NYMC Fact Sheet

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NYMC LEADING THE WAY

IN HEALTH SCIENCES, MEDICINE, AND RESEARCH

Founded 1860

19

2,017 STUDENTS COUNTRIES REPRESENTED

Academic Programs

479

52%

DIVERSITY NYMC/TCDM students who self-reported as a member of an underrepresented group

29

Residents and Fellows Residency Programs

200,000+ square feet DEDICATED RESEARCH SPACE

1,982 FACULTY $6.9M IN STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS DISTRIBUTED annually

20% STUDENTS AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS annually

5

SCHOOLS on NYMC Campus

School of Medicine

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

School of Health Sciences and Practice

Touro College of Dental Medicine

Touro College School of Health Sciences’ Nursing Program

25,000 and 100+ JOURNAL TITLES a and DATABASES in the Phillip Capozzi, M.D., Library

148 STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

54 ACRES CAMPUS SIZE

1,047 EMPLOYEES

26,071 LIVING ALUMNI actively engaged in medical and dental practice, health care administration, public health, teaching and research throughout the nation and abroad

NYMC POINTS OF PRIDE

Founded in 2023, the Women’s Institute for Science Entrepreneurship (WISE) is a program designed to support women innovators in cultivating new scientific concepts and launching new businesses that will make a significant difference in their communities and in the world; as well as encourage them to pursue STEM education and research. WISE draws upon faculty and students at NYMC and TU, and BioInc@NYMC. WISE connects interdisciplinary teams of students, researchers, faculty, and biotech entrepreneurs on and off campus to work collaboratively creating synergy to lead to pioneering and exceptional projects.

NYMC operates the Family Health Center, an outpatient faculty practice clinic providing comprehensive, medical and preventive care, as well as urgent care for patients of all ages including students, employees, as well as the general public. The Center also offers telehealth visits.

The Center for Disaster Medicine provides expertise and leadership in preventing, diagnosing, and treating public health threats specific to biological and chemical terrorism, public health emergencies, and developing medical countermeasures.

NYMC houses a state-of-the-art 21,000-square-foot Clinical Skills and Simulation Center, where students receive hands-on training in a replicated clinical setting with standardized patients and mannequins to hone clinical skills in a safe and controlled environment.

The laboratory of Doris J. Bucher, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology, produces high-growth reassortant seed viruses for the influenza vaccine ultimately used to produce 400 to 500 million doses of flu vaccine annually.

The Genomics Core Laboratory in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, was selected to assist New York State in the identification of COVID-19 variants. Data was used to help build an understanding of disease manifestations, therapy or vaccine evasion and efficacy, and supports other discoveries to inform public health intervention.

Recent laboratory renovations in the Basic Sciences Building include 17,000 square feet of multi-disciplinary research space, 3,000 square feet of shared core instrumentation space, and the installation of flexible casework systems and best-in-class equipment to foster innovation and collaboration.

The SOM launched a completely redesigned M.D. curriculum in 2022 that integrates basic science and clinical course content during the first 18 months of medical education, while also allowing students to enter clerkships much earlier in their education.

The SOM Areas of Concentration provide elective opportunities for medical students to differentiate themselves and pursue an area of personal interest in depth, including biomedical research, drug development, health equity leadership, culinary medicine, health policy, medical education, biomedical ethics, global and population health, as well as children’s environmental health.

BioInc@NYMC is the only fully equipped biotechnology incubator on a health sciences college campus, doubled in size offering additional square footage of shared and collaborative space to support biotech/medtech start-ups advancing health innovation in the Hudson Valley.

TCDM opened in 2016 making it the first new dental school in New York State in nearly half a century. In 2018, TCDM opened a state-of-the-art 32,000-square-foot oral health care facility, Touro Dental Health, co-located with NYMC’s Family Health Center offering interprofessional education for students and multi-specialty patient care. Touro Dental Kids is a family-friendly pediatric practice designed to treat children in a quiet and distraction-free environmen.

The SHSP created the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences in April 2023, joining together the Divisions of Physical Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology. Led by department chair Sambit Mohapatra, Ph.D., PT, the new department expands students’ interdisciplinary opportunities to learn evidence-based modalities.

Health commissioners and health directors of nine surrounding counties and municipalities in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut tri-state area are on faculty at NYMC.