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New York Medical College has a strong commitment to diversity, dating back to our earliest years as a medical school. Diversity and Inclusion works to ensure that the College’s student body, faculty and staff reflect the breadth of backgrounds and ethnic composition of the communities we and our graduates serve. Creating an inclusive environment means that we not only welcome diverse students to our campus, we also make every effort to ensure their success here and throughout their careers. All students at NYMC have the opportunity to take advantage of the wide range of services—tutorial services, career counseling, financial counseling, personal guidance and many other services—we offer to ensure that they thrive here. We also work on faculty and staff recruitment and retention, ensuring that underrepresented candidates and current employees have every opportunity for advancement. We continue to strengthen our performance in this area and welcome questions and feedback. Office of Diversity and Inclusion |
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion, School of Medicine encourages students to engage in research projects focused on addressing health inequity and healthcare disparities. NYMC SOM students (only) who are interested in participating in such research should contact the Diversity and Inclusion Office. Additional information on student research opportunities can be found on the Medical Student Research Opportunities page.
Each February, students are invited to present their research findings at the Medical Student Research Forum (MSRF). The MSRF is a way to promote student research and to provide an opportunity for medical students to present and share their findings with the College community.
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion supports diversity and inclusion efforts as demonstrated by its interaction with several student organizations on campus, including:
This includes participation in student club activities and club programming to encourage an inclusive learning environment.
For descriptions of our student partner organizations visit the Student Organizations section of our website.
The historical record indicates that the land currently occupied by New York Medical College's Westchester campus may have been traversed by and helped sustain Schaghticoke, Wappinger, and Munsee Lenape peoples prior to and for a time after the arrival of the Dutch in the 17th century. We acknowledge their prior presence on this land, and we pay respect to these communities, both past and present.
The Transformative Education Leadership Program (TELP) is entering its third year at New York Medical College. This program aims to combat Systemic Racism and Implicit Bias through Medical Education. We will select students to undergo intensive training aimed at developing the leadership skills to address bias and racism in medicine. The training will be led by Pamela Ludmer, M.D., M.M.E.L., SOM associate dean for curriculum integration and chair of the NYMC Anti-racism, Anti-bias and Health Inequities Steering Committee and Mill Etienne, M.D., M.P.H. ’02, vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion and SOM associate dean of student affairs.
TELP was created through a grant awarded by The Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society in 2021 to support an education leadership program, led by NYMC School of Medicine (SOM) students, to combat systemic racism and implicit bias in medical education. Since then, there has been overwhelming positive feedback among students, faculty, and standardized patients.
Sessions will take place throughout the summer and will be held on Zoom. These dates are tentative and subject to change:
Those interested in joining may fill out our TELP application. The deadline to apply is 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 30, 2023.