- Mailing Address
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550 1st Avenue
New York, New York 10016 - Phone
- (212) 263-5290
- Email address
- admissions@nyulangone.org
- Website
- https://med.nyu.edu/
- School Information
- "Our 29 academic departments include nationally and internationally recognized faculty in clinical and basic sciences. We strive to bring together the best and brightest to cultivate collaboration across disciplines, and to facilitate breakthroughs that address today’s biggest challenges in medicine. We have a long history of excellence, beginning in 1841 when six eminent physician–scientists opened the medical college that would become NYU School of Medicine. In November 2019, the school was renamed NYU Grossman School of Medicine to honor current dean and CEO Robert I. Grossman, MD...We are proud to offer every student enrolled in our MD degree program full-tuition scholarships as part of our tuition-free initiative. We believe providing tuition-free education will lead to better patient care and will benefit society as a whole by turning the best and brightest future physicians into leaders with the potential to transform healthcare." The school has more than 1,300 residents and fellows across 156 medical residency and fellowship training programs. It also has more than 300 graduate students and more than 400 postdoctoral fellows. The school has a 2.4:1 student-faculty ratio. (Source: https://med.nyu.edu/our-community/about-us) (Source: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/new-york-university-04073#:~:text=The%20faculty%2Dstudent%20ratio%20at,full%2Dtime%20faculty%20on%20staff.)
- General Information
- NYU Grossman School of Medicine's Office of Diversity Affairs announced that it has "partnered with the Office of Medical Education to convene a Social Determinants of Health Task Force to include content across the undergraduate medical education (UME) curriculum on systemic racism and its impact on health outcomes. We are also partnering with graduate medical education (GME) programs and faculty to develop health equity curriculum for both UME and GME, as well as continuing education opportunities for faculty.” The university's Health Sciences library offers a “Race and racism in medicine” resource guide, which includes Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist” and an article from the New York Times’ 1619 Project. See developments below:
Actions Taken
- Admissions Policies
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On June 30, 2023, the school signed on to the Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) statement in response to the Supreme Court's decision regarding race-conscious admission policies, which stated the following: "The consortium of the 17 medical schools of New York State, is profoundly concerned that the United State Supreme Court decisions in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina will diminish opportunities for talented students pursuing careers in medicine and science. These decisions reject a longstanding precedent that recognized the compelling interest of ensuring diversity in higher education and may undermine recent advances to address inequities in medical education and research."
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As part of its "Student Diversity Recruitment" efforts, the school states, "Students from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine are strongly encouraged to seek support from the Office of Diversity Affairs."
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The School states it is "committed to increasing and supporting the diversity of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows." Several departments have diversity programs including the the PhD program at Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, which "actively recruits and improves retention of underrepresented minorities by nurturing diversity" and partners with the MD/PhD program.
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- Anti-Racism, Bias, and Diversity Training
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The school’s Office of Diversity Affairs said, “In addition, our office has developed and made available to the entire NYU community a virtual training in implicit bias.”
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NYU Grossman states that it offers "programs designed to educate medical students and other members of our community on diversity issues in order to help them develop cultural competency."
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The Office of Diversity Affairs offers "a variety of training and workshops for students, faculty, and education/program staff at NYU Grossman School of Medicine." Available trainings include "implicit bias," "inclusive communication," "inclusive leadership," "addressing microaggressions in healthcare settings," and "race and racism in medicine" among others.
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- Curriculum Changes and Requirements
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The school’s Office of Diversity Affairs said, “The Office of Diversity Affairs partnered with the Office of Medical Education to convene a Social Determinants of Health Task Force to include content across the undergraduate medical education (UME) curriculum on systemic racism and its impact on health outcomes. We are also partnering with graduate medical education (GME) programs and faculty to develop health equity curriculum for both UME and GME, as well as continuing education opportunities for faculty.”
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Each of the school's "curricular pillars" includes a "diversity component, involving lectures and team-based learning activities designed to teach students about disparities that affect health outcomes."
