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Exploring potential collaboration with the NYC Department of Education for recruitment
1:45:22
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Council Member Dinowitz inquires about potential collaboration between the CUNY School of Medicine and the NYC Department of Education for recruitment efforts. Dr. Green discusses the school's interest in such partnerships and the current state of these efforts.
- Dr. Green acknowledges that collaboration with the Department of Education is a good idea and something they're interested in pursuing
- She notes that the school has only been operating independently since November, and they are still in the early stages of exploring various partnerships
- Dr. Green emphasizes that they are open to working with like-minded partners who want to invest in their students and school
- The discussion touches on the potential for creating more robust pipeline programs, similar to existing nursing programs that engage high school students
Eric Dinowitz
1:45:22
I mean, has the Department of Education I mean, are you in communication and discussion with the Department of Education?
1:45:27
And have they provided any supports for these types of programs?
Carmen Renée Green
1:45:34
Great question and great idea.
1:45:35
Anyway, I think that, you know, we had had conversation.
1:45:37
They wanted to talk about some other things.
1:45:39
And, you know, we look forward to those, you know, with any like minded partner, we look forward to that.
Eric Dinowitz
1:45:45
But it so what I'm hearing is, that's something you're interested in, but it's not something that's, sort of, on the table right now.
Carmen Renée Green
1:45:52
Well, we've only been we only see.
1:45:56
You know, really been actively working being able to do work as independent medical school since, you know, November.
1:46:04
I mean, even though the Board of Trustees, so that whole conversation regarding transitions.
1:46:08
People still don't know we exist.
1:46:10
You know, Ms.
1:46:12
Kara Berkowitz is starting to have people introduce us to them.
1:46:16
And so, we'll find some like minded people who will want to invest in our students and our school.
Eric Dinowitz
1:46:21
I went to Lehman College, has I think it's Lehman has CUNY on the concourse.
1:46:25
And a few years ago, I went to one of their great programs.
1:46:28
It was a it was a nursing program.
1:46:30
And, they had high school students who, I think, on the weekends and during the summer were engaged in, real practical work in the nursing field.
1:46:40
By the way, a field that is needed in the Bronx.
1:46:45
And it was amazing to see these students have they know where they wanted to go to to college and what their kind of career path was.
1:46:54
And high schoolers.
1:46:55
Yeah.
1:46:56
And I would love to see that sort of, engagement for high schoolers and middle schoolers in the med in the other medical degrees
Carmen Renée Green
1:47:05
Yeah.
Eric Dinowitz
1:47:05
That are available through CUNY School of Medicine.
Carmen Renée Green
1:47:08
Yeah.
1:47:08
And we do that.
Eric Dinowitz
1:47:09
Yeah.
1:47:09
So there's We have 2
Carmen Renée Green
1:47:10
programs, summer program for, high schoolers.
1:47:14
We've got a year long program for high schoolers.
1:47:18
So but would we like to expand those?
1:47:20
Absolutely.
1:47:22
Would we like to have more students?
1:47:24
Yes.
1:47:25
And you know, I'm happy to just, you know, talk more about, you know, how you might be helpful in helping to support that.
1:47:33
You know, we again, we're working on kind of an ultra lean budget here.
1:47:38
But we know there's a lot of talent out there and it needs to be developed.
1:47:42
You know, I call it sometimes undervalued talent.
1:47:46
Mhmm.
1:47:46
Right?
1:47:47
And I think you and I know a little bit of investors, you get a huge return on investment in undervalued, stock.
Eric Dinowitz
1:47:55
Yeah.
1:47:55
That's right.
1:47:55
I saw it every day in the in the classroom.
1:48:00
I'm sure you see it every day.
1:48:02
And I just, you know, I wish for my students, you know, people like all these careers in the abstract.
1:48:08
Right?
1:48:08
I want to be a I want to be a doctor.
1:48:10
I want to be an astronaut.
1:48:12
I want to be the president.
1:48:13
But to have a school, to have a CUNY system, to have the Department of Education go in and actually say, here's what it looks like.
1:48:21
Here are your opportunities.
1:48:23
You can get your summer internship money.
1:48:26
You can get these certifications.
1:48:28
Yeah.
1:48:28
Go into college already with credits.
1:48:30
I mean, that's a totally different approach than putting an ad on the subway, which nothing against the CUNY School of Medicine, but every time CUNY comes, very often I ask about what does recruitment look like?
1:48:44
What is and they say, oh, we put ads on the subway.
1:48:47
And Yeah.
1:48:49
It's just what it is.
Carmen Renée Green
1:48:52
No.
1:48:52
That's not our work.
1:48:54
That's not how well, there may be I'm not certain there's a CUNY School of Medicine ad on the subway.
Eric Dinowitz
1:48:59
So it's like a CUNY Yeah.
1:49:01
Just CUNY.
Carmen Renée Green
1:49:01
But I think Yeah.
1:49:02
No.
1:49:03
I'm It's a bit of a, of a joke, but I think But I what I say is that we have actually we're doing it on the ground floor.
1:49:11
Right?
1:49:13
We want to do more.
1:49:16
We can do more with additional resources.
1:49:20
But we do really great things, big things with the resources that we have.
1:49:26
And so, that's how I respond to you then on that one.