NYU Grossman School of Medicine is a
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of
New York University
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In 1832, the ...
, a
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in
New York City
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. It was founded in 1841 and is one of two medical schools of the university, with the other being the Long Island School of Medicine.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine is part of
NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone Health is an academic medical center located in New York City, New York, United States. The health system consists of NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Long Island School of Medicine, both part of New York University (NYU), and m ...
, named after
Kenneth Langone
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, the investment banker and financial backer of
The Home Depot
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.
In 2022, U.S''. News & World Report'' ranked NYU Grossman School of Medicine as No. 2 “Best Graduate Schools".
History
New York University College of Medicine was established in 1841. The medical school merged with Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1898 to form the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. The name NYU Grossman School of Medicine was adopted in 2019.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine is home to many key advancements in medical education. In 1854, human dissection in New York was legalized due to efforts of the faculty. In 1866, NYU professors produced a report for the Council of Hygiene and Public Health which led to establishment of New York City's Health Department. The same year, NYU opened the first outpatient clinic in the United States. In 1872, NYU Professor Steven Smith founded the American Public Health Association. In 1884, the Carnegie Laboratory, the first facility in the U.S. devoted to teaching and research in bacteriology and pathology, was established at NYU. In 1899, NYU graduate
Walter Reed
Walter Reed (September 13, 1851 – November 22, 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species rather than b ...
discovered the mosquito transmission of
yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration. In most cases, symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains – particularly in the back – and headaches. Symptoms typically improve within five days. In ...
. In 1932, the first department of forensic medicine in the U.S. was established at NYU. During
World War II
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, NYU College of Medicine was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the
V-12 Navy College Training Program
The V-12 Navy College Training Program was designed to supplement the force of commissioned officers in the United States Navy during World War II. Between July 1, 1943, and June 30, 1946, more than 125,000 participants were enrolled in 131 colleg ...
which offered students a path to a Navy commission.
In 1941, NYU opened the first department of physical medicine and rehabilitation in the U.S. In 1948, the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is established by Howard A. Rusk. In 1955, Jonas Salk, MD, developed the first vaccine against polio, and in 1957, Albert B. Sabin developed a live-virus vaccine against polio, which, when administered orally, effectively eliminated polio in the U.S. The Institute and Department of Environmental Medicine were established in 1964. In 1980, NYU professor
Saul Krugman, M.D., developed the first vaccine against hepatitis B.
In 1989, Jan T. Vilcek and Junming Le create a monoclonal antibody against TNF alpha, leading to the development of the anti-inflammatory drug Remicade. In 1993 the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine opens. In 1998, the Mount Sinai-NYU Health System was established when the NYU Medical System merged with Mount Sinai Hospitals. The joint organization included
Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens,
Tisch Hospital
NYU Langone Health is an academic medical center located in New York City, New York, United States. The health system consists of NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Long Island School of Medicine, both part of New York University (NYU), and ...
,
Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine
Rusk Rehabilitation is the world's first and among the largest university-affiliated academic centers devoted entirely to inpatient/outpatient care, research, and training in rehabilitation medicine for both adults and pediatric patients. The sys ...
, Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute,
NYU Downtown Hospital
NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital is a nonprofit, acute care, teaching hospital in New York City and is the only hospital in Lower Manhattan south of Greenwich Village. It is part of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System and on ...
and
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City. It is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, which manages eigh ...
. The merger made NYU the only private university in the country with two medical schools.
The union dissolved in 2003 while confronting a shared debt of $665.6 million, but NYU continued to award Mount Sinai's degrees. In 2010, however, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine was accredited by the
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
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and became an independent degree-granting institution without a university affiliation for the first time in its history.
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Retrieved January 11, 2011
In 2018, NYU Grossman School of Medicine began offering full-tuition scholarships to all current and future students in its MD degree program regardless of need or merit.
In 2019 NYU Langone Health partnered with NYU to form NYU Long Island School of Medicine, a new, three-year medical school located at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island.
Evolution of NYU Grossman School of Medicine
*1841 - University Medical College organized as the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York
*1861 - Bellevue Hospital Medical College Founded
*1882 - New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital founded (incorporated in 1886)
*1896 - Name of the University of the City of New York changed to New York University
*1898 - University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College formed by merging of the University Medical College and Bellevue Hospital Medical College
*1935 - Name changed to New York University College of Medicine
*1945 - Post-graduate Division of New York University College of Medicine established
*1948 - New York University Post-Graduate Medical school formed, representing a union of the Postgraduate Division of the College of Medicine and the New York Post-Graduate Medical School
*1960 - Name of New York University-Bellevue Medical Center changed to NYU Medical Center - Name of New York University College of Medicine changed to NYU School of Medicine
*2008 - NYU Medical Center Hospitals and School of Medicine renamed NYU Langone Medical Center
*2018 - NYU Grossman School of Medicine announced it would be offering full-tuition scholarships to all current and future students in its MD degree program
*2019 - NYU School of Medicine renamed NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Timeline of notable events and discoveries
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*1841: The New York University College of Medicine opens, ten years after the founding of the university. Among the original faculty is John Revere, son of patriot Paul Revere, and
Valentine Mott
Valentine Mott (August 20, 1785April 26, 1865) was an American surgeon.