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Medical students "learn about health inequities that affect patient care and health outcomes through the health disparities selective" Through the four-week program, students learn through "readings, seminars, specialty clinics, and reflections... about factors that can create health disparities, including race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, income, and education." The program contributes to the required MD degree scholarly concentration.
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- Program and Research Funding
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The school’s Office of Diversity Affairs said, “We are partnering with the Departments of Population Health and Medicine, among others, to advance ground-breaking science that elucidate the causes and help inform strategies to address racial disparities in health.”
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NYU Langone launched the Institute for Excellence in Health Equity, which “will advance the mission of health equity across our entire healthcare system and strive to build a culture of inclusive excellence by facilitating and enabling recruitment, training, and mentorship of medical students, physicians, and scientists.”
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NYU Langone’s Section for Health Equity aims to “to promote health equity for racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations. We do this by conducting research on the effectiveness of various strategies to reduce health disparities, such as community health worker programs.”
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The school received a $20 million award from the American Heart Association to spearhead "a new initiative known as the RESTORE Health Equity Research Network."
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The "Emergency Medicine Fellowship for Students Underrepresented in Medicine" is sponsored by the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine at NYU Langone and takes place in the summer of 2023. The fellowship's description states, "We are committed to increasing diversity within the field of emergency medicine...the Association of American Medical Colleges defines underrepresented in medicine as 'those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population'.”
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The Office of Diversity Affairs offers "limited funding to provide additional financial support" to "aspiring medical professionals who come from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in the field of medicine" and students who "have a demonstrated [a] commitment to the diverse practice of medicine."
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The Health Disparities Summer Research Fellowship at Grossman "teaches medical students about inequities in health and healthcare and helps them develop skills that promote health equity." The fellowship helps future physicians identify health disparities "related to race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, income, and education." For two qualified medical students in the fellowship, the Office of Diversity Affairs offers six weeks of financial support.
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The Prospective MD Student Recruitment Liaison Program is run by the Office of Diversity Affairs along with the Office of Admissions, Black and Latinx Students’ Association (BALSA), and LGBTQMed. The program is for prospective students and aims to create a warm and welcoming environment.
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The Supporting, Educating, and Enriching Diversity (SEED) Mentoring Program was founded by members of the Student Diversity Initiative and "strives to enrich the academic, professional, and personal development of students from diverse backgrounds." Through the program, "mentees and mentors gather throughout the academic year to discuss topics relevant to diversity in medicine." It also aims "to provide inclusive spaces for open dialogue, and to foster a community of support in addressing and navigating the unique challenges faced by students of diverse backgrounds."
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- Resources
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NYU’s Health Sciences library offers a “Race and racism in medicine” resource guide, which includes Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist” and an article from the New York Times’ 1619 Project.
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The Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry’s Anti-Racism Task Force “has developed, implemented, and facilitated anti-racist learning activities across the department and within working groups through a series of facilitated dialogues. The purpose of these activities is to identify and dismantle practices that perpetuate racism. Although there is strength in the organized and conscious action behind these initiatives, equally important is structuring a system of collective accountability to guide this work.”
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The Office of Science Research has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team, which does “forward-looking programming and engagement, attention to opportunities for conversation and growth, a commitment to anti-racism, and crafting and championing policies and procedures that lead to equity.”
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The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Research team will be, “Providing educational resources that keep our community informed on developments within the field of DEI within the biomedical sciences.”
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The school has a Student Diversity Initiative, which is “a student-driven task force that addresses issues of diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency for medical students at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.”
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The school has “Diversity in Medical Education” programs, such as the “Practice of Medicine” (“a patient-centered program and continuity of care forum that helps medical students develop culturally competent clinical skills”) and “Health Disparities Selective” (a program where students “learn about health inequities that affect patient care and health outcomes through the health disparities selective, one of the MD degree selective courses. The four-week program uses readings, seminars, specialty clinics, and reflections to teach students about factors that can create health disparities, including race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, income, and education”).
