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Distribution of CUNY Medicine graduates in New York City
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Dr. Green provides information on where CUNY School of Medicine graduates end up working, highlighting their impact on the local healthcare workforce.
- 75% of CUNY School of Medicine graduates stay in New York, which is almost double the rate of other New York City medical schools
- Graduates are distributed throughout New York City, but specific borough-level data was not immediately available
- The school is actively working to place graduates in underserved areas and safety net hospitals
Eric Dinowitz
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makes sense.
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Yeah.
0:46:14
Just to clarify.
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So the the reason I I also didn't get the distribution.
0:46:19
So 75% of students stay in New York.
0:46:21
I I do wanna know if you know the distribution to what neighborhoods or or boroughs, but it's I just wanna make sure I'm hearing you right that the students may want to go to work in the Bronx or in Queens, where the ratio of providers to residents is much lower than, let's say, Manhattan.
0:46:38
But But that you're saying that there's even disparities within neighborhoods in Manhattan.
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Yeah.
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But but you're saying that just the spots don't exist, that the opportunities for your students don't exist for them to work, in the hardship areas.
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Is is that accurate?
Carmen Renée Green
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Well, in the past, there have been affiliation agreements, where they work with one medical school or another.
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And so we've slowly but surely gotten a foothold into some of these areas.
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We hope that there will be more to come.
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I would like to tell you about a story of a student who We were having, interviews for our Gold Humanism Honor Society and a student who's from New York fell in love with the Bronx.
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Because of the fact Well, why wouldn't they?
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Anyway.
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So, wants to work in the Bronx.
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Wants to come back and work in the Bronx because she saw those deep disparities where she can make a difference.
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So we look forward to really enhancing our pipeline programs because we think that's going to make a difference, from these areas that are most underserved.
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But our limitation remains the number of seats, and then the clinical course partnership partners.
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It be, not wise of me to take a class of 300 when I only have a 100 spot.
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100, places to put in the clerkships.
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So we're working actively in that space, to get more spots.
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And I would also say that, you know, I'm not opposed to doing some things more regionally, if the spaces became available.
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Did I answer your question?
Eric Dinowitz
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Yeah.
0:48:21
Thank thank you.
0:48:22
I think at some later point, I I understand completely.
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I'm interested in what those distribution numbers are.
0:48:29
Like, where do your students go off and, make acquire medical, jobs?
0:48:38
Yeah.
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Right?
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Where where they end up working?
Carmen Renée Green
0:48:40
They're down in New York City, but I can get you a specific breakdown as to where they are.
Eric Dinowitz
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Because I you know, because part of it is, you mentioned in your testimony, one of the great things, that the CUNY School of Medicine does is there's such better admission rates and outcomes for students of color, for immigrant students than anywhere in the country?