Life
Valentine Mott was born at Glen Cove, New York. He graduated at Columbia College, studied under Sir Astley Cooper in London, and also spent a winter in Edinburgh. A ...
, probably the foremost surgeon of his day.
*1854: Human dissection in New York is legalized due to efforts of faculty at the NYU College of Medicine. Also, the first successful resection of a hip joint is performed by Lewis A. Sayre, M.D., the first professor of orthopedic surgery in the United States.
*1866: NYU professors of medicine produce a Report for the Council of Hygiene and Public Health. It leads to the establishment of New York City's Health Department.
*1867: Established the first clinical professorship devoted to dermatology. Also, the first outpatient clinic in the United States opens at Bellevue Hospital.
*1884: The Carnegie Laboratory, the first facility in the United States devoted to teaching and research in bacteriology and pathology, is established at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
*1897: Merged with the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital.
*1899: Dr.
Walter Reed
Walter Reed (September 13, 1851 – November 22, 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species rather than b ...
discovers the mosquito transmission of
yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration. In most cases, symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains – particularly in the back – and headaches. Symptoms typically improve within five days. In ...
at Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
*1911: The first outpatient cardiac clinic in New York is established by Hubert V. Guile, M.D. at Bellevue Hospital.
*1932: The first department of forensic medicine in the United States is established at NYU. Also, NYU organizes one of the nation's first interdisciplinary research efforts, the Rheumatic Diseases Study Group, helping to usher in the era of modern rheumatology.
*1933: William S. Tillett, M.D. conducts groundbreaking studies of enzymes involved in blood clotting. His work leads to the development of streptokinase, used to combat heart attacks.
*1941: The first department of physical medicine and rehabilitation in the United States is established at NYU.
*1941-45: During the war years, NYU-trained
Julius Axelrod
Julius Axelrod (May 30, 1912 – December 29, 2004) was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler. The Nobel Committee honored him for his work on the re ...
, M.D., works with James Shannon, M.D., and other faculty members in the Medical Schools malaria program. Dr. Axelrod is later awarded the
Nobel Prize for Medicine
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.
*1947: A site for a new Medical Center, consisting of the NYU School of Medicine, the Post-Graduate Medical School, University (now Tisch) Hospital, and the
Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine
Rusk Rehabilitation is the world's first and among the largest university-affiliated academic centers devoted entirely to inpatient/outpatient care, research, and training in rehabilitation medicine for both adults and pediatric patients. The sys ...
, is selected. The Institute of Industrial Medicine is established.
*1948: University Hospital is created through a merger of the New York Post-Graduate Hospital and New York Skin and Cancer Hospital.
*1955: The Medical Science Building and the Henry W. and
Albert Berg
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Institute opens at NYU.
*1957: The Hall of Research and Alumni Hall are constructed.
*1959: The Nobel Prize for Medicine is awarded to NYU faculty member
Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (; 24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in th ...
, M.D., for his seminal study of biochemical genetics and nucleic acids.
*1960: The Clinical Research Center, funded by the NIH, is established at NYU.
*1960s: NYU pathologist
Baruj Benacerraf, M.D., conducts pioneering research on genetic regulation of the immune system, for which he is later awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1980.
*1963: The new University Hospital opens.
*1964: NYU establishes one of the first three
Medical Scientist Training Program
The Medical Scientist Training Programs (MSTPs) are dual-degree training programs that streamline the education towards both clinical (typically MD) and research doctoral degrees. MSTPs are offered by some United States medical schools, who are aw ...
s (dual MD/PhD graduate programs funded by the NIH) in the United States.
*1964: The Institute and Department of Environmental Medicine are established.
*1975: One of the first designated national cancer centers is established at NYU, later named the Rita and Stanley H. Kaplan Center.
*1981: NYU scientists present the first evidence linking rare cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma, with immune deficiency in a distinct population of homosexual men, a key step in identifying AIDS.
*1992: NYU Medical Center opens Women's Health Services under the auspices of the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Radiology.
