Broadening the clerkship opportunities available to third- and fourth-year medical students, New York Medical College (NYMC) and Rome Memorial Hospital (RMC) have entered into a new academic affiliation aimed at expanding medical education, meeting the medical health care needs of the community and further developing clinical and education research. With this new academic affiliation, RMC becomes designated as a teaching hospital for NYMC students, while NYMC medical students gain opportunities to expand their knowledge in a community hospital environment. Read the full article on the new academic affiliation.

Researchers at New York Medical College (NYMC) and throughout the Touro College and University System (TCUS) are the recipients of bridge and seed grants supporting their research for the 2018-2019 year. The bridge grants sustain research projects between larger grant funding, while seed grants enable researchers to gather initial data. The awardees were selected as part of a rigorous peer review process, as well as recommendations by the TCUS Biomedical and Health Sciences Research Council. Read the full article on the Bridge and Seed Funding grants.

It looked like all fun and games when Toddlerpalooza took over the School of Health Sciences and Practice on July 2. In reality, it was an interprofessional education laboratory experience for second-year speech-language pathology (SLP) students and third-year physical therapy (PT) students, who were tasked with evaluating a group of infants, toddlers and school-aged children who came to visit for the day. They collaborated to evaluate the gross motor, speech and language/cognitive abilities and developmental stages of the children and recommend appropriate activities and exercises for speech-language and gross motor goals for parents and caregivers to perform at home. View the photo gallery and read the Toddlerpalooza article.

Based on the understanding that international service trips provide invaluable academic and hands-on opportunities, students and faculty under the direction of Gale Lavinder, P.T. Ed.D, G.C.S., assistant professor of physical therapy and director of clinical education, began making an annual trip to Haiti in 2014. This past March-following in the footsteps of NYMC students who came before them- seven members of the D.P.T. Class of 2019 were thrilled to embark on a service learning trip to Haiti to aid the underserved population, gaining hands-on experience while bettering the community. Read the full article on the D.P.T. trip to Haiti.

A group of 60 students from the Sejong Academy of Science and Arts of South Korea got a glimpse of life at New York Medical College when they toured campus on July 13. The high school students, considered to be elite in the math and science field, were on a ten-day tour of the United States that included visits to Princeton University, Yale University, MIT, Harvard University, and Cornell University. The tour, led by Padraic Reynolds, M.P.H. '14, associate dean for academic administration, School of Medicine, included information about NYMC history and stops in the Medical Education Center, the Health Sciences Library, the Radiology Suite, laboratories in the Basic Sciences Building, and a look at the Touro College of Dental Medicine simulation center. The day was capped off with a Q & A session with Dana G. Mordue, Ph.D., interim dean of the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences and associate professor of microbiology and immunology.