Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a medical school located at 1300 Morris Park Ave, Bronx, New York. It is part of Yeshiva University, and began classes on September 12, 1955. The first class, in 1955, had 56 students; the medical school currently admits about 180 students per year. In the fall of 2005, the school celebrated its 50th anniversary. There is also a graduate school, and a combined M.D./Ph.D. Medical Scientist Training Program. Combined with postgraduate students, enrollment (as of 2002) is more than 800. One of its most famous graduates is former Vermont governor and 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean. The school is known for its curriculum of spreading awareness of social and medical issues.
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is affiliated with five hospitals: Montefiore Medical Center, Beth Israel Medical Center, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Jacobi Medical Center, and Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center. Through its affiliation network, Einstein runs the largest post-graduate medical training program in the US, offering some 150 residency programs to more than 2,500 physicians in training. [1]
The D. Samuel Gottesman Library [2] serves the needs of the AECOM community. The library opens Sunday through Friday. It is closed in observance of the Sabbath on Saturdays.
Buildings in the main campus
- Belfer Education Center for Health Sciences: the school's educational building and the 1st year medical students' lecture hall, Riklis Auditorium.
- Forchheimer Medical Science Building: contains Robbins auditorium, Max and Sadie lounge, various biological research labs and anatomy labs, and other lecture rooms for graduate courses.
- Ullmann Research Center for Health Sciences
- Chanin Institute for Cancer Research
- Mazer Building
- Lubin Dining Hall
- Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center
- Rhinelander Hall Residence Complex
- Falk Recreation Center
- Jacobi Hospital
- Weiler Hospital
- Rose F. Kennedy Center
- Eastchester Road Residence Complex: the main housing complex of 3 twenty-eight story apartment buildings, providing housing to students and their families.
- Golding Building
See also
External links
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine Home Page - official site.
- Yeshiva University Home Page - official site.
- AECOMmunity - student-ran resource website.es:Escuela de Medicina Albert Einstein
