New York College of Podiatric Medicine
Catalog 2021-2022
Affiliated with Foot Center of New York Harlem Hospital Center Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Metropolitan Hospital Center Morrisania Diagnostic & Treatment Center Mount Sinai Hospital Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital New York Medical College/Touro University NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Sydenham
53 East 124th Street, New York, NY 10035 1-800-526-6966; (212)410-8098 Fax: (212)722-4918 www.nycpm.edu
1st Edition ● July 1, 2021
2021-2022 Catalog
The New York College of Podiatric The information in this Catalog is current as Medicine endeavors to present an accurate of the publication date shown on page 1. overview of its curriculum programs, Please refer to the current online NYCPM facilities, fees and policies in this catalog at http://www.nycpm.edu for publication. The College’s policies are definitive curricular and course information. stated in detail in the Student Handbook, In case of discrepancies between the PDF which should be referred to for full version of the current catalog or information. It may be accessed departmental materials and Syllabi, the live online at the College’s web site, version of the catalog found at www.nycpm.edu. http://www.nycpm.edu is considered the authoritative source.
The New York College of Podiatric Medicine, in compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Article 129-A of the NYS Education Law, and all other applicable Federal, State and local regulations, does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, age, veteran status, sex, sexual orientation, or disability in its educational policies, admissions policies, employment policies or services to the public.
In accordance with these laws, the College also prohibits retaliation against anyone who has complained about discrimination or otherwise exercised rights guaranteed under these laws. The Compliance Officer for the New York College of Podiatric Medicine is Joel A. Sturm. Mr. Sturm's office is located on the second floor of the College. He may be reached by telephone at (212) 410-8047.
The College compiles annual crime statistics as required under Section 20 of the U.S. Code Section 1092(f). The Advisory Committee on Campus Safety/Security (James Warren, Chair) will provide upon request all campus crime statistics as reported to the United States Department of Education.
Please address inquiries regarding admission to: OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS AND ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT NEW YORK COLLEGE OF PODIATRIC MEDICINE 53 East 124th Street, New York, NY 10035
1-800-526-6966 or 1-212-410-8098
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3 Table of Contents
Academic Calendar 2021-2022 ...... 5 Accreditation ...... 10 Vision and Mission Statement ...... 11 Message from the Chairman ...... 12 Message from the President ...... 13 Podiatric Medicine Is ...... 14 Podiatric Medical Education ...... 15 The Foot Center of New York ...... 16 College Facilities ...... 17 Admission to the College—General Policies ...... 19 Admission Requirements ...... 19 Requirements for International and Transfer Applicants ...... 20 Application Procedures ...... 22 Procedures for International or Transfer Applicants ...... 23 The January Entering Class ...... 24 Selection of Students ...... 24 D.P.M./M.P.H. Dual Degree program ...... 25 Additional Requirements for Enrollment ...... 25 Professional and Technical Standards ...... 27 Admissions Tests and Letters of Evaluation ...... 29 Scholarships (see also Financial Aid; Academic Standards & Guidelines) ...... 29 Articulation Agreements ...... 30 Tuition and Fees ...... 32 Financial Aid ...... 37 Scholarships (see also Academic Standards & Guidelines) ...... 52 Student Services ...... 54 Student Life ...... 59 Library Services ...... 64 Academic Standards and Guidelines ...... 66 The D.P.M. Program Listed by Year and Semester ...... 72 The Doctor of Podiatric Medicine Curriculum—Course Descriptions ...... 77 Division of Pre-Clinical Sciences ...... 77 Division of Clinical Education ...... 82 Medical Sciences ...... 82 Orthopedics and Pediatrics ...... 87 Surgical Sciences ...... 90 Community Health and Medicine ...... 93 Research ...... 95 “Capstone” Clinical Assessment ...... 97 Academic Department of Orthopedic Surgery ...... 97 Junior and Senior Student Clerkships ...... 98 International Clerkships ...... 99 External Programs ...... 100 Continuing Medical Education ...... 106 Board of Trustees ...... 108 Executive Officers ...... 109 Academic Administration ...... 110 Administration & Operations; Finance ...... 111 Faculty ...... 112 History of the College ...... 119 Alumni Association ...... 121 Telephone and E-mail Directory ...... 122
4 2021-2022 Academic Calendar
2021-2022 Academic Calendar
The following calendar lists dates as planned for the 2021-22 academic year at the time of publication. All dates (except fixed holidays and religious observances) are subject to change. See notes at the end of the calendar. Hospital duties are normally still in effect on dates when the College and Clinic are closed or close early.
2021 Thursday May 13 Eid al Fitr (tentative date, begins evening of May 12, ends Evening May 13.)
Monday May 31 Memorial Day (College & Clinic closed) Tues. - Mon. May 25 – June 4 Part I Board Reviews for Class of 2023 Mon. – Tues. May 17 - 18 Shavuot (begins the evening of May 16) Tuesday June 1 Second Year (‘24) Semester III/Classes begin Wednesday June 2 APMLE Part III (registration deadline May 21) Monday June 28 Third Year (‘23) Semester V begins Monday June 28 Fourth Year (‘22) Semester VII begins Thursday July 1 APMLE Part I exam (last day to register June 18, 2021) Sunday July 4 Independence Day (College & Clinic closed) Monday July 5 Independence Day Observed (College & Clinic closed) Tuesday July 6 Third Year (‘23) Semester V/Classes begin Sunday July 11 Fast of Tamuz* Friday July TBD 12:00-5:00 PM: Residency Fair at NYCPM Sunday July 18 Tish B’av (No Class) Monday July 19 Day after Tish B’av** TBD TBD APMLE Part II CSPE Exam Registration Deadline Tuesday July 20 Eid al-Adha (tentative date, begins evening of July 19 ends evening of July 20.)
Mon. – Wed. August 16-18 Orientation/Registration for Class of 2025 Wednesday August 18th 5-7 PM: White Coat Ceremony at the New York Academy of Medicine. Class of 2025 must arrive no later than 4:30. Thursday August 19 First Year (‘25) Semester I & Term 2/Classes begin
5 TBD TBD APMLE Part II CSPE Exam (Registration deadline TBD) Sat.-Sun. Aug 28 - Sept. 5 Second Year (‘24) recess Monday September 6 Labor Day—College & Clinic closed Friday September 10 Faculty Retreat Monday September 6 Rosh Hashanah Eve*(Class until 12 pm.) Tues. – Wed. September 7- 8 Rosh Hashanah (starts evening of Monday the 6th) (No Class) Thursday September 9 Fast of Gedalia** Wednesday September 15 Eve of Yom Kippur* (Class until 12 pm) Thursday September 16 Yom Kippur (starts evening of Wednesday 15th) (No Class) Friday September 17 Registration deadline for APMLE Part I Monday September 20 Sukkoth Eve (Class until 12pm) Tues. – Wed. Sept. 21 - 22 First two days of Sukkoth (Begins eve Mon. the 20) (No Class) Monday September 27 Hoshana Rabba*(Class until 12 pm) Tues. Wed. Sept. 28 - 29 Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah (No Class) Thursday September 30 Day after Simchat Torah** Monday October 4 APMLE Part I (retake) (registration by September 17, 2021) Friday October 1 Second Year (‘24) Semester III Last day of classes Mon.-Fri. Oct. 4-8 Second Year (‘24) Semester III Final Exam Period Sat.-Sun. Oct. 9 - Oct. 31 Second Year (‘24) recess Sat.-Fri. Oct. 9 – 29 Second Year (‘24) study and retest period Friday October 8 Second Year (‘24) Semester III ends Monday November 1 Second Year (‘24) Semester IV/Classes-A Session 1 begins Thursday November 4 Diwali Thurs.- Wed. Nov. 11-24 Third Year (‘23) Semester V Final Exam Period Wednesday November 17 First Year (‘25) Semester I ends/Last day of classes Wednesday November 24 Thanksgiving Day Eve College & Clinic close at 2:00 (does not affect hospital duties) Thursday November 25 Thanksgiving Day – College & Clinic closed Friday November 26 Third Year (‘23) Semester V ends Friday November 26 Day after Thanksgiving – College & Clinic closed Thu. - Sun. Nov. 25 - 28 Thanksgiving Recess: College closed Mon.-Thu. Nov. 29 - Dec. 9 First Year (‘25) Semester I/Term 2 Final Exam Period Monday November 29 Third Year (‘23) Semester VI/Classes begin Monday November 29 First Day of Chanukah
6 Thursday December 2 APMLE part III exam (retake) Thursday December 9 First Year (‘25) Semester I/Term 2 ends Monday December 6 Last day of Chanukah TBD TBD APMLE Part II (Registration deadline TBD) Fri.-Thurs. Dec. 10 - 23 First Year (‘25) study and retest period Fri. - Sun Dec. 10 - Jan. 2 First Year (‘25) winter recess Thur. - Thur. Dec. 9 - 23 Second Year (‘24) winter recess Friday December 31 Fourth Year (’22) Semester VII ends Friday December 24 Christmas Eve-College & Clinic Closed, Holiday Observed Saturday December 25 Christmas—College & Clinic closed Friday December 31 New Year’s Eve – Coll. & Clinic Closed, Holiday Observed
2022 Saturday January 1 New Year’s Day—College and Clinic closed Mon. – Tues. January 3 & 4 First Year Term 1 (‘26) Orientation/Registration Wednesday January 5 First Year (‘25) Semester II & Term 3 & Term 1 (‘26) Classes begin
Thurs. – Tues. Jan 6- 11 CRIP 2022 Friday January 7 Orthodox Christmas Monday January 17 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day—College & Clinic closed Tuesday January 18 Fourth Year (‘22) Semester VIII/Classes begin Thu. - Sun. Jan. 20 - 23 Second Year (‘24) recess TBD TBD APMPLE Part II CSPE (retake) registration deadline Tuesday February 1 Asian Lunar New Year Monday February 21 Presidents’ Day—College & Clinic closed TBD TBD APMLE Part II CSPE Exam (retake) TBD TBD APMLE Part II exam (retake) Fri.-Sun. March 11-20 First year (‘25, ‘26) recess Wednesday March 16 Fast of Esther (Class until 5pm) Thursday March 17 Purim (Begins the evening of March 16.) (No Class) Friday March 18 Day after Purim** Thu. - Sun. Mar. 17-20 Third Year (‘23) recess
7 Mon.-Fri. Mar. 21 -Apr. 1 Second Year (‘24) Semester IV Final Exams Period Sat.- Fri. Apr. 2 - 22 Second Year (‘24) Study & retest period Sat.-Sun. Apr. 2 - 24 Second Year (‘24) recess Friday April 15 Good Friday Friday April 15 Eve of Passover (Class until 12pm) Sat. – Sun. April 16 - 17 First two days of Passover (Begins evening of 15th) (No Class) Sunday April 17 Easter Fri. – Sat. Apr. 22 - 23 Last two days of Passover (No Class) Saturday April 2 Ramadan begins (Tentative date begins evening of April 1) Monday April 25 First Year (‘25) Semester II /Term 3, First Year Jan (‘26) Term 1 last day of classes
Mon.-Fri. April 25 – May 21 Second Year (‘24) Semester IV– NYCPM Clinical Skills I Wed.- Fri. April 27 – May 6 First Year (‘25) Semester II, Final Exam Period
Thursday May 5 5:00-7:00 Annual Awards Ceremony Friday May 6 First Year (‘25) Semester II ends Friday May 6 Capstone Assessment for Third Year (‘23) students Mon. – Tues. May 2 - 3 Eid al Fitr (tentative date, begins evening of May 2, ends Evening May 3.)
Sat.-Fri. May 7 - 20 First Year (‘25& ‘26) study and retest Period Mon.-Fri. May 9 - 13 Class of 2023 Registration Period for Semester VII Friday May 13 Capstone Assessment for Third Year (‘23) students Friday May 13 Fourth Year (‘22) Semester VIII ends/Last day of Clinicals Tues.-Fri. May 24 - June 3 Board Reviews for Class of 2023 Wednesday May 25 Commencement Rehearsal—10:00 am to 12:00 pm Thursday May 26 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Commencement 2022 Monday May 30 Memorial Day—College & Clinic closed Mon. – Sat. June 6 - 24 NYCPM Clinical Skills Part II Saturday June 24 Second Year (‘24) Semester IV ends TBD TBD APMLE Part III TBD TBD Registration deadline for APMLE Part I in July 2022 Friday June 3 Third Year (‘23) Last Day of Classes Sun. – Mon. June 5 – 6 Shavout (begins evening of June 4) (No Class)
8 Tuesday June 7 Day after Shavout** Friday June 17 Third Year (‘23) Semester VI ends TBD TBD APMLE Part I TBD TBD APMSA Annual House of Delegates
Calendar revised 7/1/21
Important Notes Regarding the Academic Calendar
1. Each program has its own calendar which you can consult for specific information regarding the dates for the start and end of each semester, examination periods, deadlines for adding or dropping courses, periods of clinical rotations, dates for winter breaks and/or specifics of Spring Breaks and perhaps other variations in the calendar for that program. Please note that the school buildings close at 3pm on Fridays and are closed on all Saturdays. *Preferably no tests are given **No tests to be given (NO Class) 2. Students are re-registered for each new semester. This procedure does not imply either academic or financial eligibility for registration. 3. In special circumstances Students who fail to qualify for registration during regular registration dates are subject to late registration, within the late registration period. may be given Permission to attend classes prior to being registered registering does not imply the right to be registered nor to receive academic credit. 4. “College & Clinic closed” does not refer to status of clinical rotations at hospitals. Students are responsible to attend all rotations at off-campus facilities regardless of closures of NYCPM and FCNY. 5. Study/retest periods often (not always) coincide or overlap with class recess dates for those students who do not need to retest. 6. Final exam periods may not apply to all courses; finals for certain courses are scheduled earlier or later, as published in class schedules and syllabi, with retest periods scheduled accordingly. Always consult syllabi and class schedules regarding exams and retest dates.
9 Accreditation
The New York College of Podiatric The New York College of Podiatric Medicine is accredited by the Council on Medicine is chartered by the Regents of the Podiatric Medical Education. Accreditation University of the State of New York and is is an indication of public approbation, authorized to award the degree of Doctor of attesting to the quality of the podiatric Podiatric Medicine. The Podiatric Medicine medical education program and the program is registered by the New York continued commitment of the institution to State Education Department as meeting the support the educational program. The professional education requirement for Council is recognized as the professional licensure in New York State as set forth in institutional accrediting agency for New York State Education Law, the Rules podiatric medical education by the U. S. of New York State Board of Regents, and Department of Education and by the the Regulations of the New York State Council for Higher Education Commissioner of Education. The HEGIS Accreditation. For further information, code for the Podiatric Medicine program is please contact the Council on Podiatric 1216.00. The Board of Regents is a Medical Education at the following address: nationally recognized accrediting agency by the United States Department of Education. Council on Podiatric Medical Education 9312 Old Georgetown Road An important affiliate of NYCPM, the Foot Bethesda, MD 20814 Center of New York (FCNY) is an Article 28 (301) 571-9200 Diagnostic and Treatment (D&T) center located in New York City. FCNY was certi- fied and licensed by the New York State Department of Health as a D&T center in 1980 and since then has become a major health care provider of Podiatric Medicine and primary healthcare for the communities surrounding the College and its teaching clinics.
10 Vision and Mission Statement
Vision: To be an institution of excellence in the field of podiatric medical education.
Mission: It is the College's mission to provide, to students seeking careers as doctors of podiatric medicine, a comprehensive medical educational program specializing in the medical and surgical management of the lower extremity, with the ability to diagnose systemic diseases and their lower extremity manifestations. The College will prepare students for eligibility for Graduate Medical Education, licensure and practice. Furthermore, it is the College’s mission to promote state-of-the art patient care in affiliated facilities, and to pursue research to continuously advance the art and science of podiatric medicine.
The College accomplishes this mission by striving to achieve the following goals: I. Provide a quality educational environment based upon a comprehensive pre- clinical and clinical science curriculum. II. Provide skilled and qualified faculty to deliver the educational program. III. Recruit, accept, enroll and retain highly qualified students. IV. Provide student services that support the podiatric medical educational program. V. Develop quality graduate medical education leading to eligibility for Board Certification. VI. Provide quality continuing medical education programs. VII. Maintain existing and develop new affiliations with academic institutions, hospitals, extension/satellite clinics and/or community health centers to enhance the education of our students. VIII. Support pre-clinical, clinical and educational research. IX. Serve as a global resource to provide information and education on podiatric medicine.
X. Adapt the College to the ever-changing educational and health care environments to promote its educational quality and financial stability.
11 Message from the Chairman
I am honored to serve as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New York College of Podiatric Medicine.
NYCPM was the first and is the largest college of podiatric medicine, with a longstanding tradition of providing the most challenging academic curriculum and clinical training programs for its students. Dedicated students who apply themselves will thrive in this four-year program, which prepares them to enter residency podiatric medical training well-equipped to succeed in the discipline of podiatric medicine.
In the treatment rooms of NYCPM’s next-door clinical teaching affiliate, The Foot Center of New York, third-year students observe and begin to participate in the care of thousands of patients a year. The interaction with and care of patients continues as students rotate through our seven external affiliates: Harlem Hospital Center; Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center; Metropolitan Hospital Center; Morrisania Diagnostic & Treatment Center; Mount Sinai Hospital; New York Medical College/Touro University; and Gotham Health/Sydenham.
These health-care organizations provide unique educational and learning opportunities for our students, who encounter patients with a significantly wide variety of podiatric problems and systemic diseases. In addition, graduate podiatric medical education programs are being expanded to include general medical and health care services, and the opportunity for clinical staff to participate in research programs.
Doctors of Podiatric Medicine, alumni all, as well as business and community leaders, serve as trustees on the College’s Board. This representation ensures sensitivity to the needs of the podiatric medical student and a progressive curriculum, reflective of evolving trends within the profession.
The responsibility of the Board and the College does not end with Commencement. Rather, the Board maintains an active interest in the careers of our alumni, encouraging and supporting them along their career paths. It is the Board’s aim to nurture and instill in every student the ability to become a successful, productive Doctor of Podiatric Medicine. By doing so, the Board fulfills its responsibility to the student body, the community it serves, and the profession of podiatric medicine.
