NYU School of Medicine
Founded in 1841, the School of Medicine includes the Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center, devoted to translational (patient-oriented) medicine; the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, a basic research facility; the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, which offers interdisciplinary training programs in the basic medical sciences, leading to the Ph.D. degree; and the NYU Post-Graduate Medical School, offering continuing medical education courses to physicians and other biomedical health professionals.
NYU School of Medicine enrolls approximately 700 students, including about 70 in the M.D./Ph.D. training program, and over 1,100 residents and fellows. Its total faculty numbers over 4,500, both full- and part-time.
NYU School of Medicine has four recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine among their alumni and former faculty. The faculty also includes six Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators, eight Institute of Medicine members, and six National Academy of Science members. Ten are fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and eight are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The School of Medicine maintains affiliations with several leading area hospitals, including the Bellevue Hospital Center, the nation’s oldest public hospital, which serves as its primary teaching affiliate, the Manhattan Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, Gouverneur Healthcare Services in Manhattan, and the New York Harbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
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