New Med. School in NY

[Projectx]

Just giving some future applicants a heads up. As stated in the times, CUNY (City University of New York) will be opening a med school in 2-3 years, it is going to be part of Hunter college. Just wanted to give some info, from my experience with CUNY it should be a strong school and it will also be good because CUNY schools don't charge as much for tuition. Goodluck.

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[ahoyfatty]

Just giving some future applicants a heads up. As stated in the times, CUNY (City University of New York) will be opening a med school in 2-3 years, it is going to be part of Hunter college. Just wanted to give some info, from my experience with CUNY it should be a strong school and it will also be good because CUNY schools don't charge as much for tuition. Goodluck.

Wow... there might be a school in Manhattan that isnt crazy hard to get into...

 

[ahoyfatty]

Just giving some future applicants a heads up. As stated in the times, CUNY (City University of New York) will be opening a med school in 2-3 years, it is going to be part of Hunter college. Just wanted to give some info, from my experience with CUNY it should be a strong school and it will also be good because CUNY schools don't charge as much for tuition. Goodluck.

repeat, sorry

 

[Vvandenn]

CUNY? lol...

 

[Projectx]

Ya, CUNY, basically a system of colleges for the cities of New York. Im hoping CUNY gives more info. soon, they also usually provide alot of scholarships and if you have decent grades they are known for offering you a free ride through their schools.

 

[BellyDancingDoc]

Just giving some future applicants a heads up. As stated in the times, CUNY (City University of New York) will be opening a med school in 2-3 years, it is going to be part of Hunter college. Just wanted to give some info, from my experience with CUNY it should be a strong school and it will also be good because CUNY schools don't charge as much for tuition. Goodluck.

Hey Projectx,

I just went to the nytimes website, but I didn't see the article. Can you post the link? Or at least the title so I can do a search? I'd really like to read this.

Thanks,
Frogs

 

[SensAsian]

What day was that article in the times?

 

[mmmkay121]

is it going to located near Hunter College?

or would it be where the biomedical school already is? http://med.cuny.edu/

 

[Teee]

it says a school of public health in amnew york

 

[Projectx]

Give me 1 sec ill find the article and post it here. Also, it is not Sophie Davis, SD is a good premed program but only available for Highschool seniors planning on attending as a freshman.

 

[sam86]

hey...do you happen to have anymore information on this school? i'll be graduating in 2008, and it would be really helpful for me. thanks!

 

[Incitatus]

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[wolfram241]

sweet sweet CUNY

 

[Rafa]

Haha...

 

[MacGyver]

This is a joke.

I wonder how CUNY is selling this to the state government.

Let me guess:

"This is going to help with underserved populations" JOKE

"This school will bring lots of economic development to the area" JOKE

"This school will allow us to recruit more URMs to med school" JOKE

The spin machine is in full effect probably. I'm sure they hired some sham "consultant company" to prove how desperately Manhattan needs a new med school. They will cite some bull**** statistic about how "only" X% of NYC med school grads stay to practice in underserved urban areas.

NYC in general and Manhattan in particular has the highest number of docs per capita in the WORLD! And yet still we have fools dreaming up BS to sell the government on a new med school.

What a sham and travesty medical education has become.

 

[PRmed]

My search for new medical schools in NY brings up nothing...anyone else have better luck?😕

 

[Rafa]

^ I don't know what you typed, but if you type cuny medical into google, you get results.

 

[DropkickMurphy]

This is a joke.

What a sham and travesty medical education has become.

If it means more seats for us, I don't frankly care if they argued that it will help capture Bin Laden.

 

[Rafa]

If it means more seats for us, I don't frankly care if they argued that it will help capture Bin Laden.

Whenever I hear the news about a new m.s. being opened, I think more and more about applying as a non-trad.

 

[DropkickMurphy]

Whenever I hear the news about a new m.s. being opened, I think more and more about applying as a non-trad.

Yeah, it makes me feel better about my chances of getting in

 

[Projectx]

Im still looking for the article, but this guy seems like he found it:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=277016

It will be part of Hunter college.

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Also, to Macgyver. Do not get confused with the CUNY system, believe it or not some of the CUNY colleges were voted as being one of the highest in selectivity by the usnews.com ranking list. Don't think that it will be easier at all to enter. This is a misconception that many have, believe it or not SUNY gives more of an oppurtunity to minorities over some CUNY schools.

 

[Caristra]

Ya, CUNY, basically a system of colleges for the cities of New York. Im hoping CUNY gives more info. soon, they also usually provide alot of scholarships and if you have decent grades they are known for offering you a free ride through their schools.

And if you take some really, really anoying seminars, promise to do community service, intern, and put up with lots of red tape they will throw in a computer. 👍

Seriously though, I love CUNY and they are paying for a good bulk of my medical school applications as well as my tuition. I would love to see this school happen, if only because there is a lot of talent in CUNY that doesn't get recognized by med schools because they chose to save money on their undergrad rather than go to a big name expensive instituion. If CUNY had a med school maybe other med schools would stop asking "So you went to where for undergrad?"

 

[SweetPeaDaddy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/nyregion/27cuny.html?_r=1&oref=login

Here's the link to the NY Times article where they talk about opening a school of public health within 2-3 years at Hunter. There is no article about a new medical school being opened.

 

[LizzyM]

I read the school website and what I see is basically a 7 year BS/MD program where one does 5 years of undergrad plus the first two years of med school at CUNY and then transfers to Albany, NYMC, NYU, or one of the participating SUNY schools (Brooklyn, Stony Brook or Syracuse) for the two years of clinical training (M3 and M4). CUNY grants the BS and the school providing the clinicals grants the MD.

Students admitted to the program must be NY State residents (citizens or permanent residents) and must agree to provide primary care in an underserved area after residency.

So, this is an option for H.S. students in NY State who want a 7 year program. The rest of you can go back to your usual programming.

 

[FenderHM]

Yo when you google CUNY Medical the hits are all part of Sophie Davis, a GRADUATE program where you do the first two years of med schooll, pass the boards, and then transfer to Upstate, Downstate, Stony Brook, NYMC, or NYU for your clinical years. I found nothing about a full-fledged med school being started by CUNY...

 

[MacGyver]

Students admitted to the program must be NY State residents (citizens or permanent residents) and must agree to provide primary care in an underserved area after residency.

I guarantee you right now they have no intention and no methodology of enforcing that. Its nothign more than a "tell us in the interview you want to do underserved care and thats good enough"