Gabriel Caprio, M.B.A., L.H.D. Chairman, Board of Trustees
12 Message from the President
The New York College of Podiatric Medicine (NYCPM) stands proudly in the forefront of podiatric medical education. Founded in 1911, it was the first and is now the largest college of podiatric medicine. From the beginning, the College has sought to provide a progressive and comprehensive program of podiatric medical education and clinical training designed to prepare the Doctor of Podiatric Medicine for eligibility for graduate podiatric medical training residency and success beyond.
The wonderfully diverse student body of NYCPM is drawn from the New York metropolitan area, from states across the U.S. and from many countries as well. The patients at our next-door clinical teaching affiliate, The Foot Center of New York, reflect the heterogeneous composition of its East Harlem community and of the city as a whole.
Clinic patients present many problems that stem from foot structure and local pathologies that require treatment within podiatric medicine and its specialties. Clinic patients may also present problems that result from undiagnosed systemic disease (e.g., diabetes, peripheral arterial disease); doctors of podiatric medicine play important roles in recognizing these diseases and in helping these patients obtain the medical treatment they need – and periodically thus saving lives! Students spend time in clinic observing and learning, serving in clerkships in senior year at nearby hospitals, and in elective externships nationally and internationally.
In addition, the NYCPM program prepares students to pursue specialties within podiatric medicine if desired. You will have ample time to discuss and consider professional practicing options with faculty and advisors. You may elect to specialize in podiatric surgery, orthopedics, sports medicine and rehabilitation therapy, biomechanics, pediatrics, and/or treatment of the diabetic foot and wound care. Upon graduation, the College endeavors to place students in residency programs of personal choice wherever possible.
Consistent with our vision of meeting healthcare challenges, NYCPM has affiliated with some of the leading medical institutions in the country. In New York, in addition to our clinical teaching affiliate, The Foot Center of New York, we are affiliated with Harlem Hospital Center, Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center, Metropolitan Hospital Center, Morrisania Diagnostic & Treatment Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York Medical College/Touro University, and Gotham Health/Sydenham. These partnerships offer the opportunity to serve a wide variety of patients in departments dedicated to podiatric services at leading health care institutions; greater educational and clinical training opportunities for students; expanded graduate medical education programs; and participation in joint research projects.
The profession of podiatric medicine presents many opportunities for skilled and dedicated practitioners who serve the public and the profession. It is my fond hope that I can count you among those who accept the challenge the profession offers.
Louis L. Levine, M.A., L.H.D., C.S.W. President and Chief Executive Officer
13 Podiatric Medicine Is…
…the discipline which deals with prevention, diagnosis and treatment of afflictions involving the lower extremity. Each state has specific requirements and/or laws governing the practice of podiatric medicine within that state.
The podiatrist orders or performs those diagnostic tests required to arrive at the local or systemic etiology of pathologies manifested in the lower extremity. The podiatrist, in addition to maintaining foot health, includes in his/her scope of practice the taking and interpretation of X-rays; prescribing medications; administering local anesthetics, performing hospital and/or office-based surgery; performing physical therapy and general history and physical examinations.
Often, systemic illnesses and disorders are initially manifested in the foot and lower extremity, where the podiatrist is frequently the first health care provider to recognize and refer when necessary those patients requiring immediate and/or long-term health care. A vast array of medical and surgical procedures is part of the scope of practice of podiatric medicine.
Qualification for a license to practice podiatry requires the applicant to be a graduate from an accredited college of podiatric medicine, who has passed the applicable licensing examination and requirements of the state, in which the podiatrist plans to practice, and/or the National Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners Basic Science and Clinical Examinations. In addition, many states require a period of graduate medical residency training and/or other graduate medical education meeting their specific requirements for licensure.
14 Podiatric Medical Education
Scope and Curriculum: The New York clinical correlations are presented. General College of Podiatric Medicine offers a four- physical diagnosis skills are introduced in year program of study; the ultimate goal of the Freshman year and reinforced which is to prepare the graduate to enter throughout the Sophomore year. Study in graduate podiatric medical training the third year revolves, predominately, programs. A composite of traditional and around a combination of didactic lectures problem-based learning serves as the and departmentalized clinical clerkships in fundamental structure of the curriculum. areas pertaining to the lower extremity. The fourth year devotes itself to diagnostic skills The podiatric medical curriculum is through problem solving in clinical settings. designed for students who have already Students rotate through hospital-based received required prerequisite education in clerkships in General Surgery, Internal chemistry, physics and biology. The Medicine, Emergency Medicine and curriculum of the New York College of General Radiology, and also spend four Podiatric Medicine parallels that of months in elective externships. allopathic/osteopathic medicine in that it consists of two years of pre-clinical and two The clinical opportunities at the Foot Center years of clinical sciences. and affiliated hospitals are unsurpassed regarding the number of patients and the The practitioner of podiatric medicine must variety of podiatric disorders encountered master a comprehensive knowledge of and treated. Annually, the Foot Center of Medical Sciences including but not limited New York records approximately forty to: clinical anatomy, biochemistry, thousand patient visits. Students receive physiology, pathology, pharmacology, practical training under the direct neuroanatomy, immunology, genetics and supervision of the College's distinguished bacteriology of the body and its systems. academic and clinical faculty. Clinical This knowledge prepares the student to training includes the requirement to enter the clinical training years of the diagnose ("work up") patients and propose program. appropriate treatment plans.
At present, the courses are arranged such The program of study includes related that the student begins study with courses in Medical Ethics, Research and fundamental information of normal Community Medicine acquainting the structure and function of the human body. student with the community and This is followed by combined pre-clinical professional entities to be served and the and general clinical science information in specific obligations/restrictions attendant in the second year, where fundamentals of practice on the Doctor of Podiatric pathologic diseases are introduced, and Medicine.
15 The Foot Center of New York
The Foot Center of New York (FCNY), a Each student will spend in excess of 2,000 separate 501(C)-(3) corporation that resides hours of education in clinical settings. With on the property of our campus, is our its move into new clinical facilities in primary service affiliate. FCNY is an Article February 1978, FCNY saw its patient 28 Diagnostic and Treatment (D8T) facility population grow tremendously. FCNY is licensed by the Department of Health of the affiliated with hospitals in the states of New State of New York. York and New Jersey. Its external program includes VA medical centers and private In the Foot Center of New York, third, and practices throughout the United States. fourth, year podiatric medical students receive extensive exposure to patient care. FCNY's patient population, combined with our clinical and physical facilities, allows The Foot Center is organized into divisions. for one of the most comprehensive Students rotate through the divisions of programs of clinical education in podiatric Podiatric Medical Sciences, Podiatric medicine. Orthopedics, Podiatric Pediatrics, Podiatric Radiology, Podiatric Surgery and General Lastly, in addition to complete podiatric Medical Services. Each area specializes in a services, the Foot Center also hosts vascular different aspect of treatment within the services provided by Mt. Sinai Hospital. Scope of Practice. There is also an orthotics division. All of which are available to student rotations and learning.
16 Facilities of the College
The campus of the New York College of podiatric, educational, and peer-reviewed Podiatric Medicine is designed to serve the journals, half of which are also available needs of students and faculty in a compact, online through the library webpage. The safe and attractive environment. The Director of Library Services provides hands- urban, two-building campus includes a six- on classes in using electronic and print level structure housing lecture, lab and resources. conference facilities, offices of faculty and administrators, the Student Services and The Bako Gross Anatomy Laboratory is a Admissions suite, a student lounge and a laboratory with Video cameras that enable cafeteria. work being done in the lab to be displayed and viewed across multiple monitors in the The second building has three levels classrooms. including such facilities as large and small lecture halls, the library, a large computer J.T. Tai Classroom includes flexible seating lab, the Information Services department, for 40, an electronic podium, large flat fitness and recreation center, and extensive screen monitor and White Board. clinical facilities, including surgical and physical therapy suites. A 46-station Computer Laboratory adjacent
to the library, offers upgraded computer Notable facilities include the following: equipment and a quiet study area for users, The Abe and Franchi Lavi Clinical Skills along with the convenience of immediate Education Center, a facility critical to fully proximity to the Library. For those wishing integrated instruction in pre-clinical and to study in groups, there is a separate group clinical skills. Its four main components are study space also with computer terminals. a Classroom, Patient Exam Room’s, Mock Operating Room, and an Audiovisual Room Two newly upgraded amphitheater-style with a large flat-screen monitor. lecture halls, with seating for 144 and 126 respectively, are each equipped with a The Bruce J. Frankel Conference Center, a universal projector with large, high- multi-use facility with flexible seating for definition overhead monitors and wireless 50. Its uses include meetings, lectures, and data transmission. Web-based live receptions, among others. It includes a streaming video of lecture courses enables state-of-the-art electronic podium, a students to access digitally recorded universal projector with a large flat-screen lectures from any location. monitor, and it is equipped for buffet food and beverage service. The Cafeteria serves Kosher breakfast and lunch, ranging from snacks and sandwiches The Sidney Druskin Memorial Library to hot meals, with daily specials, including comprises over 3,000 square feet, in vegetarian selections. addition to a related 46-station computer lab. It offers a continually expanding The Fitness and Recreation Center is an collection of online books and journals as exercise/recreation facility, equipped with well as those in print. The print journal Nautilus equipment, treadmill, aerobics collection includes access to over 200 equipment, free weights, ping pong and
17 more. It is open to students, faculty and It is designed to serve the needs of clinical staff. education and patient care.
The Pedinol® Lounge, is a multi-use facility, which includes a large flat-screen Campus clinical facilities include extensive TV with cable, lounge chairs and couches. examination and treatment rooms, a It is often used by students for study and surgery suite, imaging including a brand- relaxation. new digital X-ray, a gait laboratory, medical records, administrative and clinical faculty The Information Services and Operations offices. Here, students complete more than Center is the campus’s hub for computer, 2,000 hours of clinical rotations in Podiatric phone and technology services, as well as Medicine, Podiatric Pediatrics and facility-based concerns and facility Orthopedics, Radiology and Surgery (an upgrades for the entire College community. experience further broadened via clerkships Its services include the institution’s website, at several affiliate institutions in the New graphic design, printing, multimedia and York City area). related training. Seniors complete four elective externships The Foot Center of New York (FCNY), the at over 150 affiliated hospitals, nationally College’s primary service affiliate. and internationally, where externship directors are NYCPM adjunct faculty members.
18 Admission to the College Dean for Student Services and Enrollment Management Lisa K. Lee, M.A. Director of Enrollment Management Steebo Varghese, M.B.A. Assistant Director of Enrollment Management Shakir Patterson, B.S. Assistant Director of Enrollment Management Garrisha Goodman, M.B.A. Coordinator of Student Services and Enrollment Management Courtney Cadle, B.A.
General Admission Policies
The New York College of Podiatric semester hours (135 quarter hours) Medicine seeks to recruit and select highly of undergraduate study, including motivated students who are qualified to one academic year of each of the enter into the study of podiatric medicine following prerequisite courses, with by virtue of prior academic achievement, no grade lower than C-: and evidence of aptitude to pursue a health profession and more specifically of the • Biology (lecture & lab) desire to study podiatric medicine. • General Chemistry (lecture & Moreover, we seek students whose attitudes lab) and motivation are consistent with • Organic Chemistry (lecture & dedication of one’s life to the service of lab) humanity. Selection for admission is made • Physics (lecture & lab) without regard to race, creed, gender, • English sexual orientation, religion, color, handicap, age or national origin. The profile of the average incoming first year student includes a cumulative GPA of Admission Requirements 3.4 GPA, a science GPA of 3.0 and an In addition to appropriate general overall MCAT score of 496. To be most education, candidates for admission must competitive, you should possess a science also have completed specific prerequisite and overall GPA over 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. It is course work, which enables students to recommended that candidates with less understand and apply the scientific than a 2.75 grade point average consult the concepts and skills with which a modern Office of Enrollment Management prior to Doctor of Podiatric Medicine must work. applying. The most satisfactory pre-professional 2. All candidates must have taken the preparation is completion of a baccalaureate Medical College Admission Test degree from an accredited college. The (MCAT) during the year that they Admissions Committee has no preference are applying or within the prior as to the major field of undergraduate three years and have achieved study. competitive scores.
Specific Admission Requirements for All 3. All candidates must have obtained Candidates: three letters of recommendation or a 1. All candidates for admission must pre-health committee evaluation. have completed a minimum of 90
19 4. All candidates must be able to Eligibility for transfer credit is based strictly speak, write and comprehend on course equivalency determined by English. Those from non-English NYCPM and may or may not result in speaking countries must eligibility for any advanced standing demonstrate these abilities as (placement beyond first semester). Any described below. possible advanced standing is determined 5. All candidates must meet certain on a case-by-case basis depending upon the professional and technical transferable credit presented and the time of standards, which include physical, transfer. Prospective transfer students intellectual and behavioral attributes should contact NYCPM well in advance for essential to successful completion of assistance in determining the best point in the course of study and to successful their current program at which to seek pursuit of the profession of transfer. podiatric medicine. To be considered for admission to third year, with transfer credit for the first two years of study, students must: Academic Pre-professional Requirements 1. Have met the standards listed for International Students above. Academic pre-professional requirements for 2. Have completed the equivalent of international students are equivalent to the full first two years of the DPM those for American students, taking into program as given at NYCPM, with a account the differences among higher B (3.0) average. Additional education systems in various countries. information such as course syllabi Equivalency is determined via evaluation may be required in order to by World Education Services or another determine equivalency. Qualifying acceptable agency, and certified translation examinations may be required to of credentials not originally in English. confirm the necessary competencies. All determinations of advanced Requirements for Transfer Students from standing are made on a case-by-case U.S. Podiatric or Medical Schools basis. To be considered for any transfer credit for Transfer students admitted are subject to all course work (didactic or clinical clerkships) academic standards for the class into which completed within the last five years at other they are admitted. Those admitted to third U.S. podiatric or medical schools, applicants year must pass Part I of the NBPME must: 1. Meet the pre-professional admission (National Board) Examination as well as the standards that apply to applicants to comprehensive clinical assessment to the first year class and present a qualify for promotion to senior year. letter of good standing from the Dean, if currently enrolled, or Requirements for International Medical verification (from Dean or Registrar) School Graduates Seeking Advanced of eligibility to continue studies at Standing the time of withdrawal. Applicants who have earned a degree from 2. Have completed all prior a World Health Organization (WHO)- professional school (podiatric or recognized international medical school and medical school) study with a GPA of passed the USMLE Step I within the past 3.0 or higher. three years are eligible to be considered for
20 advanced standing (placement ahead in the admission that are required of applicants to program) at NYCPM, and must request the first year class. If accepted, any transfer consideration for advanced standing at the credit awarded will be determined by the time of application. Once eligibility has appropriate Dean in consultation with the been established, the applicant will be Admissions Committee. Additional reviewed for consideration for advanced material such as course syllabi may be standing by the Admissions Committee on requested to determine eligibility for a case-by-case basis. Please note additional transfer credit. application procedures.
Note: All students granted advanced Non-discriminatory Policy on standing, whether transfers or international Accommodations for Students with medical school graduates must attend a Disabilities minimum of the final two years of full-time Applicants are not asked about disabilities study at NYCPM in order to satisfy requiring accommodations prior to requirements for the D.P.M. degree. selection, in order that such disabilities remain unknown to the Admissions Requirements for Transfer Credit for Committee. The College’s policy of non- Applicants who have earned a Doctoral discrimination does not contradict the Degree existence of professional and technical To be considered for transfer credit for standards (an example would be blindness courses completed with a grade of B or — a podiatric student must have sufficient higher, applicants holding a doctoral degree visual acuity to observe anatomical detail, in a discipline corresponding to specific read X-rays and perform surgical subject matter in the NYCPM curriculum procedures). must meet the same standards for
21 Application Procedures
Note: NYCPM participates in the 4. Request three signed letters of centralized processing service of the recommendation or pre-health American Association of Colleges of committee evaluation that can be Podiatric Medicine Application Service uploaded to AACPMAS’s letter portal, (AACPMAS). Letters by Liaison. Letters of recommendation can be submitted via All applicants for admission must do the Interfolio, VirtualEvals or mail to the following: portal. 1. Complete and submit an application 5. Upon invitation, attend an admissions online at www.e-aacpmas.org. interview. The interview visit will also 2. Submit official transcripts of all prior serve as an opportunity to tour the postsecondary study directly from the College and Clinic and meet with registrar(s) of the institution(s) attended faculty and students. to AACPMAS. Any course work still in 6. The application deadline for fall progress at the time of application will admission is June 30. require an additional transcript when All hard copy materials must be submitted completed, to be forwarded to NYCPM. to the following address: 3. Release official score reports from the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) to AACPMAS.
New York College of Podiatric Medicine Office of Enrollment Management 53 East 124th Street New York, NY 10035-1940
Applicants for January Admission questions at 800.526.6966/212.410.8098 or via e-mail at [email protected]. All applicants for the January admission
(see “January Entering Class” below) must All application materials become part of the do the following: permanent records of NYCPM and will not 1. Follow instructions #1 through #5 be returned. Access to this material is above. limited under the Family Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 as amended (FERPA). 2. It is advisable to apply before Applicants who are not accepted, or who November 15 to ensure fullest are accepted and do not enroll, do not have consideration for admission and access to their application files. Materials scholarship review. received as part of the application process Applicants are welcome to contact the will not be duplicated for personal use by Office of Enrollment Management with any the applicant or forwarded to a third party.
22 Materials received from applicants who do admitted, or are admitted but do not enroll not complete their application, are not are held for one year before being destroyed. Additional Procedures for International Students International applicants must additionally (2) demonstrate the ability to read, write, (1) submit certified course-by-course speak and understand English. evaluation of foreign credentials by World Nonimmigrant applicants must also submit Education Services or other acceptable proof of eligible immigration status and agency (as well as English translation of financial ability as described under “Legal credentials if not originally in English), and Requirements for Enrollment.”
Additional Procedures for Transfer Applicants from U.S. Podiatric or Medical Schools
Transfer Applicants from U.S. podiatric or Transfer students are provided with a medical schools must program of courses at NYCPM which, in combination with transfer credits granted, 1. Complete and submit the NYCPM will complete all NYCPM requirements for Application for Transfer/Advanced the D.P.M. degree. Standing, together with the $100.00 application fee (download the form at NOTE www.nycpm.edu); • Only credit for coursework, not grades, 2. Mail the application and all supporting will be posted to the NYCPM transcript, documents to the address on the regardless of the school attended prior preceding page; to enrollment at NYCPM. 3. Supply a Dean's Letter of satisfactory • All students granted advanced standing, standing from the professional school whether transfers or international previously attended. medical school graduates must attend a minimum of the final two years of full-
time study at NYCPM in order to satisfy Those accepted for transfer will be evaluated relative to the NYCPM the requirements for the D.P.M. degree. Curriculum and informed of the results prior to matriculation.