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NYU Langone’s Section for Health Equity provides “education and training for health professionals doing health equity work and help to develop policy that promotes health equity and encourages participatory action.”
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The school’s Advanced Topics in Bioethics Elective has “Exploring Race and Racism in the History of Medicine” as one possible topic.
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From October 25-28, 2022, NYU Medical School participated in the 8th annual NYU Langone Health Disparities Symposium. Various university administrators and faculty spoke at and attended the event, including the medical school Director of Diversity and Inclusion. Events include "Intersectionality in Criminal-Justice Involved Populations", "Insufficient Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Breast Cancer Clinical Trials", and "Imputing race and ethnicity to better understand healthcare disparities: A case study of COVID-19 hospitalizations among Medicaid-insured adults in NYS."
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The 2022-23 schedule for Psychiatry Grand Rounds and Behavioral Health/Psychology Grand Rounds, weekly virtual lectures hosted by the Grossman School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, includes various lectures that blend anti-racism and DEI with health and medicine. On October 20, 2022, the school held a guest lecture titled "Engaging in Culturally Responsive, Anti-Racist Cognitive Behavioral Therapy." On December 15, 2022, NYU Grossman faculty gave a lecture titled "Cultural Humility." Further, the medical school plans to host an "Anti-Racism in Psychology" lecture on January 18, 2023.
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The Office of Diversity Affairs "plays a pivotal role in leading efforts to integrate inclusivity and equity throughout our educational programs and clinical settings."
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The mission of the "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Research Mission team" is to "lead and support initiatives that drive NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s research community such that all members have a sense of belonging and have the tools to thrive in their respective roles." The program has several "pillars," including "Recruiting and retaining a diverse cadre of students, faculty, and staff empowered to further our DEI mission" and "Providing educational resources that keep our community informed on developments within the field of DEI within biomedical science," among others focused on DEI.
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- Symbolic Actions
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The Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry “established an Anti-Racism Task Force with the goals of mobilizing to dismantle systemic racism in our department, at our institution, within the disciplines of child and adolescent psychiatry, and in the communities we serve; advocating for social justice; empowering and supporting racially minoritized colleagues and patients; encouraging and supporting white members of our department to explore white privilege and the impacts of systemic racism; and developing and fostering pathways to allyship.”
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The school received a $20 million award from the American Heart Association to spearhead "a new initiative known as the RESTORE Health Equity Research Network."
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In September of 2022, NYU Langone's Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology appointed Dr. Garfield Clunie as the inaugural Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. In his role, Dr. Clunie plans to "spearhead efforts to promote health equity goals across clinical care, research, and medical education, [collaborate] closely with the Office of Diversity Affairs and the Institute for Excellence in Health Equity."
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In October 2021, NYU Langone Health's Department of Psychiatry hired Dr. Ayana Jordan--"addiction expert and health equity advocate--as the Barbara Wilson Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pillar Leader for Community Engagement in NYU Langone's Institute for Excellence in Health Equity. Dr. Jordan was director of the Social Justice and Health Equity Curriculum during her time as faculty at Yale SOM, and participated in the Biden administration's White House Office of Public Engagement Leaders in Health Equity Roundtable Series.
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The School developed a "strategic roadmap" to combat systemic racism. The plan consists of four pillars, "optimizing organizational culture," "promoting inclusive community," "increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) capacity," and "developing and implementing equity-related knowledge." To achieve the plan, the school established several initiatives.
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NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine have an institutional "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement." It states, "We celebrate the inclusive excellence that is found in the contribution of diverse identities, interlinked identities (intersectionality), communities, and roles that make us a world-class institution in our tripartite mission of patient care, education, and research." It continues, "We will use our diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to excel in innovation and problem solving as we seek to achieve and even redefine excellence... We intentionally foster a learning and work environment of inclusivity, belonging, and respect for all."
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