Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education

The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education is now an eight-year medical program (previously a seven-year program for those who entered the school prior to 2010) that was established at The City College of the City University of New York in New York City. It offers an integrated baccalaureate education with preclinical medical education and has a twofold mission: to expand access to medical careers among inner-city youths, particularly among underrepresented minorities, and to encourage the pursuit of primary care specialties among its graduates.

Students complete their undergraduate work (BS) and the first two years of medical school at Sophie Davis (after which they complete the USMLE Step 1) after which students transfer to one of the accompanying medical schools to finish their final two years of medical school which are primarily medical rotations earning their MD. Currently, Dartmouth Medical School, NYU Medical School, New York Medical College, Stony Brook School of Medicine, Albany Medical College and SUNY Downstate Medical Center are match schools for Sophie Davis graduates.

Sophie Davis also offers a 28-month upper division program leading to a BS degree and certification as a Physician Assistant. It was one of the first baccalaureate degree-granting physician assistant programs in the country.

In 2011 the school also launched its BS-DDS program where students enrolled in the dual program complete there BS at Sophie Davis before transferring to the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine to complete their training.

History

Established in 1973 to address the growing need in the United States -- especially in inner city areas—for primary care physicians, the school began as a destination for talented New York City high school graduates of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. It has a rigorous course curriculum where most of its graduates become general physicians. Those who choose not to become general physicians must repay the school a fee.

It is named after Sophie Kesner, who was Leonard Davis's wife, because Mr. Davis, a graduate of CCNY, was a major benefactor of the school.

Program Offered

BS/MD (Bachelor of Science / Medical Doctorate)

Curriculum

First Year (Fall)

Biology of Organisms

General Physics I

English

Elective

First Year (Spring)

General Chemistry

General Physics II

World Civilizations

Elective

Second Year (Fall)

Bio-Organic Chemistry

Genetics

Psychology

Biostatistics

Elective

Second Year (Spring)

Molecules to Cells I (Biochemistry/Molecular Biology/Medical Genetics)

Health, Medicine, and Society I, II, III

Elective

Third Year (Fall)

Molecules to Cells II (Biochemistry/Molecular Biology/Medical Genetics)

Health, Medicine, and Society IV (Epidemiology)

Philosophy of the Rational Animal

United States History

Elective

Third Year (Spring)

Structure (Gross Anatomy/ Embryology / Organ Imaging)

Histology

Physiology I (Systemic Functions)

Fourth Year (Fall)

Behavioral Medicine

Physiology II (Systemic Functions)

Medical Pharmacology

Patient-Doctor I

Health, Medicine, and Society V (U.S. Health Care)

Fourth Year (Spring)

Neuroscience

Host Defense, Immunology, and Pathogenesis

Patient-Doctor II

Fifth Year (Fall)

Neuropsychiatry

System Pathology

Introduction to Clinical Medicine I

Clinical Decision Making and Evidence-Based Medicine

Fifth Year (Spring)

Physical Diagnosis

Introduction to Clinical Medicine II

Location

Address: 160 Convent Ave, Harris Hall, Room 107, New York, NY 10031

In 2003 it moved into its permanent home in Townsend Harris Hall, which had been renovated as part of CCNY's Terra Cotta Restoration Project, and to build modern teaching capabilities into its classrooms, seminar rooms, a long-distance conference room, and teaching laboratories.

See also

• City University of New York
• Education in New York City

External links

• Leonard and Sophie Davis
• Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education