Additional Procedures for Applicants from International Medical Schools Seeking Advanced Standing
Graduates of World Health Organization submit a written request for advanced (WHO)-recognized international medical standing at the time of application, (2) schools, who have passed the USMLE Step I supply official USMLE score reports, (3) within the past three years, and are seeking supply a certified course-by-course admission to advanced standing, must (1) evaluation of the applicant's higher
23 educational record including evaluation of have not taken or passed USMLE Step 1 as medical and other specialty degrees, and (4) well as applicants who attended but did not submit evidence of satisfactory immigration earn a degree from an international medical status and financial resources. Such school are only eligible to apply to enter requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case NYCPM as first year students. basis. Applicants who have earned a degree from an international medical school but who
January Entering Class
NYCPM offers the opportunity for prorated for the January entering class to applicants to be considered for a January remain consistent with those for all other entering class. At present, those students full-time students. entering in January will enroll in a 4½-year program starting with a decelerated 2½- Students admitted to the January entering year pre-clinical program. The second term class are subject to academic standards for students in this program occurs during appropriate to the course load for each the summer following the January term, term, as detailed in the Student Handbook. and in their third term they join a Successful compliance with these standards September entering class but with a is necessary in order to remain in the modified schedule extending into January program. sophomore year. Tuition and fees are
Selection of Students It is the responsibility of the Admissions Misrepresentation in, or omission of, Committee to select candidates for podiatric credentials and information submitted in medical education. The Admissions the application process, will constitute Committee is composed of representative grounds for rejection for admission, or, if members of the pre-clinical and clinical discovered after admission, grounds for faculty and the Dean of Enrollment rescission of admission retroactive to the Management. Because there are far more date of admission. Examples of information applicants than openings, admission is misrepresented or omitted would include selective and interview is by invitation only. criminal convictions, incomplete academic Admission decisions are based on prior history (or altered records), or failure to academic achievement, community and meet professional and technical standards. leadership activities, letters of reference and personal interview.
24 Dual-Degree D.P.M.-M.P.H. Program under Agreement with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS)
The Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) Candidates for the Dual Degree Program Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at must meet all eligibility requirements for Mount Sinai (ISMMS) is a course of study both degree programs. Applicants to the designed to prepare students to promote Dual-Degree program must submit a Letter health, prevent disease and protect the of Intent, indicating their interest in being environment. Classes are conveniently considered for the Dual-Degree program, to offered in the evening, after 4 pm, Monday the Dean of Student Services and through Thursday. The D.P.M. Program at Enrollment Management at NYCPM prior the New York College of Podiatric Medicine to submitting an application to (ISMMS). (NYCPM) prepares students to become Once approved, they will be provided with Doctors of Podiatric Medicine, specializing the link to the application for the M.P.H. in the medical care of the lower extremity program. A link to the online application including the treatment of diseases that will be sent by the NYCPM Office of affect the lower extremity. It is a full-time Enrollment Management, after that office day program offered weekdays generally has evaluated the candidate’s credentials ending by 4 pm. and established his/her eligibility for the M.P.H. program. NYCPM will forward a The D.P.M. /M.P.H. Dual-Degree program letter of support to (ISMMS) Admissions prepares students to simultaneously Office as well as all the supporting achieve the goals of both programs, documents including verified MCAT scores, completing both degrees in as little as four transcripts, and letters of recommendation. or five years.
Additional Requirements for Legal Requirements for Enrollment Enrollment at NYCPM NYCPM welcomes applications from non- U.S. citizens of any legal immigration Background Check status, and does not discriminate on the All entering students must have completed basis of citizenship or nationality. All a criminal background check as requested applicants who are not U.S. citizens must via Castle Branch. A steadily increasing state in the application for admission, and number of hospital residencies and state subsequently document, their immigration licensing boards require such a check as a status at the time of application, such as condition for admission to a residency or permanent resident, nonimmigrant alien, for licensure to practice podiatric medicine. etc. Applicants declaring permanent This is fast becoming a nationwide residency who are accepted for admission standard; it would be a disservice, and a will be asked to supply a photocopy of their failure to comply with NYCPM’s mission, unexpired permanent resident card (green to admit students and allow them to make card). Nonresident applicants who are the considerable investment toward a career accepted for admission will be required to as licensed submit a Declaration of Finances and other Podiatrists, if residency and licensure were information necessary to enable the unlikely to be attained. Registrar to generate an I-20 (application for student visa) and transmit it to the student.
25 All applicants are reminded that NYCPM certifying that the funds will be made cannot guarantee, to any graduate of the available to cover the student’s college DPM program, placement in a graduate expenses. The amount of funds training program. documented must equal or exceed the 1. Requirements for nonimmigrant College’s estimated budget for the first international students: International full year of study, including tuition, students who are not Permanent fees, books, equipment, transportation, Residents will need a nonimmigrant room and board, and personal expenses. student visa (F-1 or J-1). They must 2. Health-related requirements: The submit evidence of current immigration following are required of all enrolled status immediately upon application, students. State law (Public Health Law, and, if accepted for admission, a ss. 2165, 2167) requires that new Certification of Finances including students not be permitted to attend documentary proof of sufficient classes beyond 30 days unless they are financial support to cover direct costs of in compliance with the first three of studying at NYCPM as well as all living these. All health related documents expenses. The College will supply a must be received and maintained via Certification of Finances form and full Castle Branch. Pertinent materials are instructions to each nonimmigrant conveyed to accepted students by the student accepted for admission. Office of Enrollment Management prior Nonimmigrant students are advised to to matriculation. apply several months prior to their desired entry date and also be prepared 1. Annual physical examination to submit the required financial including tuberculosis skin test information promptly if accepted for (PPD) and demonstrated admission. The College cannot issue an immunizations against rubeola I-20 or DS-2019 (application for F-1 or J- (measles), mumps, rubella, and 1 Visa) until required documentation is varicella through positive antibody received. Effective September 1, 2004, titers. If PPD result is positive or applicants for F or J Visas must pay a fee BCG vaccine received, student must of $160 as part of the Visa application provide documentation of a chest x- process. It may be paid by U.S. bank ray or a negative result on a TB check or money order, submitted with Quantiferon® Gold Test; form I-901, or online, completing the Acknowledgement of information same form and using a credit card for 2. about meningococcal infection and payment. declaration as to whether to obtain The proof of financial support immunization or not; includes either a current bank statement for an account in the applicant’s name 3. Student health Insurance or a letter from the sponsor’s bank, (acceptance, upgrade or waiver). bearing official signature and seal, These requirements apply to all identifying the amount of funds postsecondary students in New York State. available in U.S. dollars, plus a notarized letter from the sponsor
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Professional and Technical Standards for Enrollment
All students are expected to meet certain secondary school in a non-English speaking technical standards for advancement country must demonstrate English through the curriculum and graduation of proficiency via satisfactory performance on the D.P.M. degree. These reflect a concern the Test of English as a Foreign Language for the safety of the students and graduates (TOEFL). Such applicants should call 1-800- as well as the patients they treat. The New GO TOEFL or 1-609-463-6335 to schedule York College of Podiatric Medicine will not this exam. An official score report must be discriminate against physically challenged submitted to the Office of Enrollment individuals who meet the current published Management at the time of application. technical standards. Motor Function Observation Students should have sufficient motor Students must have sufficient vision to be function to execute movements reasonably able to observe demonstrations, required to perform all laboratory course experiments and laboratory exercises in the requirements and to provide general Pre-Clinical Sciences and the performance podiatric care and emergency treatment to of tasks during clinical rotations. They patients. must be able to observe a patient accurately Examples of common daily treatments at a distance and at close hand. They must include providing palliative care of foot be able to acquire information from written conditions, injecting medications such as documents and visualize information as anesthetics and anti-inflammatories, taking presented in images from paper, films, orthotic impressions, taking pedal slides or video. Such observation and radiographs, and assisting at foot and ankle information acquisition usually necessitates surgery. Examples of emergency treatment the functional use of visual, auditory and reasonably required of podiatrists are somatic sensation. cardiopulmonary resuscitation, administration of intravenous medication, Communication the application of pressure to stop bleeding, Students should be able to speak, hear and the opening of obstructed airways and the observe in order to elicit information, suturing of simple wounds. Such actions examine patients, describe changes in require the coordination of both gross and mood, activity and posture and perceive fine muscular movements, equilibrium and non-verbal communications. They must be functional use of the senses of touch and able to communicate effectively and vision. sensitively with patients. They must also be able to communicate effectively and Strength and Mobility efficiently in oral and written form with all Since podiatric medical treatment requires members of the health care team. sufficient upper extremity body strength Communication includes not only speech and mobility, it would be necessary to but also proficient reading and writing, in evaluate thoroughly candidates for English. Applicants who completed matriculation who are otherwise qualified
27 but who have significant strength and intellectual ability to learn, integrate, mobility disabilities. analyze and synthesize data.
Sensory Skills Behavioral and Social Attributes Podiatric medical treatment requires Students must possess the emotional health, enhanced ability in all sensory skills. stability and maturity required for full Candidates must have sufficient utilization of their intellectual abilities, the exteroceptive sense (i.e., touch) and exercise of good judgment, the prompt sufficient proprioceptive sense (position, completion of all responsibilities attendant pressure, movement) to carry out their to the diagnosis and care of patients, and didactic and clinical responsibilities. the development of mature, sensitive and effective relationships with patients and Thus, it is necessary to evaluate thoroughly other members of the health care team. candidates for matriculation who are Candidates and students must be able to otherwise qualified but who have tolerate physically taxing workloads and to significant tactile sensory or proprioceptive function effectively under stress. disabilities. This would include individuals Candidates and students must be capable of with significant previous burns, working in stressful, sometimes chaotic sensory/motor deficits, cicatrix formation environments with multiple distractions and limiting malformations of the upper and noise. They must be able to carry out extremities that prevent performance of their duties including, but not limited to, essential podiatric tasks, including chart reviewing, patient interviewing, fulfillment of student clinical requirements. patient examination, and chart writing within a reasonable period of time Visual Integration commensurate with their peers’ abilities. Consistent with the ability to assess They must be able to adapt to changing asymmetry, range of motion and tissue environments, varying personalities, texture changes, it is necessary to have display flexibility and learn to function in adequate visual capabilities for proper the face of the uncertainties inherent in the evaluation and treatment integration. clinical problems of many patients.
Intellectual, Conceptual, Integrative and Compassion, integrity, concern for others, Quantitative Abilities interpersonal skills, interest and motivation These abilities include measurement, are all personal qualities that will be calculation, reasoning, analysis and assessed during the admissions and synthesis. Problem solving, the critical skill educational process. demanded of physicians, requires all of these intellectual abilities. In addition, Intellectual, Conceptual, Integrative and candidates and students should be able to Quantitative Abilities to be involved in comprehend three-dimensional Invasive and Exposure-prone Procedures relationships and to understand the spatial Students must be qualified to be personally relationships of structures. Candidates and and actively involved in invasive and students must consistently, quickly and exposure-prone procedures, without being accurately be able to integrate all a danger to patients, other health information received by whatever senses professionals, and fellow students, while employed, and they must have the adhering to universal precautions, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control
28 and Prevention. Common procedures regarding immunizations, health screenings would include, but are not limited to, skin and health status of students as well as and nail debridement, skin and nail health care providers. Those who are excision, as well as invasive and exposure- required to participate in educational prone procedures such as soft tissue and programs at these sites must meet the osseous tissue surgical intervention. standards, policies and regulations of these facilities. Students unable to meet the Additional Considerations Regarding requirements of the external facilities must Professional and Technical Standards report this to the Dean's Office. The College The College shall endeavor to make will attempt to find alternative site reasonable accommodations within accommodation, if possible. budgetary and design-engineering constraints to facilitate the education of the No guarantee is expressly made or implied physically challenged student. The by the College that at alternate sites such candidate should be able to perform in a accommodation will be possible. The reasonably independent manner. A trained failure of a student to qualify for a required intermediary is not acceptable in that a clinical experience in the face of no available candidate's judgment may not be mediated accommodation on the part of the College by someone else's power of selection and may result in the student’s inability to observation. complete the curriculum and ineligibility to graduate from the college with the D.P.M. Technical Standards and Student degree. Responsibilities at External Facilities Many of the clinical experiences which Appropriate housing and transportation to students are required to complete are the College and to affiliated institutions are located in other health care facilities not solely the responsibility of the student. under the direct control of the College. The facilities have their own rules and policies
Admissions Test and Letters of Evaluation
All applicants except foreign medical Official MCAT score reports must be graduates who have taken the USMLE are submitted to AACPM. required to take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). In addition, all Applicants who have trained in applicants are required to submit either (1) international medical schools and have a Pre-Medical Committee Evaluation or (2) taken USMLE Step 1 or 2 and/or ECFMG three letters of recommendation, one of exams should submit their scores on these which should preferably be written by a examinations with their application. practicing Doctor of Podiatric Medicine.
Scholarships
A limited number of scholarships are The Admissions Committee reviews each awarded to selected incoming Freshmen. applicant’s file and awards scholarships
29 based on criteria set by the Admissions a number of scholarships awarded to Committee. Scholarships for incoming continuing students. These and the criteria students are disbursed as credit on the on which they are awarded are listed in the student’s account toward tuition and fees section on Academic Standards and and are distributed over the four years of Guidelines. the D.P.M. program. In addition, there are
Articulation Agreements
The New York College of Podiatric transfer credit from NYCPM's first year Medicine has entered into articulation curriculum in lieu of the student's senior agreements with a number of institutions year. The student thus receives his/her throughout the country. These agreements bachelor's degree and medical degree in 7 enable students who have maintained a years. Details of specific articulation cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher to enter programs are available from the Office of NYCPM as first-year students following Enrollment Management. Currently the their junior year in college. The institutions with 7-year articulation undergraduate institution then accepts programs are:
Adelphi University Garden City, NY 11530 Delaware Valley College Doylestown, PA 18901 Alice Lloyd College Pippa Passes, KY 41844 Dillard University New Orleans, LA 70122 Averett University Danville, VA 24541 Elmira College Elmira, NY 14901 Bloomfield College Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck, NJ 07666, and Madison, NJ 07940 Brooklyn College Brooklyn, NY 11210 Felician College Lodi, NJ 07644 Caldwell College Caldwell, NJ 07006 Ferrum College Ferrum, VA 24088 California State University Fresno, CA 93740 Grand Canyon University Phoenix, AZ 85017 City College of New York (CUNY) New York, NY 10031 Hastings College Hastings, NE 68902 Clarkson University Potsdam, NY 13699 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11549 College of Mt. Saint Vincent Riverdale, NY 10471 Iona College New Rochelle, NY 10801 College of St. Elizabeth Morristown, NJ 07960 John Jay College
30 New York, NY 10019 Salem International University Salem, WV 26426 Kean University Union, NJ 07083 Springfield College Springfield, MA 01109 Manhattan College Riverdale, NY 10471 St. Francis College Brooklyn, NY 11201 Marist College Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 St. John’s University Queens, NY 11439 Mass. College of Liberal Arts North Adams, MA 01247 St. Thomas Aquinas College Sparkill, NY 10976 Mount Saint Mary College Newburgh, NY 12550 SUNY-Old Westbury Neumann College Old Westbury, NY 11568 Aston, PA 19014 Touro College New Jersey City University New York, NY 10010 Jersey City, NJ 07305 University of Hartford New York City College of Technology West Hartford, CT 06117 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Washington & Jefferson College New York Medical College Washington, PA 15301 Valhalla, NY 10595 Yeshiva University Pace University New York, NY 10033 New York, NY 10038 Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518 Ramapo College of NJ Mahwah, NJ 07430
Richard Stockton College of NJ Pomona, NJ 08240 Roger Williams University Bristol, RI 02809 Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028
Sacred Heart University Fairfield, CT 06432
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Tuition and Fees
The New York College of Podiatric • Candidates accepted on or after July 1 Medicine is a private not-for-profit will be asked for an immediate reply institution chartered by New York State. and deposit. The College does not receive student capitation support from New York State. A For the January entering class, the timetable tuition and fee schedule is established for responses and deposits is as follows: annually by the College administration and • Candidates accepted through October approved by the Board of Trustees. 31 are required to respond and submit Students who fail to discharge their their tuition deposit within 30 days financial obligations to the College prior to following acceptance. each published registration period will have • Candidates accepted between a Bursar Hold placed on their accounts. November 1 and November 15 must Until such obligations are satisfied, students respond and submit their deposit within cannot register, obtain transcripts or other 14 days following acceptance. Registrar services, borrow library materials, use campus facilities, or graduate. The • Candidates accepted on or after College’s financial policies are detailed in November 15 will be asked for an the Student Handbook. immediate reply and deposit.
One hundred percent (100%) of the FULL-TIME ENROLLMENT remainder of first-semester tuition and fees, First Year – First Semester less credit for approved student loans and Candidates offered admission to NYCPM scholarship awards, is due the first day of are required to respond to the offer and the start of the first semester. After 10 submit a nonrefundable tuition deposit in business days from the start of the semester, the amount of $1,000 to confirm their intent students with outstanding account balances to enroll and to reserve their place in the will (unless circumstances are documented) entering class. The number of places in the be withdrawn from the College. freshman class is strictly limited, and accepted candidates who fail to confirm All Other Semesters their intent to enroll in a timely manner will The tuition & fees charges and approved be replaced. The timetable for responses loans and scholarship awards will be posted and tuition deposits for the September onto the student’s account 10 business days entering class is as follows before the commencement of classes. • Candidates accepted through March 31 Students will be able to view their account are required to respond and submit balances on JICS. Students will be notified their tuition deposit within 30 days when the information is made available for following acceptance. review on the JICS system. The full account • Candidates accepted between April 1 balance’s remittance is due the first day of and June 30 must respond and submit the start of each semester. Students with their deposit within 14 days following outstanding account balances will have a acceptance. Bursar Hold placed on their accounts after 10 business days from the start of each
32 semester and may be suspended. Until full use campus facilities, or graduate. The remittance is made, students cannot College’s financial policies are detailed in register, obtain transcripts or other Student Handbook. Registrar services, borrow library materials,
TUITION AND FEES, ACADEMIC YEAR 2021-2022 The following schedule of tuition and fees applies to all full-time students of the D.P.M. program, per semester, during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Tuition and Fees per Semester, Academic year 2020-2021
Item January* Freshman Freshman Sophomore Sophomore Junior Senior T1, T2, T3 Semester I Semester II Sem. III Sem. IV per Sem. per Sem. Tuition $10,656 $15,984 $15,984 $15,984 $15,984 $15,984 $15,984 Background Check Fee n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Student Assoc. Fee 115.00 172.50 172.50 172.50 172.50 172.50 172.50 Technology Fee 167.00 250.00 250.00 250.00 250.00 250.00 250.00 Ext. Hosp. Educ. Fee 400.00 600.00 600.00 600.00 600.00 600.00 600.00 Materials Fee 67.00 100.00 100.00 n/a n/a n/a n/a Protective Clothing Fee 50/0/0 n/a 50.00 50.00 n/a 25.00 n/a Graduation Fee n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 200.00 Semester Totals 17,106.50 17,156.50 17,056.50 17,006.50 17,031.50 17,206.50 Jan. Class T1 total 11,455.00
*January entering classes are charged pro-rated amounts over the full academic year (3 tuition periods) so as to pay the same total tuition and fees as September entering students of the same graduating classes.
