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Tours

  1. SHSP Tour

    The School of Health Sciences & Practice offers online & on-campus certificates, master & doctoral degrees in public health, SLP, public health & PT.

    Stops

    1. The School of Health Sciences and Practice (SHSP) Building

      SHSP Building
      30 Plaza West
      Valhalla, NY 10595


      The School of Health Sciences and Practice (SHSP) Building houses NYMC's School of Health Sciences and Practice is the hub for students pursuing degrees in public health, physical therapy and speech-language pathology.


      Classrooms, study rooms, a student lounge and faculty and administrative offices are located there as well as the Alumni Computer Laboratory and Center for Interactive Learning, a 2,160 square foot specially designed classroom used for videoconferencing, seminars and meetings.

    2. Center of Interactive Learning

      The 2,160 sq. ft. Center for Interactive Learning is located on the first floor of the School of Health Sciences and Practice (SHSP) building. It is a specially designed classroom used for videoconferencing classes, seminars, meetings, and grand rounds.

    3. Physical Therapy Lab

      Contemporary physical therapy involves not only traditional skills in treating people with injuries or disease, but also preventing or detecting movement-related problems at the earliest stages and promoting healthy lifestyles and work environments. Adolescent obesity, early intervention for children, women’s health issues, workplace injury prevention, sports training and conditioning, preventing falls in the elderly – are all topics that extend from the clinic to the public sector.


      In our Doctor of Physical Therapy (D.P.T.) program, clinical preparation begins in the first term at our on campus P.T. labs. nymc.edu/pt

    4. Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) Clinic

      Academic courses are intended to provide each Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) student with the theoretical background knowledge and essential skills necessary to engage in supervised clinical practice as a speech-language pathologist. The first two semesters of clinical work occur in the department’s on-site Speech-Language Pathology Clinic. nymc.edu/slp

    5. 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.

    6. 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.

    7. 19 Skyline Drive Facility

      19 Skyline Drive
      Hawthorne, NY 10532


      Overlooking the Rockefeller Estates at Pocantico Hills, 19 Skyline Drive is a 248,000 square foot, class A+ building complex that sits on 12 acres off Route 9A adjacent to the main NYMC campus. The five-story mirror-façade building complex, acquired by NYMC in 2013, houses a 115-seat auditorium/conference room; a dining area and an outdoor dining plaza; a branch of NYMC’s Health Sciences Library and reading room; as well as a 720-space parking lot.

       

      Formerly part of the headquarters for IBM Research, 19 Skyline Drive was originally designed by Michael Harris Spector as part of the 75-acre Mid-Westchester Executive Park Mid-Westchester Executive Park in 1984.

    8. Skyline Auditorium

    9. The Health Sciences Library (HSL) Skyline Branch

      Besides the main Library in the BSB, The Health Sciences Library has an additional 3,033 square foot branch at the 19 Skyline Drive building complex.

       

      It consists of a main reading room, an adjacent smaller reading room with large windows, and a consultation room to schedule appointments with librarians.

    10. 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.

       

    11. Doc’s Café cafeteria and Freeman Dining Room

      Doc’s Café, a160-seat full-service cafeteria, serves a wide variety of healthy and nutritious Glatt Kosher foods and meals by Lessing's Hospitality Group. Doc’s Café serves breakfast and lunch and provides catering services for campus events. The dining facility also has a private dining area called the Freeman Dining Room.

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      Col. Melvin D. Freeman, a member of the Board of Trustees from 1993-2008, and his wife Helen Yuder Freeman held a revered place among the NYMC's most steadfast supporters. Both individually and as a couple, the two were longtime benefactors of programs in research, education and student life. Their generosity made dozens of advances and improvements possible, from student research programs, equipment purchases, renovations and capital improvements, to social and cultural events for students as well as scholarships. In 1999, at the College’s 140th Commencement, the Freemans were each awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. Family members say the two were deeply touched by the honor and spoke of it often and with pride. Beginning with the re-establishment of the Parents’ Council when their daughter Susan entered the School of Medicine in 1975, Mel and Helen Freeman were a driving force behind many programs and projects, with a special affinity for the basic sciences. They funded a protein sequencer, a motorized fluorescent microscope, the construction of several multipurpose rooms in the Health Sciences Library, a teaching laboratory, a conference room in the graduate school and a dining room annex to the main cafeteria. Until his illness, he was director of psychological services at Federation Employment and Guidance Service, a non-profit human services agency. For 31 years he proudly served in the U.S. Air Force on active duty and in the reserves. Col. Freeman succumbed to cancer on August 26, 2008, at the age of 89.

    12. The Café coffee shop and campus store

      The Café is the campus store and coffee shop that features Starbucks coffee, pastries, grab and go salads and sandwiches, snacks, convenience items, College apparel and gifts, and more.

    13. Grasslands Residence Halls

      NYMC's student housing is composed of ten garden-style apartment buildings and five suite-style buildings.

       

      Grasslands I, the garden-style apartments, contain 100 studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments for families and non-traditional students.

       

      Grasslands II, the suite-style buildings, provides housing for 310 single students in 80 shared apartments.

      Centrally located in the residence hall complex is the Student Center Building, which houses a laundry facility and the Nicholas and Liberta Testa Fitness Center. The Fitness Center contains cardiovascular equipment and the other weight-training equipment.

       

      All full-time NYMC students and other occupants of Grasslands residential buildings may use the center 24-hours a day. The door is locked at all times and students may gain access to the building using their NYMC ID card. Students who do not reside on campus may obtain access to the recreational facilities through the Security Department, 914-594-4226.

       

      In addition to the Fitness Center, many students gather for informal sports competitions in the field behind Alumni House, and the outdoor-lit basketball courts located behind the Basic Sciences Building.

    14. Alumni House

      Alumni House

       

      The Alumni House is important technologically, architecturally, and historically. The structure is an unusual example of the use of poured concrete for residential use which was constructed and occupied by prominent county residents.

       

      The site of the house has a history dating back to pre-revolutionary times. The first occupant of a dwelling on this site was believed to be Captain Thaddeus Avery. Avery, a farmer, was instrumental in hiding money needed to pay Washington’s troops. In later years, the poured concrete structure was occupied by Westchester County Commissioners of Public Welfare, V. Everit Macy and Miss Ruth Taylor among others, and became known as the “Commissioner’s House.” The Strawson family was the last to occupy the house from 1944-1960. Stanton M. Strawson was Commissioner of Public Welfare for Westchester County from 1950-1960.

       

      After that period, the “Strawson House” stood abandoned for many years. The building had been scheduled for demolition by the Westchester County Department of Public Works and in the interim, was used by the Fire Safety Training Unit for practice in putting out fires. After hearing of the demolition plans in 1979, the School of Medicine Alumni Association initiated a campaign to restore the building. By 1981, the Association had raised $75,000. On January 29, 1982, The House was leased to New York Medical College by Westchester County. On December 15, 1982, the Alumni Association presented a check for $230,000 to College President John J. Connolly. The campaign had met its goal and the effort to raise funds continued towards the restoration effort. Renovation began in June 1983. The building was restored as faithfully as possible in consultation with the County Planning Department. The front and back porticos were added and an open porch was enclosed for the boardroom in the 1980s. With the restoration completed, the dedication of the House took place on June 2, 1984.

       

      The Alumni House is now an elegant venue for meetings and events, and is now home to the administrative offices of NYMC Alumni Relations, as well as the Joseph Dersi, M.D. '59 Conference Room, and offers an elegant venue for meetings, receptions and alumni events.