Over a century ago, American educator Abraham Flexner established what would become a traditional curriculum structure for U.S. medical schools: two years of basic science education in the classroom followed by two years of clinical experience. Although medical schools have been successful at producing physicians, Flexner could not have imagined the modern practice of medicine Read more
Med Students
As first-year medical students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, we focus in our Introduction to Clinical Medicine course on developing and sharpening our communication and history-taking skills. The wards of third year will come quickly enough, and we need to be ready to interact with patients. In this intense first-year course Read more
Anna is an elderly, vibrant patient who doesn’t remember what brought her to the hospital this time, but she enjoys company, and an audience for her life’s stories. She tells me about growing up in the only Hispanic family in an Italian neighborhood, raising her children, becoming a widow, adopting a few too many stray Read more
Dr. Michael Reichgott has been leading medical education efforts and influencing faculty and students throughout his 30-year career at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Now, his peers have recognized him with a top honor. A member of the Einstein class of 1965, Dr. Reichgott is the 2014 recipient of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) Read more
A recent post on this blog by Dr. Yvette Calderon, associate dean for diversity enhancement at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, described the importance of mentors and role models as she navigated her way through the unfamiliar territory of medical school and residency in the 1980s. Now, one of her central roles is to act Read more
I get an hour to teach Albert Einstein College of Medicine third-year students a formal lecture in obstetrics during their six-week rotations, so I cram in a lot of information during that session. Of course, I spend more time with them informally; we see patients together on labor and delivery, or in clinic at Montefiore Read more