2021-2022 INSURANCE AND NATIONAL BOARD FEES SCHEDULE Fee per sem., when applicable Senior Junior Soph. Freshman January Accident & Sickness Insurance $2,857.00/ $2,857.00/ $2,857.00/ $1,900.00 $2,780.00/ $2,780.00 $2,780.00 $2,780.00 /$2,780.00 $2,780.00 National Board Fee I n/a n/a n/a** n/a n/a National Board Fee II n/a** n/a n/a n/a n/a The Insurance fee (explained below) is collected only from those students who elect the coverage arranged by the College. **National Board fees are no longer collected by NYCPM, students must pay these fees directly to the testing agency.
LESS THAN FULL-TIME ENROLLMENT B) Eleven (11) credits/hours or less: $800 Students enrolled for less than a full load per credit hour. for any semester will be charged tuition and fees according to the following schedule: C) Fees are not prorated and will be assessed at full value as appropriate. A) Twelve (12) credits/hours or more:
Full tuition responsibility.
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REGISTRATION RELATED TO The External Hospital Education Fee is TUITION PAYMENT used to subsidize required fees charged by Students who fail to discharge their outside hospital affiliations, which enhance financial obligations to the College prior to the clinical education of the senior students. each published registration period will have This fee is billed across all four years in an a Bursar Hold placed on their account. effort to spread the cost and minimize the Until such obligations are satisfied, students financial impact to students. cannot register, obtain transcripts or other Registrar services, borrow library materials, The Materials Fee is charged only in the or graduate, nor can former students with freshman year to cover the costs associated unresolved financial obligations to the with preparation and duplication of study College, including certain student loans in and lab materials. default, obtain transcripts or other Registrar Protective Clothing and equipment is services. provided by the College for use in EXPLANATION OF FEES laboratories and certain clinical settings. Accident/Sickness Insurance is required Fees are charged for these services for the for all NYCPM students. To provide the semesters in which they are provided. best insurance coverage at the lowest cost, NYCPM has negotiated a group rate for the Retesting Fees: The fee for Retests is $50 student body. Please note that the per test (see Student Handbook). Accident/Sickness Insurance Fee will be waived if students can timely demonstrate TUITION REFUNDS equivalent coverage under family or private Students who officially withdraw (demonstrated medical insurance. Each year insurance by an official letter from the Dean), will receive fees are automatically added to each pro-rated refunds of tuition, according to the student’s account. It is the responsibility schedule listed in the table of tuition refunds. of the student to waive coverage if eligible Refunds are calculated based on tuition amounts (each year) by completing and signing the actually paid and remaining on account after the appropriate waiver form. return of Title IV funds as calculated under Government rules. Withdrawal during any The Technology Fee is used to help defray semester will result in forfeiture of any the costs of technological services to institutional scholarship award applied to that students, including computers, software, semester and contingent upon enrollment throughout the semester. Consequently the access to electronic library materials, virtual student shall be liable for the additional tuition. microscopy, web-based video capture of The request must be presented to the Bursar‘s classroom lectures, and other enhancements Office with a copy of the Dean‘s letter granting to instruction and evaluation. separation and showing the effective date thereof. The entire $345 Student Association Fee is Note: All tuition and fee payments are to be passed along to the Student Government. It made payable (via check or money order) to provides an operating budget for the New York College of Podiatric Medicine and Student Government and organizations as directed to the office of the Bursar. well as for college-wide activities they sponsor.
34 Allowing Veterans to Attend or Participate in Courses Pending VA Payment Background
Section 103 of Public Law (PL) 115-407, ‘Veterans Benefits and Transition Act of 2018,’ amends Title 38 US Code 3679 by adding a new subsection (e) that requires disapproval of courses of education, beginning August 1, 2019, at any educational institution that does not have a policy in place that will allow an individual to attend or participate in a course of education, pending VA payment, providing the individual submits a certificate of eligibility for entitlement to educational assistance under Chapter 31 or 33.
Pending Payment Compliance
In accordance with Title 38 US Code 3679(e), New York College of Podiatric Medicine (Main) adopts the following additional provisions for any students using U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Post-9/11 G.I. Bill® (Ch. 33) or Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment (Ch. 31) benefits, while payment to the institution is pending from VA. New York College of Podiatric Medicine (Main) will not:
• Prevent the student’s enrollment; • Assess a late penalty fee to the student; • Require the student to secure alternative or additional funding; • Deny the student access to any resources (access to classes, libraries, or other institutional facilities) available to other students who have satisfied their tuition and fee bills to the institution.
However, to qualify for this provision, such students may be required to: • Produce the VA Certificate of Eligibility (COE) by the first day of class; • Provide a written request to be certified; • Provide additional information needed to properly certify the enrollment as described in other institutional policies
GI Bill® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Schedule of Tuition Liability and Refund Eligibility upon Withdrawal from the College
SUMMER (202010)
FALL (202030) Before first day of semester 100% During add/drop 100% 1st week following add/drop 50% After 1st week following add/drop 0%
WINTER (202040) n/a
SPRING (202070) Before first day of semester 100% During add/drop 100% 1st week following add/drop 50% After 1st week following add/drop 0%
LATE SPRING (202080) n/a
35 Processing Fees, Office of Records and Registration Transcripts and other documents are issued Express Mail or other overnight delivery is subject to the following fees. They are available at an additional charge. normally transmitted via first class mail;
PROCESSING FEES, OFFICE OF RECORDS AND REGISTRATION, 2021-2022
ITEM FEE
Current Students Verification of Education $10.00 Official Transcript $5.00 per copy Unofficial Transcript No fee Unofficial Board Scores No Fee (Those requiring official scores must request scores directly from NBPME.)
Graduate/Former Students Official transcript $10.00 per copy State Board Application Processing $10.00 minimum* Duplicate Diploma $85.00 Clinical Evaluation No fee Dean’s Letter (Graduates) $10.00
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36 Financial Aid
New York College of Podiatric Medicine Students must meet Satisfactory Academic (NYCPM) is committed to helping students Progress (SAP) requirements at all times in afford the opportunity for a valuable order to receive and retain financial aid. education. In order for NYCPM to determine eligibility for its financial aid Because of the nature of federal, state and programs, all students (except international institutional guidelines affecting financial students) must complete the Free aid programs, the information contained in Application for Federal Student Aid this catalog is subject to change. For further (FAFSA) at information about available financial aid https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for- programs and whether you meet eligibility aid/fafsa. Financial aid is provided through requirements please contact: college, state, and federal funds for scholarships, grants, loans, and https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for- employment. Awards are designed to aid/fafsa - federal website for submitting recognize scholastic achievement, service, the Free Application for Federal Student and/or demonstrated need. The variety of Aid financial aid programs available allows many students to greatly reduce their https://studentaid.gov/ - federal website educational costs while attending NYCPM. for student and parent loan applications and information It is the student’s responsibility to request, complete, and submit all forms with https://www.nslds.ed.gov/nslds/nslds_S necessary documentation for all financial A/ - federal website for reviewing the aid programs, including scholarships, in a student’s financial aid history timely manner. Students who would have otherwise been eligible may not receive Financial Aid Self-Service & Student funding when they fail to timely submit Administrative Services HelpDesk documents. All financial aid programs are Financial aid is an enabling element in your subject to availability and funding levels. educational pursuit. To that end, NYCPM has implemented the TouroOne student Financial aid awards are not guaranteed portal. With this system, you can review and may be reduced or cancelled after being your financial aid awards in real-time, offered or disbursed to students. Financial accept or reject loan-based financial aid, aid awards are subject to all revisions in gain insight into what might be delaying federal, state and institutional policies, your financial aid, and much more. You can availability of funds, changes in enrollment, also register and pay your bill via the changes in housing status, as well as student portal. updates in FAFSA information, failure to meet minimum grade requirements, failure Visit https://touroone.touro.edu to complete the semester, and failure to timely submit all required documentation. As part of our Financial Aid Self-Service tool, our student services helpdesk aims to assist all students in the Touro College and
37 University System with their student all types of financial aid, students should services questions. file their FAFSA applications as soon as possible after October 1st of each year. Visit help.touro.edu • Requirements for Title IV (Federal) Federal Application Requirements and Financial Aid Procedures In order to qualify for federal financial aid, All students who wish to apply for financial students: aid must complete a Free Application for • Must be accepted into one of Federal Student Aid (FAFSA or a Renewal NYCPM’s degree granting programs FAFSA) and submit it to the U.S. and must be fully matriculated in Department of Education (ED) once for each that program. academic year. The FAFSA can be • Must have a high school diploma or completed online at its recognized equivalent, such as a https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for- general educational development or aid/fafsa. Applications become available on GEDN certificate or have completed October 1 for the upcoming school year that home schooling at the secondary begins with the following summer semester. level as defined by state law. For example, for the 2019-2020 academic • Must be making satisfactory year (which includes the summer 2019, fall academic progress toward their 2019 and spring 2020 semesters) the FAFSA degree. was available on October 1, 2018. • Must be enrolled at least half time to Financial aid funding is designed to help receive aid from the Stafford and bridge the gap between the cost of PLUS loan programs. attending a college and the student’s (and • Must not have been convicted of parent’s, when applicable) available possession or sale of illegal drugs for resources. Most awards are determined by an offense that occurred while need. Please note, financial need has no receiving federal financial aid (see bearing on admission decisions. Touro Question 23 on the FAFSA for administers federal, state, institutional and additional eligibility information). local sources of aid, as detailed in the • Incarcerated students are not eligible following pages. for federal student loans but are Students who wish to apply for eligible for Federal Work Study and scholarships, grants, work-study and/or Federal Supplemental Educational parent and student loans are required to Opportunity Grants. They are also complete the FAFSA. The college codes to eligible for Pell Grants if not be used on the FAFSA for NYCPM is listed incarcerated in a federal or state below. penal institution. • Must not be in default on a prior College federal student or parent loan that Code has not been rehabilitated. Contact New York College of Podiatric G02749 the Office of Financial for loan Medicine rehabilitation information. • Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent The FAFSA is available online at resident or other eligible non-citizen. https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for- • Must have a valid Social Security aid/fafsa. For maximum consideration for Number.
38 • Male students are required to be At times students submit documents and registered with Selective Service to information that contradicts that already be eligible for federal financial aid provided to NYCPM. When contradictory funds. (A male student is not information is submitted, the Office of required to register if he is below the Financial Aid is required by law to resolve age of 18, or was born before the conflict. Resolution of contradictory January 1, 1960.) information typically requires that the • With the exception of unsubsidized student submit additional documents, Stafford Loans and PLUS Loans, all which lengthens the verification process. other federal student aid requires students to demonstrate financial As part of the federal Verification process, need. NYCPM may also request proof of High School Completion (or its recognized Federal Verification Requirements: equivalent), proof of the receipt of When the FAFSA is filed, the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance government reviews the data submitted and Program benefits (SNAP), and/or proof of selects certain applications for a process child support payments. Students may also called Verification. Generally, be requested to appear in person and approximately thirty percent of FAFSA are provide government issued photo selected for verification. The verification identification and sign a Statement of process helps the federal government to Educational Purpose. ensure that students’ information is accurate and that they receive all funds for The NYCPM Office of Financial Aid will which they qualify. If a student’s review the information on the FAFSA and application is selected, the student, his or make required corrections where necessary. her spouse and/or parents must submit This process may change a student’s documents that support the information financial aid eligibility. Students will be supplied on the FAFSA to the NYCPM’s notified if corrections result in a change in Office of Financial Aid. This usually eligibility. includes copies of the appropriate year’s IRS Tax Transcripts, a Verification Students are advised as to due dates for Worksheet (supplied by NYCPM) and other submission of their documents and supporting documentation as required. information in individual communications about verification. Students (and parents, if In its review of financial aid files NYCPM applicable) who fail or refuse to complete also selects students for verification. verification are ineligible for financial aid, Students who are selected for institutional including loans. verification are subject to the same rules as those who were selected by the federal Requirements for Determination of government. Independent Student Status for Financial Aid Usually gradate students are only required To be considered an independent student to complete verification if they are selected for any federal (and some state) financial and plan to participate in the Federal Work- aid programs, students must meet one of Study Program. the following criteria: A. Age 24 or older as of Dec. 31 of the award year
39 B. For students under 24, one of the Tuition Payment Plans following criteria must be met: Tuition payment plans are available. Please • Orphan, foster child, or ward of the direct all inquiries to the Office of the court at age 13 or older Bursar. • Veteran or currently engaged in active duty in the U.S. armed forces Federal Work-Study: for purposes other than basic training Federal Work-Study (FWS) Program: • Have legal dependents other than a NYCPM participates in the federally funded spouse for whom he/she provides Federal Work-Study (FWS) Program. The more than 50 percent financial FWS Program provides both on- and off- support campus jobs to eligible undergraduate and • Enrolled in a graduate or graduate students who wish to earn money professional program to help cover their educational expenses. • Married student (at the time the Students who work on campus are FAFSA is signed) employed by NYCPM. Students who • Classified by the Office of Financial receive off-campus placements will usually Aid as independent because of other be employed by a private non-profit unusual circumstances that have organization or a local, state or federal been fully documented and are public agency. The work performed must consistent with federal regulations be in the public interest. If the off-campus • Have had a legal guardian as job is with a private-sector employer, then determined by a state court the job should be related to the student’s • An unaccompanied youth who is course of study. determined to be homeless, or at risk of being homeless, by a school Participation in the FWS program is district, shelter director, or the U.S. determined by student eligibility, need, Department of Housing and Urban available funding and job availability. Development NYCPM is responsible for selecting • Emancipated minor as determined recipients and determining award amounts. by a court in his/her state of legal The FWS hourly wage is at least the residence minimum wage. Students are currently permitted to work up to 20 hours per week NYCPM reserves the right to revise its when school is in session and up to 30 hours financial aid programs. All programs per week when school is not in session. are subject to change due to modifications in government or institutional policies. Interested students should complete the Additional criteria and information may be Free Application for Federal Student Aid obtained from the Office of Financial Aid. (FAFSA) at Students are responsible for reading the https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for- Financial Aid Terms & Conditions before aid/fafsa and indicate a desire to participate deciding to accept or reject their financial in the Federal Work Study Program on the aid. View the disclosures within your FAFSA application. The Office of Financial account in the TouroOne Portal. Aid determines the student’s eligibility based on demonstrated financial need and availability of FWS funds. Eligible students who would like to participate in the FWS
40 Program must accept the offer of assistance Loans: and contact the Office of Financial Aid. If a student fails to contact the Office of Federal Direct Stafford Loans Financial Aid, there is a risk that the FWS The William D. Ford Federal Direct Stafford award may be cancelled. Funds are limited Student Loan Program is sponsored by the and there is usually a waiting list of U.S. Department of Education (ED), offers students who would like to obtain low interest rates with a variety of positions. repayment terms. The loan is not credit based and only requires that student’s meet Please be aware that the amount of FWS specific eligibility requirements. All indicated in the student’s portal is not students must file a FAFSA in order for the deducted from the student’s tuition bill, but Office of Financial Aid to determine rather reflects the amount of money eligibility for a Federal Direct Stafford Loan. available for the student to earn under the Depending on enrollment status, FAFSA program. It is the student’s responsibility to results, Cost of Attendance and other obtain a job through the Office of Financial factors, an amount and type (Subsidized or Aid. Renewal is dependent upon continued Unsubsidized) of Federal Direct Stafford demonstration of financial need, availability Loan will be awarded to eligible students. of federal funds and maintenance of the The federal government is the lender for minimum academic standards established student or parent loans received through by the U.S. Department of Education and the Federal Direct Stafford Loan Program. NYCPM. Students are required to file the FAFSA and indicate a desire to participate As a result of regulatory changes affecting each year for continued determination of loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 2012 eligibility. through July 1, 2014, the federal government has eliminated the grace period In order to begin working in the FWS interest subsidy on Federal Direct Subsidized program students must complete and Stafford loans (the period immediately submit various documents and information. following graduation, withdrawal or less The documents and information must be than half-time attendance and prior to the reviewed and approved by the Office of repayment start date). The federal financial aid and other NYCPM government will continue to pay interest departments. Students who complete hours that accrues on the Direct Subsidized before being officially approved to Stafford Loan during in-school and other participate in the FWS program will not eligible deferment periods. have been added to the payroll system and any hours will be considered to have been The federal government does not pay volunteered. Students cannot be interest on Direct Unsubsidized Stafford retroactively paid for any hours they Loans at any time. Students have the option completed before their eligibility to work to pay interest on the unsubsidized portion was established. Until students have of a Direct Stafford loan while in school, or received official approval (as detailed in during other eligible periods of deferment FWS documents and instructions) from or let interest accrue until repayment NYCPM to begin working they cannot and begins. Deferred interest payments on will not be paid for any hours they might Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loans will be voluntarily complete. added to the principal loan amount and capitalized by the lender (meaning accrued
41 interest will be added to the principal Loan amounts will be disbursed in multiple amount borrowed at repayment). payments sent to the school and made co- payable to the student and to NYCPM. Applicants must be enrolled at least half- Borrowers are given a six-month grace time to be eligible for a Federal Direct period after they graduate, leave school or Stafford Loan and to maintain eligibility for drop below half time. Subsidized loan in-school deferments (minimum six credits borrowers do not have to pay principal or per semester, with all credits applicable to interest during that period (unless they the degree program of study). previously used their grace period). Subsidized Federal Direct Stafford Loan Unsubsidized loan borrowers will be Undergraduate students who borrow a responsible for the interest during the six need-based Federal Subsidized Stafford months grace period. Borrowers will be Loan benefit from the federal government notified of the date repayment begins but paying the interest while they are in school are responsible for beginning repayment on or in deferment. These loans are called time regardless of whether they receive Subsidized Federal Stafford Loans because notification. the government subsidizes (or pays) the The following chart describes annual and interest on these loans until the student’s aggregate maximum eligibility for the repayment begins. Federal Direct Stafford Loan Program, As of the 2012-2013 academic year, based on dependency status and grade graduate students are no longer eligible to level. receive Federal Direct Subsidized Stafford Loans.
