SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
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Former names
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Long Island College of Medicine |
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| Motto | To Learn, To Search, To Serve |
| Type | Public medical school |
| Established | 1860 |
| Dean | Carlos N. Pato, MD |
| Students | 807 |
| Location |
Brooklyn, New York 40°39′19″N 73°56′45″W / 40.6554°N 73.9457°WCoordinates: 40°39′19″N 73°56′45″W / 40.6554°N 73.9457°W |
| Affiliations |
State University of New York SUNY Downstate Medical Center |
| Website | http://www.downstate.edu |
The SUNY Downstate College of Medicine is one of the seven medical schools located in New York City and the sole medical school in the borough of Brooklyn, serving its 2.6 million residents.
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine's Integrated Pathways curriculum addresses several core competencies - Medical Knowledge, Systems Based Practice, Professionalism, Interpersonal & Communications, Practice Based Learning and Improvement and Patient Care. Each of these must be completed to be awarded an M.D.
The college of medicine offers several pathways to graduation including joint degree programs and special tracks including:
In clinical years students rotate at several different hospitals including:
In 2015, SUNY Downstate students matched to almost 18% of all offered EM/IM combined residency positions. 26 additional students matched to emergency medicine programs at top institution including UCLA and the University of Pittsburgh, both renowned for their emergency medicine care.
The 2013 entering class averaged an undergraduate GPA of 3.7 and MCAT of 33. In the same cycle 5396 prospective students applied for 188 spots in the first year class.
The Anne Kastor Brooklyn Free Clinic (BFC) is a student-run free clinic operated primarily by the students of the College of Medicine. The BFC offers care and health maintenance screening to the uninsured populations of Brooklyn. The clinic was renamed The Anne Kastor Brooklyn Free Clinic in memory of Anne Kastor who helped founding faculty member of the clinic and passed from ovarian cancer in 2013. So dedicated to the spirit of student run clinics, Dr. Kastor went on to become the Director of the Weil Cornell Community Clinic at Weil Cornell Medical College.
The clinic hosts an annual conference on health seen through the eyes of medicine, art, technology and community called BFC What's Next. The clinic has won multiple awards for its advertisement campaigns including a gold medal in conjunction with CDMiConnect at the 2014 MMM Awards for their "We Need U" campaign and a bronze medal at the CLIO Healthcare Awards.
The BFC operates several clinical, educational and outreach services including:
In 1992, Arthur Ashe established the Institute in partnership with SUNY Downstate intentionally, moved by the institution's long history of serving immigrants and low-income Brooklyn residents as well as staff and faculty's research.The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, located in multi-ethnic Brooklyn, collaborates with community members to design, incubate and replicate neighborhood-based interventions that address health conditions that disproportionately affect minorities.Recognizing the complexity of the economic and social determinants of health, we partner with a wide variety of grassroots and institutional organizations to provide After-school science enrichment,Outreach initiatives in trusted venues, Research and advocacy.
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