*1993: The School of Medicine's Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine is opened as an uncompromising commitment to the advancement and understanding of molecular approaches for the treatment of various important diseases.
*1995: The Sir Harold Acton Society is established to recognize donors of $1 million or more.
*1998: NYU Medical Center is restructured, creating the "NYU Hospitals Center" (including Tisch Hospital and Rusk Institute), the "NYU Health System" (consisting of NYU Hospitals Center, Hospital for Joint Diseases and NYU Downtown Hospital), and the "NYU School of Medicine" which remains an administrative unit of New York University.
*2004: The NYU Clinical Cancer Center is opened (now called NYU Langone Health Perlmutter Cancer Center), an NCI-Designated comprehensive cancer center..
*2004: The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded to the distinguished NYU adjunct faculty member
Avram Hershko
Avram Hershko ( he, אברהם הרשקו, Avraham Hershko, hu, Herskó Ferenc Ábrahám; born December 31, 1937) is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004.
Biography
He was born Herskó Ferenc in Karc ...
, M.D., for his seminal discovery of the ubiquitin system in protein degradation.
*2006: Hospital for Joint Diseases merges with NYU Medical Center and is renamed the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases.
*2006: The School of Medicine's Joan and
Joel Smilow
Joel E. Smilow is an American philanthropist and former CEO of Playtex.
Early life
Joel Smilow was born in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Yale University in 1954. As a student, he was sports director at the campus radio station, WYBC. ...
Research Center is opened to house 4 major programmatic areas: Cancer, Pathology, Dermatology/Cutaneous Biology, and Cardiovascular Biology.
*2013: NYU School of Medicine introduces accelerated three-year MD program.
*2014: NYU Grossman School of Medicine expands into The Alexandria Center of Life Science to host the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology and the Department of Microbiology, as well as the facilities of Proteomics and Metabolomics.
*2018: NYU Grossman School of Medicine announced it would be offering full-tuition scholarships to all current and future students in its MD degree program.
*2019: NYU Langone Health partnered with
NYU
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
to form NYU Long Island School of Medicine, a new, three-year medical school located at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island.
*2019: NYU Grossman School of Medicine's Science Building is opened, encompassing more than 365,000 square feet and 10 floors of laboratory space dedicated to research in the area of Human Genetics, System Biology, Neurobiology, and Medicine.
Institutional pedigrees
Academics
In 2010, NYU Grossman School of Medicine implemented a curriculum consisting of 18 months of basic science and two and a half years of clinical training. Students take the
USMLE Step 1
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exam after the clerkship year (with the exception of MD/PhD students, who take it before starting their PhD work). The curriculum also includes NYU3T (a joint program with the
New York University College of Nursing
The New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing (commonly referred to as Rory Meyers) offers undergraduate and graduate programs in nursing and clinical experience.
History
Early courses in 1923 ranged from Education in Health and Educati ...
) and PLACE (Patient-Based Longitudinal Ambulatory Care Experience).
NYU Grossman School of Medicine also offers 5-year joint degree programs, some of which can be optionally completed in 4 years:
Program Information
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* MD/MPA in Health Policy and Management (with the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
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History
In 1938, NYU of ...
)
* MD/MPH in Global Health
*MD/MS in Biomedical Informatics
*MD/MS in Translational Research
* MD/MBA in General Management (with the New York University Stern School of Business
The New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business (commonly referred to as NYU Stern, The Stern School of Business, or simply Stern) is the business school of New York University, a private research university based in New York City. I ...
)
* MD/MA in Bioethics
For scientists and physician–scientists, the School of Medicine offers PhD, MD/PhD, and postdoctoral programs at Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
The Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at the NYU School of Medicine is a division of the Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University, leading to the Ph.D. degree and, in coordination with the Medical Scientist Trainin ...
at NYU Langone Health.
In 2010, NYU Grossman School of Medicine introduced a 3-year MD program based on the program first pioneered in Canada at McMaster University Medical School
The Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, known as the McMaster University School of Medicine prior to 2004, is the medical school of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is operated by the McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences. It ...
in 1965. The 3-year program can only be applied to by students accepted into the 4 year stream. 3-year program students are guaranteed a residency placement in their specialty of choice at NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone Health is an academic medical center located in New York City, New York, United States. The health system consists of NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Long Island School of Medicine, both part of New York University (NYU), and m ...
. They complete their preclinical training at the same time as 4 year students, however they start clinical rotations 6 weeks earlier and also spend the summer after their first year doing a summer fellowship in the department of their specialty of choice.
Notable people
Notes
External links
NYU Medical Center / School of Medicine
NYU School of Medicine / Library and Archives - Main Page
NYU School of Medicine / Library and Archives - Alumni and Photograph Databases
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