Unsubsidized Federal Direct Stafford Loan Both undergraduate and graduate students may qualify for Unsubsidized Federal Stafford loans. The federal government does not pay interest on students’ behalf for these loans. Students are responsible for the interest that accrues on the loan during their period of enrollment, during the grace period, and during periods of repayment authorized for deferment. There are two ways to pay interest during these periods: 1. The students may make monthly or quarterly payments to their lender. 2. The student and lender may agree to add the interest to the principal of the loan, but no more often than quarterly (this is called capitalization). If the student does not make interest payments on schedule while in school or authorized periods of deferment, the interest will be capitalized.
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Annual and Aggregate Federal Direct Stafford Loan Limits
Dependent Undergraduate
Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Aggregate Limit Stafford (Subsidized / $3,500 $4,500 $5,500 $5,500 $23,000 Unsubsidized) Additional Unsubsidized $2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $8,000 Stafford Total Stafford $5,500 $6,500 $7,500 $7,500 $31,000
Independent Undergraduate/Dependent Undergraduate with PLUS Denial
Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Aggregate Limit Stafford (Subsidized / $3,500 $4,500 $5,500 $5,500 $23,000 Unsubsidized) Additional Unsubsidized $6,000 $6,000 $7,000 $7,000 $34,500 Stafford Total Stafford $9,500 $10,500 $12,500 $12,500 $57,500
Graduate Graduate Aggregate Limit Limit Unsubsidized $20,500* $138,500 Stafford
*Ineligible for Subsidized Stafford Loans first disbursed on or after July 12, 2012
Regulations also require the Office of Through the possible combination of Financial Aid to offer financial aid based on Subsidized and Unsubsidized Direct the results of the needs analysis from the Stafford Loans, every student meeting all FAFSA (calculated by the federal academic and eligibility requirements government) and to perform an eligibility should be able to participate in the Federal file review for every student applying for Direct Stafford Loan Program. Information the Federal Direct Stafford Loan. The Office about the William D. Ford Direct Loan of Financial Aid must review each Program can be found at NYCPM Office of application and will recommend an amount Financial Aid and at according to the number of credits https://studentaid.gov/ attempted, the number of credits completed, the grade level, the cost of attendance, the outside resources available to each student and the expected family
43 contribution (as derived from the FAFSA). were variable. Federal Direct Loan interest Loan repayment will not be required while rates change from year to year (in July) and the student maintains at least half-time may also change specifically for one type or attendance (minimum six credits per the other; Subsidized or Unsubsidized, semester, with all credits applicable to the Graduate or PLUS. Students who received degree program of study). Repayment of loans prior to the aforementioned dates and principal and interest begins six months who still have balances outstanding on after the student leaves school or drops those loans will continue with the interest below half-time attendance. rate rules in effect at the time of their original loans. Borrowers will be charged an Effective for Federal Direct Stafford Loans origination fee also. The Origination Fee first disbursed on or after July 1, 2006, the represents the lenders (the federal interest rate is fixed. Prior to this date, government) fee for making the loan. Federal Direct Stafford Loan interest rates
Below is a table of current interest rates (as of July 1, 2020) and origination fees, by loan type:
Origination Fee Interest Rate Undergraduate Subsidized 1.057% 2.75% Stafford Undergraduate Unsubsidized 1.057% 2.75% Stafford Graduate Unsubsidized Stafford 1.057% 4.30% Parent PLUS 4.228% 5.30% Graduate PLUS 4.228% 5.30%
Public Law 112-141 also includes a new limit on eligibility for Direct Subsidized Stafford Loans for new borrowers on or Federal Direct PLUS Loan Program after July 1, 2013. On or after July 1, 2013 a borrower will not be eligible for new Direct The Federal Direct PLUS Loan is an Subsidized Stafford Loans if the period unsubsidized loan for the parents of during which the borrower has received dependent students or for such loans exceeds 150 percent of the graduate/professional students. PLUS published length of the borrower's Loans help pay for education expenses up educational program. The law also provides to the cost of attendance minus all other that a borrower reaching the 150 percent financial assistance. The application process limit becomes ineligible for interest subsidy includes a credit approval requirement and benefits on all Direct Subsidized Stafford interest is charged during all periods, Loans first disbursed to that borrower on or including eligible periods of deferment. after July 1, 2013. Creditworthy borrowers (Graduate Information about the William D. Ford students or the parents of Dependent Federal Direct Loan Program can be found students) may borrow up to the full Cost of at https://studentaid.gov/ or by contacting Attendance (COA) minus any other aid the Office of Financial Aid. received by the student. Repayment begins
44 60 days after the last disbursement is made academic year cannot exceed the student’s and can be deferred by contacting your loan Cost of Attendance (COA) less all other servicer to request a deferment. Direct financial aid received. To apply for the PLUS Loans can be deferred while the PLUS loan the borrower must sign a Master parent borrower or child, or graduate Promissory Note (MPN) agreeing to repay student is enrolled at least half-time and for the loan. Repayment must begin sixty days an additional six months after the child or after the loan is disbursed. Students may graduate student ceases to be enrolled at apply for deferments by contacting their least half-time. If the Direct PLUS Loan is lending institution. deferred, interest will accrue on the loan during the deferment. You may choose to Students and parents should note that NYCPM pay the accrued interest or allow the can refuse to certify a loan application or can interest to capitalize when the deferment certify a loan for the amount less than the period ends. Your loan servicer will notify students’ parents would be eligible for, if the you when your first payment is due. institution documents its reason for the action Information about the William D. Ford and informs the parents of the reason in writing. Federal Direct Loan Program can be found NYCPM’s decision in such cases is final and at https://studentaid.gov/ cannot be appealed to the U.S. Department of Education. Previous PLUS loan borrowing will be governed by rate rules in effect at the time For detailed information regarding the of borrowing. There is an origination fee rights and responsibilities of a borrower, that will be deducted from the principal deferments, or cancellations please visit amount borrowed. When denied, applicants https://studentaid.gov or consult with a may reapply with a creditworthy endorser. financial aid administrator. Alternatively, students whose parents have been denied the Direct PLUS loan (based on All students are required to complete an credit), may apply for an additional $4,000 Entrance Interview prior to receiving (first-year and second-year students) or Federal Direct Loans. Students who borrow are required to complete an Exit $5,000 (third-year students and beyond) Interview when they graduate, cease Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan enrollment or drop below half-time. (described under the subheading for Diplomas and transcripts will be withheld Federal Direct Stafford Loans). The benefit for failure to comply with the Exit of additional Unsubsidized Stafford Interview requirement. eligibility does not apply to Graduate students whose Direct Graduate PLUS Health Professions Student Loans & Loans application has been denied due to credit. for Disadvantaged Students The Health Professions Student Loan Federal Direct Graduate PLUS Loans Program (HPSL) and the Loans for Borrowers under the Grad PLUS program Disadvantaged Students Program (LDS) are must be enrolled in an approved graduate long-term, low-interest rate, need-based level of study. Students’ eligibility criteria federal loan programs designed to are comparable to those for Stafford Loans. encourage increased participation of Student borrowers must not have an disadvantaged populations in the health adverse credit history. Borrowers who are professions. The programs are funded by denied the PLUS loan may reapply with a the Health Resources and Services cosigner. The amounts borrowed for any Administration (HRSA). The HPSL and
45 LDS loans have very limited funding and • Enroll as a full-time student and are offered to students based on the meet SAP requirements. availability of funds. • Student must be a US Citizen, Eligible Non-Citizen, or Permanent Health Professions Student Loans and Resident Loans for Disadvantaged Students are • Have submitted a FAFSA for the awarded to students who demonstrate current aid year with NYCPM financial need and meet awarding criteria. School Code (G02749) The amount of HPSL or LDS funds • Report parent income and asset awarded to a student plus the amount of information on the FAFSA even if an the student's expected family contribution independent student (EFC), including parent contribution, may • Demonstrate financial need not exceed the student's cost of attendance. There is no lifetime aggregate maximum In addition, students applying for Loans for under this program. Disadvantaged Students (LDS) funds must be from a disadvantaged background as To be eligible for the Health Professions defined by the Secretary of Health and Student Loan or the Loan for Human Services (HHS). Students who Disadvantaged Students a student must: want to be considered for the HPSL or LDS loans must contact the financial aid department.
Loan for Disadvantaged Health Professions Loan Information Students Student Loan
Interest Rate 5% 5%
Beginning of repayment Beginning of Interest Accrues period repayment period
Origination Fee None None
Initial Grace Period 12 months 12 months
Deferment Options Multiple Options Multiple Options
Repayment Period 10 years 10 years
Repayment Plans Quarterly payment Quarterly payment
programs. These loans are not need-based, require a credit check and may require Private Loans other evaluations of the borrower’s credit- In addition to the above loans, students and worthiness. Alternative loans may require parents may apply for private loan that the borrower apply with a co-signer.
46 Students who owe balances from prior establishes steps that NYCPM must take to years or who are ineligible for federal loans ensure compliance with federal regulations. may wish to explore private loan funding. NYCPM is not affiliated with any private Policy educational lender and encourages students NYCPM must always return any unearned to use all federal and state funding prior to Title IV funds that it is responsible for seeking funds from private educational within 45 days of the date NYCPM lenders. The Office of Financial Aid will determined the student withdrew and offer offer advice to students on resources to any post-withdrawal disbursement of loan finance their educational expenses. funds within 30 days of that date.
Withdrawal Date Withdrawal Policy, Federal Return to Title A student’s withdrawal date varies IV (R2T4) depending on the type of withdrawal.
Objective Official Notification Provided The Title IV Student Withdrawal Policy is In a case when the student provides official designed to ensure the accurate and timely notification of his/her intent to withdraw, determination of: NYCPM will use the date of notification as 1) The date of the institution’s follows: determination that a student • In the event that a student begins withdrew; NYCPM’s withdrawal process,* the 2) The student’s withdrawal date; and date the student begins the process 3) The student’s last date of is the date of withdrawal. attendance. • In the event that a student sends The policy maintains the proper disposition written notification of intent to of Title IV funds, in accordance with 34 CFR withdraw, the date NYCPM receives 668.22 of the Code of Federal Regulations. the written notice is the date of withdrawal. Background • In the event that a student makes an Title IV or federal financial aid is awarded oral notification to the Office of the to students based upon the assumption that Registrar, which is NYCPM’s they will complete their semesters of designated office for beginning the enrollment and earn satisfactory grades. withdrawal process, the date will be When students fail to complete their classes, documented by this office. The date they may lose eligibility for federal funds of withdrawal will be recorded as of that they already received or could have the date of oral notification, unless received. there is subsequent written notification, in which case the date When a recipient of Title IV grant(s) and/or that NYCPM receives the written loan(s) withdraws (voluntarily or notification may be the withdrawal involuntarily) from NYCPM during a date. payment period (or semester) in which he/she began attendance, the college must *To begin the withdrawal process, the determine the amount of the grant and/or student contacts the Office of the Registrar loan assistance earned by the student as of to obtain the appropriate withdrawal form. his/her withdrawal date. This policy If the student both begins the withdrawal
47 process and provides a notification to Date of Official Notification Not Provided NYCPM, the earlier of the two dates will be This is the date that NYCPM learns the used as the withdrawal date. student has ceased attendance. NYCPM will perform the Return to Title IV Funds Official Notification Not Provided calculation and return any unearned funds In a case when the student does not provide no later than 45 days after the end of the official notification of his/her intent to payment period determining the withdraw, NYCPM may use the midpoint withdrawal date. For a student who of the payment period as the date of withdraws without providing notification withdrawal, with the following exception: to NYCPM, the institution must determine • When an official notification was not the withdrawal date no later than 30 days provided by the student because of after the end of the earliest: circumstances beyond his/her • Payment period or period of control (i.e., illness, accident, enrollment (as appropriate) grievous personal loss, or other • Academic year. circumstances), the date of the onset • Educational program. of such circumstances will be serve as the withdrawal date as Calculation of Earned Title IV Assistance determined by the Office of the U.S. Department of Education software will Registrar. be used to perform all refund calculations. A copy of the completed calculation Last Date of Attendance worksheet will be kept in the student’s file NYCPM may always use the withdrawal in the Office of Financial Aid. The amount date as the student's last date of attendance of Title IV assistance earned by the student at an academic activity reported by a faculty is calculated by determining the percentage member on a course enrollment roster or of grant and/or loan assistance earned by final grade sheet. Examples of academic the student and applying that percentage to activities are exams, tutorials, computer- the total amount of grant and/or loan assisted instruction, academic counseling, assistance disbursed to the student or on the turning in class assignments, or attending a student's behalf for the payment period, as study group assigned by the college. The of his/her withdrawal date. The percentage faculty member will maintain of Title IV assistance earned will be equal to documentation of the last date of the percentage of the payment period attendance. completed by the student, when said percentage is less than 60%. If the student’s Date of Institution’s Determination of withdrawal date occurs after the completion Student Withdrawal of 60% of the payment period, the The date of NYCPM’s determination that a percentage earned is 100%. student withdrew varies depending upon the type of withdrawal. Post-Withdrawal Disbursements If the total amount of the Title IV grant Date of Official Notification Provided and/or loan assistance earned by the This is the date the student provides official student is more than the amount that was notification to NYCPM or begins the disbursed to the student as of the withdrawal process, whichever is later. withdrawal date, the difference between the two amounts will be treated as a post- withdrawal disbursement. In the event of
48 outstanding charges on the student’s Upon receipt of a timely response from the account, NYCPM will credit his/her student or parent, NYCPM will disburse account for all or part of the amount of the funds in the manner specified in the post-withdrawal disbursement, up to the response. Distribution will occur within amount of allowable charges. 180 days of the date of determination of the student’s withdrawal date. If no response If Direct Loan funds are used to credit the is received from the student or parent, student’s account, NYCPM will notify the NYCPM will not disburse any of the student (or parent for a PLUS Loan) and funds. NYCPM maintains the right to provide the student (or parent) with the decide whether or not to make a post- opportunity to cancel all or a portion of the withdrawal disbursement in the event that loan(s). the student (or parent for a PLUS Loan) responds after 14 days of the date that Any amount of a post-withdrawal notification was sent to them. If NYCPM disbursement that is comprised of loan decides not to make this post-withdrawal funds and has not been credited to a disbursement, it will inform the student (or student’s account will be offered to the parent) in writing. In the case of a post- student (or parent for a PLUS Loan) within withdrawal disbursement, grant funds will 30 days of the date the college determined be disbursed prior to loan funds. the student's withdrawal. Any earned grant funds that the student is eligible to receive Refund of Unearned Funds to Title IV due to a post-withdrawal disbursement will If the total amount of Title IV grant and/or be provided within 45 days of the date loan assistance that was earned by the of determination. Students will be notified student is less than the amount that was of such disbursements in writing. The disbursed to the student as of the notification will include: withdrawal date, the difference between the • Identification of the type and two amounts will be returned to Title IV amount of the Title IV funds that programs and no further disbursements make up the post-withdrawal will be made. Funds will be returned as disbursement (not to include any follows: amounts that have been applied to the student’s account); Refunds by the College • Explanation that the student (or In the event that NYCPM is responsible for parent for a PLUS loan) may accept returning funds to Title IV programs, the or decline some or all of the post- funds will be returned in the order withdrawal disbursement (that prescribed by the U.S. Department of which has not been applied to the Education (listed below) within 45 days of student’s account); and the date of determination of a student's • Advisement that NYCPM is not withdrawal. required to make a post- • Unsubsidized Federal Direct withdrawal disbursement if the Student Loans student (or parent for a PLUS Loan) • Subsidized Federal Direct Student does not respond within 14 days of Loans the date that NYCPM sent the • Perkins Loans notification. • Federal Direct PLUS Loans
49 • Federal Pell Grants for the payment The Title IV funds calculation and other period for which a return of funds is accompanying documentation will be required secured in the Office of Financial Aid. • Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG) for the payment period for Additional Financial Aid Policies for which a return of funds is required Graduate Students • National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant Transfer Students (SMART) for the payment period for All students transferring from other which a return of funds is required institutions will have their credits • Federal Supplemental Educational evaluated. The Office of Admissions will Opportunity Grants (FSEOG) for notify the Office of Financial Aid of the the payment period for which a number of accepted credits. return of funds is required • Teacher Education Assistance for The financial aid package will be prepared College and Higher Education Grant based on the number of accepted transfer (TEACH) for the payment period for credits. If a financial aid package is which a return of funds is required prepared prior to the final transfer credit • Other assistance under Title IV for evaluation, federal loans will be awarded which a return of funds is required based on the grade level for which the transfer credits have been accepted. If Refunds by the Student additional transfer credits are accepted, the In the event that the student is responsible Office of Admissions will notify the Office for returning grants funds to Title of Financial Aid. In addition, a student must IV programs, NYCPM will notify the contact the Office of Financial Aid to student within 45 days of the date of determine if he/she is eligible for an determination of his/her withdrawal. The increase in federal student loans based on student will be advised concerning making academic grade level. arrangements for repayment. Financial Aid for Repeated Coursework: In some cases both the student and NYCPM Financial Aid Impact are each responsible for returning funds to Repeating courses may significantly impact the U.S. Department of Education under the Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) and R2T4 regulations. eligibility for Title IV federal financial aid and institutional aid. All course repeats will Payment Period or Enrollment Period count as attempted credits and be used in Withdrawals and the return of Title IV the quantitative and maximum timeframe funds will be based on a payment period components of the SAP policy. Students for all standard term (or semester) should consult with a financial aid advisor programs. before registering for a repeated course.
Documentation The rules regarding repeated coursework NYCPM must document a student’s will further impact recipients of Title IV withdrawal date and the date of federal financial aid funding. Students are determination that the student withdrew. allowed to repeat coursework under these The documents will be kept in the student’s circumstances for Federal Financial Aid: academic file in the Office of the Registrar.
