate, detailed and useful feedback for students. The physical exam rooms are also equipped with wall-mounted instruments including blood pressure cuffs, otoscopes, ophthalmoscopes and an exam table, to replicate an exam room and orient students to a clinical-care environment. Outside each exam room is a writing station where learners can complete post-encounter exercises such as preparing patient notes, gaining valuable experience in the computer interface for electronic medical records (EMRs).


      Within the state-of-the-art simulation rooms are three Laerdal SimMan 3G high-fidelity patient simulators that are wireless, self-contained mannequins controlled remotely by faculty. This gives learners a chance to manage all facets of patient care scenarios, pharmacological interventions and responses and airway management. A Laerdal SimJunior teaches a broad range of pediatric skills in multiple patient care settings, both within and outside the hospital environment. Simulation training with both adult and pediatric mannequins includes various basic and advanced life support course modules. In addition, simulation rooms and nearby classrooms can be arranged to mimic different field and hospital environments to provide unique training in disaster management.