50 • May repeat a previously passed determine if a student has achieved good course only once (and receive aid for academic standing and is making the repeated course). satisfactory progress toward graduation. • May repeat a failed course until it is Please see the complete Satisfactory passed (aid eligibility will be limited Academic Policy found on the website: to one repeat). http://www.touro.edu/students/policies/ • May not repeat a previously passed satisfactory-academic-progress-policy/ course due only to a student’s failure to pass other coursework. FINANCIAL AID TERMS
Default: failure to repay a student loan STANDARDS OF SATISFACTORY according to the terms agreed to at the time ACADEMIC PROGRESS the promissory note was signed. The school, Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) lender, State, and the Federal government requires that students are able to complete may all take action against a defaulted their academic program in a timely manner student in order to recover the money. while achieving and maintaining compliance with minimum academic Entrance Interview: A counseling session all standards. Federal regulations mandate that first-time borrowers are required to attend all students are required to conform to SAP at the time they apply for a Stafford loan, standards as they work toward a degree in advising them of their obligations, rights, order for them to qualify to receive financial and responsibilities as borrowers. assistance through all New York College of Podiatric Medicine (NYCPM) eligible Title Exit Interview: A counseling session IV federal financial aid programs. borrowers must attend before leaving Conformance to NYCPM’s SAP policy school. At this session, the school will give ensures that students complete their the borrower information on the amount academic program in a timely manner while owed, the amount of monthly repayment, achieving and maintaining compliance with and information regarding deferment, minimum academic standards. refinancing, and loan consolidation options.
This SAP policy applies to all NYCPM Financial Need: The difference between the students. These standards are for Title IV cost of education (tuition, fees, room, board, Federal Financial Aid purposes only and books and other related expenses) and the neither replace nor override academic amount the student and his/her family can policies outlined by NYCPM, other state or afford to pay, as determined by prescribed Federal benefit programs (i.e., NYS Tuition formulas used to calculate need from Assistance Program) or individual program information reported on the FAFSA requirements. However, these standards are application. intended to be at least as rigorous as NYCPM’s academic policies. New Borrower: A term that applies to the Stafford Loan(s), and Parents Loan for NYCPM is required to evaluate three Undergraduate Students (PLUS). A student components of a student’s academic record: is a “new borrower” under these programs qualitative measure - cumulative grade if, upon the date the promissory note is point average; quantitative measure - pace signed, he/she had no outstanding Stafford of completion; and maximum timeframe, to Loans, PLUS, SLS, or consolidation loans,
51 and if the loan was either disbursed on or of the next two semesters for which the after July 1, 1987, or was for a period of student is registered. Should there be a enrollment that began on or after July 1, balance at the end of the academic year; any 1987. Once a student qualifies as a new surplus will be applied to the next academic borrower, the loan conditions that apply to semester. Exception: Graduating seniors “new borrowers” automatically apply to with a scholarship balance will be presented any future Stafford or PLUS loan that a with a final check (less any financial student receives. responsibilities incurred) at graduation.
Promissory Note: A legal document signed by a borrower at the time he/she gets a Student Refunds student loan. It lists the conditions under which the borrowing takes place and the Any student in overpayment of tuition will terms under which the borrower agrees to receive a refund. All refunds are issued pay back the loan. within 14 days of the credit balance posted to their student account (check your Institutional Scholarships TouchNet account activity to confirm the A limited number of scholarships are posting). Refunds may be processed via awarded to selected incoming freshmen (see paper check or E-check directly to the also Admissions section). These student’s bank account of choice. We scholarships are distributed over the four- strongly recommend that students opt into year program and continued eligibility is the Direct Deposit option, which allows you based on continued academic eligibility and to receive your refund faster via electronic continued enrollment over eight deposit to the bank account of your choice. consecutive semesters. To sign up, students should log in to the Scholarships for continuing students are TouroOne portal also available. Announcements for such https://touroone.touro.edu/, using their scholarships are made during the academic portal credentials. Then access their student year to all continuing students. The account via TouchNet. Select Refund and Scholarship Committee meets on a regular follow the instructions. basis to review and identify eligible Please ensure that you update your account students for the specific scholarships. information. The college is not responsible These scholarships are described in the for delays in payments due to incorrect section on Academic Standards and information entered by the student or their Guidelines in this Catalog. representatives. If paid by credit card, that Please note: All scholarships are subject to credit card will be refunded. annual review and are awarded based on availability. New awards may also become If you apply for Federal Direct Loans, you available. All scholarship applications and will be notified via email of the date your announcements are transmitted via e-mail loan funds have been received and credited by the financial aid department and/or the to your student account. If you wish to scholarship committee. cancel all or a portion of your loan please All scholarship money awarded by the New return the notification to the Financial Aid York College of Podiatric Medicine to Office within 14 days. continuing students shall be applied towards tuition and fees. One half of the scholarship amount will be applied to each
52 Exit Interviews All students who receive federal student Loans from NYCPM are required to participate in an Exit Interview online. This must be done prior to graduation or separation from the College. At this interview, terms and options of repayments, deferment, plus student and lender rights and responsibilities will be discussed. Diplomas and transcripts will be withheld for failure to comply with the Exit Interview requirement.
53 Student Services Dean for Student Services and Enrollment Management Lisa Lee, MA Coordinator of Student Services and Enrollment Management Courtney Cadle, B.A. Registrar Doreen D’Amico, MS Associate Registrar Adrian Rice, BA Financial Aid Toni Daniels, MPH Senior Housing Coordinator Natasha D. Peele Bursar Nataliia Samiiliv, B.B.A.
Records and Registration student or former student who has delinquent financial obligations to the Students must be registered for the semester College or its lenders. in order to attend classes. Registration as a student requires possession of all admission Students are notified annually of their requirements, satisfaction of financial rights under the Family Educational Rights obligations, compliance with health and and Privacy Act (FERPA), as amended via immunization requirements, and in the case the FERPA section in the student handbook. of international students, proof of eligible Students have the right to review, inspect immigration status. and challenge the accuracy of the contents of their educational record, in the presence Initial registration of freshmen occurs by of an authorized College officer, within a Orientation day. Thereafter, students who reasonable period of time upon written remain enrolled full-time and in good request. They are not permitted to inspect standing (both academically and and review (1) confidential letters of financially), are registered for each new recommendation placed in files prior to semester on the scheduled date. Others January 1, 1975, as long as the letters are must register during the late registration used only for the purposes for which they period after satisfying all necessary were specifically intended; nor (2) conditions. confidential letters or statements of recommendation placed in the student's Academic records are maintained records after January 1, 1975, if the student permanently by the Registrar. Transcripts, has waived his or her right to inspect and certification of registration and related review those letters and statements. documents are issued upon written request by the student or former student. Students may exercise some control of the Transaction fees are detailed in the section disclosure of what is called “directory” on Tuition and Fees. information (name, address, telephone listing, date and place of birth, participation Transcripts and Confidentiality in officially recognized activities, dates of Transcripts are issued upon written request attendance, degrees and awards received, by current or former students accompanied and previous educational institutions by the appropriate fee (see fees for these attended). Educational records, other than and other documents under Tuition and directory information, are not disclosed to Fees). They will not be issued to, or for, a third parties unless requested in writing by the student, except for disclosure of such
54 records to (1) NYCPM College officers who have legitimate educational interests, (2) New York College of Podiatric Medicine certain authorized representatives of state enjoys a very high level of student and federal agencies, (3) persons/ retention to program completion, due in organizations designated by NYCPM to part to careful selection of candidates, perform specified management or and in part to College-wide efforts of administrative tasks, and (4) lenders or faculty, staff and fellow students to lending agencies to whom a student has applied for financial aid, as may be assist those students who are challenged necessary for such purposes. A summary of by various circumstances which could student rights under FERPA is provided in potentially jeopardize their successful the Appendix of the Student Handbook. A completion of the D.P.M. degree. complete privacy policy can be found within the NYCPM Student Handbook as Academic support services, detailed in well as on the NYCPM Webpage. the Student Handbook, include the following: Leave of Absence (LOA) 1. Academic Advising by faculty Students who require temporary absence members; from the College may be allowed to do so by applying for a leave of absence for a 2. Peer tutoring by outstanding specified period. Applications must be in students who are paid by the College writing addressed to the Dean for Student for their services; Services, who forwards the request to the 3. Learning Specialist to provide Committee on Academic Performance and academic resources and support; Promotions (CAPP). Students who are granted a leave of absence will be permitted 4. Counseling by a professional to return to the college without re- counselor; application. 5. Accommodations for students with Withdrawal from the College disabilities, including learning disabilities. Information regarding Students withdrawing from NYCPM requests for accommodations may be should notify the Dean for Student Services found in the Student Handbook. in writing. Students who withdraw from the College in good standing can apply for re-admission. These students must meet the entrance requirements and be Student Handbook academically eligible for the class to which The Student Handbook details many admission is sought. Those withdrawing topics introduced in this catalog, as well from the College must make a written as College policies and procedures with request to the Dean of Student Services for which students must comply and other refund of tuition if applicable, and must have an exit interview with the Director of useful information. Its contents include Financial Aid and complete a “Separation resources and services for students, checklist” which may be obtained from the academic standards and policies, Registrar. See the Student Handbook for including the grading system, exams, further details. retesting and promotion, the Honor
55 Code and other student conduct parking lots, and College vehicles. regulations, the procedures of the Tobacco use is prohibited at all College- Honor Council, safety and security, law sponsored, off-campus events. While the enforcement, annual crime statistics and College recognizes it does not have other reference information. At jurisdiction over public areas, consistent Orientation, new students are advised with good health practices and how to access the Handbook at the municipal policies, use of tobacco in any College’s web site. In addition, printed form must be no closer than 50 feet of copies of the Handbook are available for any College or Foot Center entrance or reference in the Library and the Office College parking lot. of Student Services. Students are expected to familiarize themselves with the Student Handbook and comply with its policies and regulations. Drug and Alcohol Abuse Testing Background Check NYCPM holds its students to the highest ethical and professional All entering students are subject to a standards. The use or possession of criminal background check as a illegal drugs and the abuse of drugs or condition of enrollment. In addition, alcohol are inconsistent with these students in the clinical years may be standards and may result in disciplinary required to complete updated measures including dismissal. background checks. A steadily increasing number of hospital NYCPM also reserves the right to residencies and state licensing boards require a student to submit to a drug require such a check as a condition for screen, either random or based on a admission to a residency or for licensure reasonable suspicion that the student to practice podiatric medicine. possesses, uses or distributes illegal drugs or abuses drugs or alcohol in violation of NYCPM policy or any The New York College of federal or state laws. This policy is Podiatric Medicine Tobacco-Free detailed in the Student Handbook. Policy
This policy applies to all tobacco and Student Health Requirements tobacco products in any form including Prior to matriculation, students at the chew tobacco and e-cigarettes. The New College are required to have a physical York College of Podiatric Medicine examination, ppd skin testing (for strictly prohibits the use of tobacco in tuberculosis) and demonstrate proof of and around grounds and facilities under immunity to measles, mumps, rubella the College’s management, including and varicella via titers. Please see the College and Foot Center of New York most current edition of the Student buildings, all entrances and exits to Handbook for more thorough health these buildings, all College-maintained requirements.
56 Books and Supplies There are additional health-related Lists of required textbooks are requirements which affect students published prior to each semester. The when they approach the clinical phase “required” books are those which the of their training, both at NYCPM/FCNY student is responsible to use throughout and at affiliated health care facilities, each course for completing reading and that these additional requirements assignments and achieving many of the are communicated to students in a learning objectives of the course. timely manner via the student handbook and other appropriate A collection of NYCPM-themed channels of communication. merchandise including apparel and
other items bearing the NYCPM logo or All students will be required each year, College name is available online (see at the time of registration, to certify and “NYCPM Shop” under “Students” on provide proof that they have a the NYCPM website) and through the recognized health care insurance policy Student Services Office. or a recognized Accident and Illness policy, including hospitalization, which will be in force for the academic year. Laptops and Other Equipment This certification is required to complete There is required equipment which registration. The College contracts with students must have and use throughout an underwriter to provide a sickness certain courses and clerkships. and accident policy. Participation in the Beginning with the Class of 2017, all College’s health plan is mandatory for entering first year students will receive students who cannot certify that they an NYCPM issued iPad. Use of this have a health care insurance policy. device is mandatory, in particular for electronic testing, but also in the expectation that the device will be Identification Cards integrated into students’ pre-clinical and Students, faculty and staff are issued clinical education. Prior to the photo identification cards. These cards beginning of third year for use in are to be displayed at all times while in clinical activities, PDAs or other the New York College of Podiatric internet-capable handheld devices are Medicine or the Foot Center of New required. The NYCPM iPad may also be York. The cards help to ensure security used. Any such device must meet of students, faculty and staff within the system requirements. Other required school and clinic buildings. Students materials include medical equipment, as should always be ready to present the well as lab, clinic and surgical attire. cards upon entering the College and System requirements for electronic Clinic facilities. equipment will be announced to incoming students prior to matriculation. Required equipment for any course is listed in the syllabus of
57 that course. The cost of required books Office, in order to receive consideration. and equipment is calculated into Acceptance by the New York College of student financial aid budgets. Podiatric Medicine does not guarantee housing accommodations. Food Service White Coat Ceremony The Cafeteria (3rd floor, College At the beginning of the semester of building) serves breakfast and lunch, Freshman year, students are presented ranging from snacks and sandwiches to with their inaugural white coats hot meals, with daily specials, including symbolizing the life-long commitment some vegetarian selections, and a salad and dedication they will undertake in bar. In addition, vending machines serving the podiatric health care needs with snack foods and beverages are of their patients. At the conclusion of conveniently located. the ceremony, the Hippocratic Oath is
administered by the Academic Dean. Housing The Oath is administered again at The New York College of Podiatric commencement. Medicine does its best to assist its students in locating suitable housing, conveniently located, with easy access to Fitness Center the College. The fitness center at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine features a Off-campus housing information is variety of fitness equipment. The center available through the Housing Office. is open from 6:00 am to 9:00 pm NYCPM-provided housing for NYCPM Monday through Friday. It is open to students is conveniently located three all registered students of NYCPM. blocks from the College. It is available on a first come, first served basis. Religious Holidays Housing information may be obtained from the Housing Office by calling the The administration and faculty are College-wide toll-free number 1-800- sensitive to the diverse religious 526-6966. affiliations of students. If an examination or other college activity is Housing is assigned in priority order of scheduled on the same day as a the date the request is received. religious holiday, the student should Housing is available only to registered contact the appropriate faculty member NYCPM students and cannot be offered to request other arrangements to to married couples and families. complete the scheduled activity.
Students interested in pursuing living accommodations through the Housing Office should complete a housing application and submit it to the Housing
58 Student Life—Activities classes, Secretary, Treasurer and Alumni Representative), as well as the APMSA and Organizations delegates/alternates for each of the four classes, the junior representative to the Student Government State Society and the President of the local Student National Podiatric Medical The New York College of Podiatric Association (SNPMA) chapter. Each Medicine Student Association Class Officer’s service begins and ends (NYCPMSA) is a local organization of with the respective academic year all students at the New York College of unless otherwise specified. The APMSA Podiatric Medicine. Students become delegates and alternates are elected members of NYCPMSA upon admission during the Freshman year and retain the to the College and upon payment of office for the duration of all four years. their tuition and fees. Communication is maintained on a national basis with The Student Council maintains other student governments through the legislative and administrative authority, American Podiatric Medical Students’ consistent with College policy, on Association (APMSA). matters concerning the students of the
College. The Student Council makes The officers of the NYCPMSA are the every effort to represent the interests of Executive Board, comprised of the the student body by maintaining an President, Vice President, Secretary and atmosphere of collaboration with the Treasurer. Each officer/representative administration and faculty. of the Student Association and its subordinate organization(s) shall be, Organizations and Clubs both at the time of candidacy and during his/her tenure of office, a full- In cooperation with the NYCPMSA, time student at NYCPM and shall not be several student organizations help to on academic or other probation. Each schedule both academic and social NYCPMSA Executive Board officer shall activities. Class picnics, Freshman serve in office for a period of one (1) Orientation, Spring Foot Ball year, unless otherwise specified. He/she Dinner/Dance, and the Senior Class assumes full tenure of office on July 1 Party are just some of the events and shall continue until June 30 of the scheduled each year sponsored by the following year. The current NYCPMSA and/or one of its Constitution of the NYCPMSA can be organizations. In conjunction with the found at the College web site. other schools of podiatric medicine, the Student Association sponsors a The Student Council is a subset group Basketball Team to represent the of the NYCPMSA. The members of the College at an annual national Student Council are comprised of the tournament. NYCPMSA Executive Board, the Class Officers (President, Vice-President, Student National Podiatric Medical Association (SNPMA)
59 The local chapter of SNPMA continues principles and practices that are to reach out to the local community of essential to podiatric surgery and Harlem by volunteering their services medicine. NYCPM‟s Surgery Club and educating the community about the holds events such as suturing labs diseases that affect the lower extremity. under the guidance of Surgery SNPMA has gained recognition for its department faculty and residents of annual projects such as Toys for Tots, Metropolitan Hospital, monthly journal which happens during the Christmas article presentations/discussions, and season along with the annual coat drive. surgical instrument workshops which In addition, the club continues to introduce club members to common participate in the Meals on Wheels tools used by the podiatric surgeon. The program and volunteers their services main goal of surgery club is to create a by providing foot screenings at churches hands on environment in which and organizations in Harlem. SNPMA students can practice what they have has raised funds to help people affected been taught during didactic sessions by the disaster in Haiti. and discuss current topics in podiatric surgery. American Association for Women Podiatrists (AAWP) Sports Medicine Club AAWP encourages camaraderie and The Sports Medicine Club’s goal is to helps form bonds among the women of allow for students with an interest in the NYCPM. It serves as a support group to treatment of athletes to enhance their promote success both at school and in knowledge through direct applications practice, obtaining scholarship within the field of podiatry. The club assistance for members and promotes hosts guest speakers experienced in the volunteer activities. The NYCPM treatment of athletes and also offers student chapter sponsors an annual journal club presentations on the most Spring Luncheon, invites speakers, common sports injuries seen in the foot participates in fundraisers, and authors and ankle. Workshops in basic padding, a newsletter, the Barefeet Press. Club strapping and taping techniques are also members continue to assist in annual offered to club members. The Sports marathons like Terry Fox in Central Medicine Club also provides student Park, NYC. volunteers for the medical tents at the New York City Marathon and ACFAS Surgery Club Triathlon. The ACFAS Surgery Club at NYCPM is a student chapter of the American ASPS Surgery Club College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons The NYCPM Chapter of the American (ACFAS). The club hosts a variety of Society of Podiatric Surgeons, the ASPS lectures, workshops, journal clubs, and Surgery Club was established in research projects. Students are September 2011. ASPS is an introduced to the fundamental independent organization, formed to
60 collaborate with APMA in representing establish a “Diabetes Awareness Day” the surgical interests of APMA during Diabetes Awareness Month to members. The purpose of the Surgery provide the surrounding community Club is to provide students with free foot screenings, pamphlets, videos, additional exposure to surgery lectures health tips, activities, events, and to and workshops and encourage learning encourage, motivate, and promote a beyond the regular curriculum. Past healthy life-style. activities have included a workshop on suture techniques and a lecture on Orthopedics Club “orthobiologics.” In an effort to keep The Orthopedics Club, a student students updated on the newest surgical chapter of the American College of Foot techniques, they hold a bi-weekly and Ankle Orthopedics and Medicine journal club and open discussion, to (ACFAOM), strives to promote which all NYCPM students are education and enhancement of welcome. Planned activities include knowledge in the field of Podiatric hands-on workshops on ankle and Orthopedics and Pediatrics. Their goal hallux blocks, as well as internal and is to provide students an opportunity to external fixation. advance their understanding of evaluation, treatment, management and Diabetes and Wound Care Club prevention of lower extremity injuries The NYCPM Diabetes Club is that result from pathomechanics and committed to raising awareness in the orthopedic dysfunction in adults and diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of children through hands-on experience, diabetes. This is accomplished via club seminars and workshops. Additional meetings, journal discussions, and club activities involve a hands-on community service projects. Employing approach of gait analysis, casting a clinically-based approach, meetings workshops and service projects to help provide a setting in which podiatric the surrounding Harlem community. medical students discuss various The club participates in monthly journal modalities in the diagnosis, prevention, clubs, promoting evidence based culture and treatment of the disease. of critical evaluation and the analytical Community service projects such as the skills necessary to evaluate orthopedic American Diabetes Association clinical research. Convention and the Diabetes Walk Pediatrics Club enable NYCPM to work closely with the The Pediatrics Club provides an avenue ADA in an effort to educate the public for students interested in the specialty of of the problems associated with pediatrics to gain further knowledge diabetes. The club organizes student and exposure to the field of volunteers to participate in several foot Podopediatrics. Guest lecturers and screenings, such as the aforementioned workshops on topics such as pediatric ADA Convention and the 92nd Street Y. gait exams and pediatric orthopedic One current objective is to work with devices provide critical insight on how other student organizations and clubs to
61 to evaluate and treat pediatric patients. relevant issues pertaining to operating a Pediatric foot screenings and medical practice. The club emphasizes presentations at local schools allows for the importance of acquiring certain hands-on learning and interactions with practice management skills such as the local pediatric community. The being familiar with billing and coding. Pediatrics Club aspires to enhance and encourage the study of pediatric care. Public Health Club The Pediatrics Club has been active on the international front through such NYCPM’s Public Health Club strives to efforts as a fundraising effort for a baby promote and enhance both knowledge in Bosnia diagnosed with Epidermolysis and participation in the field of Public Bullosa and a drive to collect nutritional Health. Public health as it pertains to and medical supplies for the children of foot health plays an important role in Hardt Haven Children's Home in the daily work of podiatric physicians. Ghana. The Club promotes good health, disease prevention and patient education on International Podiatry Club issues that pertain to their general health and foot health. The Public The IPC’s objective is to explore Health Club is proud to work closely podiatry worldwide, with hopes of with the community and is always extending podiatric medical attention to seeking local, state, and national those in need outside of the US. This has community events, concerns and been accomplished with an annual promotions. Members actively engage podiatric mission to Jamaica. With the in local foot screenings and health fairs, aid and support of students and faculty and participate in philanthropic rd this mission trip includes several 3 activities as those opportunities arise. In year podiatric students, a DPM faculty addition, they present journal articles to member, and a team from Washington. keep their members informed on the Through the guidance of attending latest research. The Public Health Club faculty, the students apply their clinical also provides opportunities for student skills to provide medical attention to research with faculty. those patients who cannot otherwise afford it. In addition to providing basic Asian-American Podiatric Student medical and foot care, our students Association scrub in and assist with surgical procedures. The Asian-American Podiatric Student Association seeks to promote an understanding of podiatric medicine, Practice Management Club especially within the Asian-American community, and a networking The NYCPM Practice Management opportunity for Asian-American Club exists to advance the study of students at NYCPM and those from podiatric practice management and to other podiatric medical schools. increase the student body’s exposure to Activities include seminars and
62 workshops involving guest lecturers the publication is to steer students and journal discussions, participation in towards Podiatric research, and to get health-care events, outreach and service students comfortable with approaching to underserved communities locally and and analyzing medical literary works. in Asian countries, and joint social Peer review is conducted with the aim events with students from other of ensuring that the manuscripts are podiatric medical schools. held with the highest standard. The PMR is a testament to outstanding student work that is readily accessible to podiatric residency programs as well as Student Publication Opportunities other schools of podiatric medicine. Podiatric Medical Review Ultimately, learning the process of peer- reviewed, scientific writing enhances The NYCPM Podiatric Medical Review the education at NYCPM and helps to provides opportunities exclusive to create well-rounded future clinicians. NYCPM students. The meritable goal of
63 Library Services Chief Medical Librarian Paul Tremblay, M.L.I.S., M.A. Medical Librarian Lorraine Chun, M.L.I.S.
Library’s Mission over 13,000 books and bound journals is The library’s resources and services are housed in open shelves in an environment designed to support the curriculum as well that permits easy access for library users. All as the research and clinical needs of the books are arranged on the shelves according students, faculty and members of the to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) podiatric profession. We are located on the classification system. Library staff keeps second floor of the clinic wing. abreast of latest developments; therefore, our collection comprises recent titles in the Print Resources pre-clinical and clinical medical sciences as The print resources include bibliographic well as in the field of Podiatric Medicine. and instructional material, the collection of We own all required and recommended titles.
64 Electronic Resources Students can access many electronic The library’s membership in the New York resources, both on and off campus. These Metropolitan Reference and Research resources include PubMed, ScienceDirect, Agency, the Basic Health Science Library Ovid Medline, Net Anatomy, Anatomy TV, (BHSL) consortium, the Brooklyn, Queens, JOMI, Cochrane Databases, UpToDate, Staten Island, Manhattan and the Bronx tdsHealth (Stat!Ref), RefWorks and (BQSIMB) Health Science Library hundreds of e-books, e-journals, and Consortia, as well as FreeShare, among medical/surgical videos we subscribe to. others, enables NYCPM to share in the Our e-library offers a News Feed feature resources of major libraries in the United which enables us to display the most recent States and Canada. PubMed citations on selected medical and podiatric-related topics, LibGuides Our students and faculty can contact us by resources, and Open Educational Resources phone, email, in person or directly through (OER). NYCPM’s Podiatric Medical our webpage “Ask the Librarian” forms. Reviews which is the student journal that student authors and editors collaborate with faculty to produce highly researched articles relating to podiatric medicine, and student and faculty bibliographies are accessible through our e-library.
Services to Library Users The library lends study tools for in-building use. These materials include foot models, skeletons, dry erase markers, flash cards, headphones, etc.
Reference and advisory services include assistance in locating and using materials, answering reference questions, helping to compile bibliographies, or verifying citations, assisting with researching topics for publication and providing backup for Medline or PubMed searches. Journal articles and some monographs which the library does not own may be obtained by requesting an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) at no additional cost; such requests are usually filled within 24 hours.
Students have access to our in-house instructional surgery videos, as well as tutorials on our website on topics such as PubMed, locating e-resources, etc.
65 Academic Standards and Guidelines
NYCPM believes that clear academic approval of the Department Chairs, will expectations and carefully monitored state course-specific attendance policies performance will result in the in their syllabi and the consequences of graduation of highly qualified Doctors failure to comply will be clearly defined. of Podiatric Medicine. Therefore, the Regular attendance in all clinical College provides the means to carefully rotations is mandatory. The policies for assess the growth of each student and to laboratory attendance are described in promptly assist if any academic or relevant course syllabi. personal difficulty arises. The primary tools for academic monitoring and The Curriculum Committee is assisting is the Committee on Academic unanimous in believing that attendance Performance and Promotion, a standing at classes is crucial to the educational committee of the Faculty Council. The process and has the firm expectation procedures are outlined in the Student that students will behave accordingly. Handbook. Elective Courses Registration In the interest of delivering an education All students must be registered each beyond the required podiatric medical semester in order to attend classes. curriculum, NYCPM offers low cost, Records of the attendance and academic high quality elective courses that will performance of all registered students provide a student the opportunity to are maintained in compliance with the augment their skills and knowledge. Family Educational Rights and Privacy All courses are held at NYCPM and are Act (FERPA). See “Records and scheduled for times that do not conflict Registration” in the Student Services with required classes. Any student chapter of this Catalog. Refer to the interested in registering for an elective current Student Handbook for detailed course should undertake it only if they information about registration and believe it will not adversely affect their student records). required curriculum and, despite the low cost, not financially compromise Attendance Policy them.
The college recognizes the importance Grading System of attendance in all didactic and recitation courses. The general College- The grading system includes (1) Letter wide attendance policies regarding Grades with a passing range from A (93% or above, 4.0 quality points) to C- attendance at classes and examinations are detailed in the Student Handbook. (70-72%, 1.7 quality points) and the In addition to College-wide policies, the failing grade of F (under 70%, 0 quality individual course directors, with the points), and (2) a Pass/Fail system for
66 certain courses. The grade of P does not published at the end of each academic carry quality points and does not impact year. To qualify for the Dean's list, a the GPA. The grading system is detailed student must be enrolled full-time and in the Student Handbook. Each course have no failures for any courses or syllabus identifies the system used in rotations during the year. This honor is that course. The final grades of all entered on the student's transcript. courses taken at NYCPM are calculated into the term and cumulative GPA. Scholarships and Awards Therefore, a repeated course carries both The Scholarship Committee is a credit and final grade and are always standing committee of the Faculty included in the computation of the GPA. Council which includes representatives The repeated course grade does not of Student Services, Financial Aid and replace the original course grade. Admissions. The Committee establishes Promotion guidelines and academic requirements Promotion to the second, third or fourth for the NYCPM Scholarship Program academic year requires successful and numerous other scholarship and completion of all course work in the award programs offered to NYCPM prior academic year. Individual matters students throughout the four years of concerning promotion are addressed by study. the Committee on Academic Performance and Promotion. Policies The Scholarship Committee facilitates regarding promotion are detailed in the the distribution of these awards by Student Handbook. informing students of the programs, deadlines for application and relevant Scholastic Honors requirements, via e-mail. The Committee also helps to create new Academic excellence is recognized and scholarship programs with new rewarded in many ways by the College, sponsors. including the following honors:
In addition to the scholarships offered to Pi Delta Society incoming freshmen, the NYCPM Students achieving academic excellence Scholarship Program provides may be elected to the Pi Delta Society of scholarship support for academic Podiatric Medicine. This is one of the excellence in the second, third and highest honors conferred on students fourth years of study. Other studying podiatric medicine. Details are scholarships and awards are offered by published in the Student Handbook. alumni, podiatric medical organizations, manufacturers of podiatric medical Dean's List supplies, foundations and corporations. Students earning a GPA of 3.5 or better Some of these require application with for an academic year are eligible to be specific submissions in the form of placed on the Dean's List, which is essays, written material, etc.
67 Scholarships and awards are subject to to two juniors and two senior students change; some of those recently awarded who have demonstrated positive include the following: accomplishments and service to the podiatric community. Steven Seifer Memorial Scholarship Initiated by Monroe Seifer, NYCPM Stephen M. Geller Graduate Merit Award / Chairman Emeritus of the Board of American Board of Podiatric Medicine Trustees. It is awarded to three Graduate Merit Award outstanding students in the sophomore Awarded to the 4th-year student class for highest academic achievement. Awarded for academic excellence in Podiatric Medicine and Orthopedics Dr. Patricia Ellsworth Kopenhaver, and outstanding professional conduct. B.A., M.A., D.P.M. Endowed Scholarship Student Service Award Initiated in 1997 by alumna Patricia E. This award is given to one sophomore, Kopenhaver, D.P.M., former Trustee of junior and senior student as voted on by the College and Charter President of the their class. American Association of Women Podiatrists. The annual scholarship APMA Educational Foundation Student rewards academically qualified female Scholarship members of the NYCPM student The amount and number of winners is chapter of the AAWP. Application determined each year by the APMA. information including is provided via e- Applications are sent to the financial aid mail. office and announcements are sent to the students. Traditionally these awards Jonathan Robertozzi Foundation selections are based on GPA, Memorial Scholarship community and leadership activities This award is sponsored by the NJ and a written essay. Podiatric Medical Society. It is given to two junior students who demonstrate Procedure for Disbursing public involvement with the profession Scholarship Benefits at heart, have financial need and are NJ residents. All scholarship money awarded by the New York College of Podiatric Medicine The Israel Goldstein Award shall be applied towards tuition and This award is given to two junior fees. Except for admission scholarships students who have shown academic and those for graduating seniors (see excellence and community service. Admissions chapter), one half of the scholarship amount will be applied to The Sidney Solid Award each of the next two semesters for which This award was named in honor of Dr. the student is registered. Should there Sidney Solid, DPM, who named the be a balance at the end of the academic college as his heir. This award is given year; any surplus will be applied to the
68 next academic semester. Exception: G. Demonstrated professional Graduating seniors with a scholarship competency and ethical balance will be presented with a final standards to check (less any financial responsibilities practice consistent with the incurred) at graduation. criteria for licensing in New York State. Annual Awards Ceremony A student unable to fulfill any or all of The college holds an annual Awards the requirements by graduation may Ceremony, organized by the participate in the graduation ceremony Scholarship Committee and the Office of without receiving a diploma if the Student Services to honor students who requirement(s) are expected to be met have received scholarships and awards by the First of September of that year, at during the year. The ceremony includes which time a diploma will be issued. If a reception for the recipients and their the September First deadline is not met, guests, the award sponsors, the faculty graduation will be delayed until the and the administration of the college. student’s obligation(s) is/are fulfilled.
Requirements for Graduation Attendance at the commencement When the student successfully ceremony is mandatory for all degree completes the program, the Faculty, the candidates; degrees may be conferred in Dean and the President recommend the absentia with prior approval of the student to the Board of Trustees for Dean. graduation with the degree Doctor of Podiatric Medicine. The criteria for Graduation Honors graduation are the following: Graduates whose cumulative GPA for
the entire D.P.M. program qualifies A. Successful completion of all them for graduation honors will be didactic and clinical requirements honored as follows: of the curriculum with a
cumulative GPA of at least 2.00. The Class Valedictorian is the student B. Absence of outstanding having the highest cumulative GPA in disciplinary matters. the graduating class. C. Fulfillment of all financial
obligations to the College. The Class Salutatorian is the student D. Completion of the program having the second-highest cumulative within six years, not including GPA in the graduating class. approved leaves of absence.
E. Passing of the NBPME Graduates who have completed the Examination, Part I. D.P.M. program with a cumulative GPA F. Successful completion of the of 3.65 to 3.79 graduate Cum Laude. Capstone clinical skills assessment in junior year.
69 This distinction is entered on the A Peer Group Award, whose recipient is diploma. chosen by vote of the Senior Class, is presented at graduation to the fellow Graduates who have completed the Senior who best advanced podiatric D.P.M. program with a cumulative GPA medicine as a student. of 3.80 to 3.89 graduate Magna Cum Laude. This distinction is entered on Licensure the diploma. Doctors of Podiatric Medicine are
required to be licensed in the states in Graduates who have completed the which they practice. Each state has its D.P.M. program with a cumulative GPA own requirements for granting licensure of 3.90 or better graduate Summa Cum and its own licensing board. Generally, Laude. This distinction is entered on a license can be obtained by passing a the diploma. state board-administered examination, and/or by acceptance of the certificate Commencement Awards issued by the National Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners, (parts I, II The following awards are presented and III) or by reciprocity from another annually at Commencement: state. Many states now require ▪ Board of Trustees Award for completion of an approved one-year Leadership postdoctoral residency or community ▪ President’s Award for Excellence in preceptorship to be eligible for Pre-Clinical Sciences licensure.
▪ President’s Award for Academic and The examination given by the National Clinical Excellence Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners is ▪ Steven Seifer Goodfellow Award divided into two written parts. Part I is (Awarded to a member of the given at the end of the second year and faculty) Part II near the end of the fourth year.
▪ NYSPMA Foundation for Podiatric The Divisions of Pre-Clinical Sciences Medicine Scholarship Award and Clinical Studies provide review ▪ Dr. Abraham and Franchi Lavi courses in all disciplines prior to Surgery Scholarship Award National Board Examinations. ▪ Pi Delta Honor Society and Pi Mu Delta Service Society Students graduating after 2004 will be expected to complete a mandatory two- year residency (post-graduate training) program.
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The annual White Coat Ceremony symbolizes lifelong commitment to serving the health care needs of patients.
71 The D.P.M. Curriculum by Year and Semester
CURRICULUM 2021-2022 BY TERM
FIRST YEAR SPRING CLASS
Term 1 - Spring Course No. Course Title Grade Type Credits PCLP600 Bacteriology Letter 3 PCLP605 General Anatomy & Lab Letter 7 PCLP608 Neuroscience Letter 3 Total 13
Term 2 - Fall Course No. Course Title Grade Type Credits PCLP601 Biochemistry Letter 5 PCLP602 Cell Biology and Histology & Lab Letter 5 PCLP603 Introduction to Genetics Letter 2 PCLP604 Physiology I & Lab Letter 3 TOTAL 15
Term 3 – Spring Course No. Course Title Grade Type Credits CHMP614 Medical Ethics and the Art of Doctoring Letter 2 PCLP606 Immunology Letter 3 PCLP607 Molecular Biology&Molecular Genetics Letter 3 PCLP609 Physiology II & Lab Letter 5 TOTAL 13
72 CURRICULUM 2021-2022 BY SEMESTER FIRST YEAR FALL CLASS
Semester I - Fall
Course No. Course Title Grade Type Credits PCLP600 Bacteriology Letter 3 PCLP601 Biochemistry Letter 5 PCLP602 Cell Biology and Histology & Lab Letter 5 PCLP603 Introduction to Genetics Letter 2 PCLP604 Physiology I & Lab Letter 3 Total 18
Semester II – Spring
Course No. Course Title Grade Type Credits CHMP614 Medical Ethics and the Art of Doctoring Letter 2 PCLP605 General Anatomy & Lab Letter 7 PCLP606 Immunology Letter 3 PCLP607 Molecular Biology & Molecular Genetics Letter 3 PCLP608 Neuroscience Letter 3 PCLP609 Physiology II & Lab Letter 5 Total 23
73 SECOND YEAR
Semester III - Fall
Course No. Course Title Grade Type Credits CHMP615 Research Methodology & Epidemiology Letter 2 MEDP618 Dermatology Letter 2 MEDP621 Neurology Letter 1 PCLP610 Infectious Diseases Letter 5.5 PCLP611 Lower Extremity Anatomy & Lab Letter 7.5 PCLP612 Pathology I & Lab Letter 4 Total 22
Semester IV - Spring
Course No. Course Title Grade Type Credits MEDP625 *Podiatric Medicine I Letter 2.5 MEDP613 Physical Assessment & Lab Letter 3 ORTP617 -Biomechanics Letter 1.5 ORTP619 -Functional Orthopedics I Letter 2.5 PCLP620 *Fundamentals of Pathophysiology Letter 2.5 PCLP622 *Pathology II Letter 4 PCLP623 *Pharmacology Letter 4.5 PEDP624 -Podopediatrics I Letter 1.5 SRGP616 *Anesthesiology Letter 2 SRGP626 *Podiatric Surgery of Foot and Ankle I Letter 2 MEDP701 -Combined Clinical Skills P/F 4 Total 30
*Courses meet entire semester -Courses meet in Block Format
74 THIRD YEAR Semester V – Fall
PCLP699 NBPME Part 1 Board Prep P/F 0 MEDP628 Internal Medicine I Letter 2 MEDP629 Medical Imaging I Letter 1 MEDP631 Podiatric Medicine II Letter 1.5 ORTP627 Functional Orthopedics II Letter 1.5 ORTP630 Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine Letter 0.5 PEDP633 Podopediatrics II Letter 1.5 SRGP632 Podiatric Surgery of Foot & Ankle II Letter 2.0 Total 10
GROUPS 1 & 2 MEDP705 Internal Medicine (Ambulatory) Clerkship P/F 2 MEDP706 Physical Diagnosis Clerkship P/F 1 MEDP707 Podiatric Medicine Clerkship P/F 16 MEDP708 Podiatric Imaging Clerkship P/F 4 ORTP703 Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine Clerkship P/F 2 Total 25
GROUPS 3 & 4 ORTP702 Orthopedics Clerkship P/F 6 SRGP703 Podiatric Surgery Clerkship P/F 12 PEDP704 Podopediatrics Clerkship P/F 6 Total 24
Semester VI – Spring
CHMP636 Geriatrics Letter 1 CHMP641 Topics in Health Care Delivery & Community Medicine Letter 1 MEDP635 Emergency Medicine P/F 1 MEDP637 Internal Medicine II Letter 1.5 MEDP639 Medical Imaging II Letter 1.5 ORTP634 Advanced Topics in Biomechanics and Sports Medicine Letter 2.0 SRGP638 Introduction to General Surgery Letter 1.5 SRGP640 Podiatric Surgery of Foot & Ankle III Letter 2.5 SRGP642 Traumatology Letter 1.5 Total 13.5
GROUPS 1 & 2 ORTP702 Orthopedics Clerkship P/F 6 PEDP704 Podopediatrics Clerkship P/F 6 SRGP703 Podiatric Surgery Clerkship P/F 12 Total 24
GROUPS 3 & 4 MEDP705 Internal Medicine (Ambulatory) Clerkship P/F 2 MEDP706 Physical Diagnosis Clerkship P/F 1 ORTP703 Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine Clerkship P/F 2 MEDP707 Podiatric Medicine Clerkship P/F 16 MEDP708 Podiatric Imaging Clerkship P/F 4 Total 25
CPSP700 Capstone Clinical Experience in Comp. Assessment P/F 0
75 FOURTH YEAR
Semesters VII
Course No. Course Title Grade Type Credits XTNP709 Externship Program I P/F 4 XTNP710 Externship Program II P/F 4 XTNP718 Externship Program III P/F 4 XTNP719 Externship Program IV P/F 4 XTNP720 Externship Program V P/F 4 MEDP713 Senior Imaging Clerkship P/F 1
Total 21
Semesters VIII SRGP715 Senior Surgery of Foot and Ankle P/F 4 SRGP714 General Surgery Clerkship P/F 4 MEDP711 Emergency Medicine Clerkship P/F 2 MEDP712 Internal Medicine (Inpatient) Clerkship P/F 2 ORTP717 Senior Orthopedics/Podopediatrics Clerkship P/F 4 Total 16
Note: The above courses extend through semesters VII and VIII. Registrations are allocated individually to provide each student with an even distribution of clinical rotations over the two semesters. Thus the average credit load each semester per student is 20.5 semester hours.
D.P.M. Program Total 202.5
76 The Doctor of Podiatric Medicine Curriculum
The course of study leading to the Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (D.P.M.) degree is Determining Credit Hours designed to be completed in four years. The A semester hour at NYCPM is defined by time limit for completion of the degree is six the New York State Education Department calendar years from original matriculation, as a minimum of 15 hours of instructional exclusive of approved Leaves of Absence. time in a didactic classroom setting. For example, a 1.5-credit course must include The D.P.M. curriculum is principally divided 1.5 hours of didactic classroom lectures for into Pre-Clinical (Basic) Sciences and each of 15 weeks; a 3-credit course must Clinical Sciences components, located include 3 hours of didactic classroom mainly in the first two and last two years of lectures per week for 15 weeks. In the program respectively. In addition to the laboratory and didactic clinic sessions, there Pre-Clinical and Clinical Sciences, the is a higher ratio of clock hours to credit D.P.M. curriculum includes courses hours. For example, a 2 to 3-hour laboratory designed to equip students, as future session per week for 15 weeks would be practitioners and scientists, with the allotted 1 semester hour of credit instead of knowledge and skills needed to understand 2 or 3 credits. A 3-credit course might and pursue podiatric medical research and consist of 2 hours per week of classroom publication, to practice their profession lectures for 15 weeks (accounting for 2 ethically, and to successfully address the credits) plus another 2 to 3 hours of patient relations, business and legal issues laboratory sessions per week for 15 weeks to be encountered throughout their (accounting for 1 credit hour). podiatric medical career. These additional The grading system is defined under learning experiences are offered by the Academic Standards and Guidelines in this Department of Community Health and Catalog and detailed in the Student Medicine and the Office of Research, and Handbook. are positioned appropriately for optimal integration into the overall program.
Division of Pre-Clinical Sciences Dean Eileen Daly Chusid, Ph.D. Associate Professor
The Division of Pre-Clinical Sciences First Year Courses consists of eight full-time and ten adjunct The focus of the courses taught during the faculty members, all holding academic or first year is on the normal structure and professional doctorates, or both, with function of the human body. These courses credentials and experience in the specific are: Biochemistry, Cell Biology & Histology, discipline he/she teaches. The courses General Anatomy, Immunology, provide taught during the Pre-Clinical years Introduction to Genetics, Molecular Biology provide the foundation for the students and Molecular Genetics, Neurosciences, entering the clinical years and graduates Physiology and Bacteriology. going on to post-graduate podiatric medical education, scholarly research and teaching. Second Year Courses The course offerings of Pre-Clinical Sciences Building the courses taught during the first are presented below. year, deviations from normal structure and function of the human body are presented 77 during the student’s second year. Courses Sinai will give a workshop in taking and taught are: Infectious Diseases, Pathology I interpreting pedigrees. and II, Pathophysiology and Pharmacology. Prerequisites: None An important educational component of the second year curriculum is an in-depth PCLP607--Molecular Biology and course in Lower Extremity Anatomy. Molecular Genetics Courses taught during the second year all First Year - 3 credit hours have a strong emphasis on clinical applications. Molecular Biology & Molecular Genetics is the companion course to the Biochemistry PCLP601--Biochemistry and Introduction to Genetics courses and is First Year - 5 credit hours offered in the spring semester of the first Biochemistry is the study of biological year. The Molecular Biology portion of the systems at the chemical and molecular level. course will discuss nucleotide metabolism, The course content will stress human DNA replication, RNA synthesis and biochemistry and its clinical applications. processing, protein synthesis, and Lecture topics include the chemistry and regulation of gene expression in humans. metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, Molecular biology techniques used in proteins and nucleic acids as well as a Medicine will also be discussed. The discussion of enzymes, vitamins and Molecular Genetics portion of the course hormones. The Bio-chemistry of specific will discuss the Human Genomic Project tissues will be presented and the integration and the search for genes involved in single of human biochemistry emphasized gene and common multifactorial diseases Prerequisites: None such as Types 1 and 2 Diabetes and cancer. The genetics of diseases related to Podiatric PCLP603--Introduction to Genetics Medicine such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth First Year - 2 credit hours Disease and Type 2 Diabetes will be Genetics is playing an increasingly discussed in detail. We will also describe important role in the practice of clinical techniques such as animal models and medicine including podiatric medicine and microarrays that are used to study the is now becoming a central component of function of newly identified genes. The our understanding of most major diseases. diagnosis, screening, and treatment (present Therefore, it is important for Podiatrists to and future) of genetic diseases will also be understand the principles of Human presented with emphasis on the important Genetics. “Introduction to Human role genetics may play in podiatric Genetics,” will introduce students to the medicine. basic concepts of Human Genetics, Prerequisites: PCLP601; PCLP603 including patterns of inheritance, chromosomal structure and abnormal PCLP623--Pharmacology chromosome patterns, genetic variation, Second Year – 4.5 credit hours biochemical genetics and population This course encompasses basic genetics. Students will also get practice in pharmacological principles and the various taking family histories and analyzing classes of drugs. Included is a discussion pedigrees. A genetic counselor from the on the manner in which drugs interact with Department of Genetics & Genomic biological receptors, are absorbed, Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount distributed, metabolized and excreted. Also to be discussed will be drug interactions of
78 podiatric significance. Drugs will be contributions of each system to homeostasis covered primarily on a system basis. The are emphasized, as are integration with ultimate goal is to enable the future doctor clinical conditions. The “laboratory” part of of podiatric medicine to apply the course provides 1) an introduction to a pharmacological principles to ensure the variety of clinical measurements including rational use of drugs in the therapeutic some limited hands-on skill development, setting. Emphasis will be placed on those 2) group presentations of clinical cases with agents contained in the ever-expanding physiological underpinnings and 3) several armamentarium of the modern podiatric patient/student cases for clinical problem- practitioner. solving exercises. Prerequisites: Physiology I Prerequisite: PCLP601
PCLP604—Physiology I and Lab PCLP620—Fundamentals of First Year - 3 credit hours Pathophysiology This Medical Physiology course addresses Second Year – 2.5 credit hours the functioning of the normal human body This lecture course includes eight sections: with particular consideration of clinical cardiovascular, pulmonary, endocrine, deviations from normal. The functioning of neurologic, gastrointestinal, renal, and the following systems will be covered: the hematologic pathophysiology. Each section cardiovascular, renal, respiratory, is four to six hours in duration and will gastrointestinal, nervous and endocrine present a concise discussion of material systems as well as membranes, muscle, which will help prepare students for entry bone. Regulatory mechanisms and the into the clinical years and for successful contributions of each system to homeostasis completion of the National Boards. The are emphasized, as are integration with course will provide an understanding of the clinical conditions. The “laboratory” part of basic mechanisms by which disease occurs the course provides 1) an introduction to a as well as the responses of the body to variety of clinical measurements including disease processes. some limited hands-on skill development, Prerequisites: DMETS1218; PCLP612 2) group presentations of clinical cases with Co-requisite: PCLP622 physiological underpinnings and 3) several patient/student cases for clinical problem- PCLP600--Bacteriology solving exercises. First Year - 3 credit hours Prerequisites: None Bacteriology includes the study of the physiology, biochemistry, and genetic traits PCLP609—Physiology II and Lab that contribute to human pathology. This is First Year - 5 credit hours a basic course that describes for the future This Medical Physiology course is a clinician the biochemical structure of the continuation of Physiology I. It addresses bacterial cell, its appearance, how it grows the functioning of the normal human body and carries out its genetic functions. The with particular consideration of clinical course, therefore, also includes the deviations from normal. The functioning of presentation and discussion of pathogenic the following systems will be covered: the mechanisms and bioterrorism and cardiovascular, renal, respiratory, therapeutic interventions for the treatment gastrointestinal, nervous and endocrine and prevention of infectious diseases. The systems as well as membranes, muscle, techniques by which instruments and bone. Regulatory mechanisms and the materials that come into contact with a
79 patient, especially during surgery, are PCLP610--Infectious Diseases rendered germ-free are taught. Emphasis is Second Year – 5.5 credit hours also placed on the mechanisms by which This course examines the causes, antibiotics interfere with bacterial growth. consequences and treatment of diseases The course concludes with a discussion of produced by microorganisms, bacteria, pathogenic mechanisms and bioterrorism. viruses and fungi. Characteristics of Prerequisites: None infective microbes and their nonpathogenic relatives that are associated with the human PCLP606--Immunology body, mechanisms of pathogenesis and First Year - 3 credit hours transmission, and the methods of This course will teach the composition of prevention and treatment are discussed in the immune system that consists of cells depth. Prerequisites: None and soluble components, the importance of a functioning immune system for each PCLP605--General Anatomy and Lab human being to survive in a world of First Year – 7 credit hours parasites, microbial and viral pathogens; Human gross anatomy is the study of the cooperation of the cellular and soluble structures in the body visible to the unaided components of the immune system in eye. General Anatomy is taught using a generating a local and/or systemic immune regional approach integrating the principles response; the role of associated cells in of basic anatomy, organ systems, certain responses; and the application of our radiologic/imaging anatomy, cross- understanding of the self, versus non-self, sectional anatomy, growth & development, reactions in conjunction with our ever and clinically relevant anatomy as it applies increasing knowledge of pathogen-derived to patients. The General Anatomy course molecules (antigens) in providing humans will cover both systemic and regional with vaccines that help to protect against anatomy of the whole body, but will not previously lethal infectious diseases. include the lower extremity (as that is Prerequisites: None covered in a separate course). Development (embryology/fetology) is incorporated PCLP602—Cell Biology and Histology throughout the course and may include the with Lab First Year – 5 credit hours study of congenital malformations. In this course, the microscopic and ultra- Lectures will include imaging (radiology, structural features of cells, intercellular CT, MRI, cross-section views, etc.) and will components, tissues, organs and organ be correlated with the dissections taking systems are taught in both lecture and place in the Anatomy Laboratory. Tests will laboratory sessions. The structural involve multiple choice style questions, and organization of the body is related to the may include vignette-style items with functional histophysiology of the different clinical scenarios. Prerequisites: None organs. This course of study provides the student with an understanding of cell and PCLP608--Neuroscience organ function and gives a firm foundation First Year - 3 credit hours for more advanced coursework in the The course integrates the anatomy of the curriculum particularly pathology and central and peripheral nervous systems pathophysiology. with their functions. The course will Prerequisites: None include studies of the major anatomical structures of the brain, spinal column and peripheral nerves, the subdivisions of the
80 central and peripheral nervous systems and entities are presented in relation to their interconnections, neural transmission, anatomical structures. Podiatric and the major pathways within the central applications from cases appearing in the and peripheral nervous systems which teaching clinic are presented by clinical modulate or control sensory and motor faculty. processes. Therefore, emphasis will be Prerequisite: PCLP605 placed on the link between neuroanatomical material presented in lectures and specific PCLP612—Pathology I and Lab: General known functions of the nervous system. Pathology Lesions of the central and peripheral Second Year- 4 credit hours nervous systems will be discussed This is a comprehensive lecture and emphasizing resulting physical deficits. laboratory course consisting of didactic Prerequisites: PCLP602 lectures covering the basic concepts of abnormal cellular mechanisms that lead to PCLP611--Lower Extremity Anatomy and disease. Topics to be covered include cell Lab injury, inflammation, repair and Second Year- 7.5 credit hours regeneration, neoplasia, environmental and This course presents in comprehensive nutritional pathology, immunopathology detail, the gross anatomical foundation of and infectious and parasitic diseases. The podiatric medicine. A fully integrated lectures will be supplemented by laboratory lecture and laboratory regional anatomy of exercises. Specific diseases and their effects the lower limb is presented from structural, on organs and organ systems will be functional and clinical viewpoints. covered in systemic pathology. Lectures and dissections are closely Prerequisite: PCLP602 integrated to encourage the student to develop a three-dimensional visualization PCLP622—Pathology II: Systemic of the lower extremity in the basic Pathology understanding of the lower limbs as the Second Year- 4 credit hours organ of human gait. Topics that are This course will follow the General covered include osteology and soft tissue Pathology course and will consist of a series anatomical relationships and functions, of didactic lectures covering specific cross-sectional anatomy, anatomical diseases and their pathologic consequences. imaging and clinical applications. In Each system will be discussed including addition to lectures, video films will be cardiovascular, respiratory gastrointestinal, shown on clinical procedures and on renal urinary, hematology, endocrine and dissection of the lower extremity. reproductive systems. Anatomical relationships of structures are Prerequisite: PCLP612 emphasized and more than 45 clinical
81 Division of Clinical Education
Dean of Clinical Education Ronald Soave, D.P.M. Professor
The Division of Clinical Education provides for the full development of clinical knowledge and skills needed in the education for the Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree. Didactic classroom and laboratory learning, hospital rotations, clinical clerkships and externships expose students to every aspect of podiatric practice with real patients. The Division encompasses the Departments of Podiatric Medicine, including sections of Radiology and Wound Care Clinic, Orthopedic/Pediatric Sciences, Surgery, and Community Health and Medicine.
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL SCIENCES Chair Samuel Adegboyega, D.P.M. Associate Professor and Chair Sections: RADIOLOGY Samuel Adegboyega, D.P.M. Associate Professor and Director
WOUND CARE CLINIC Sharon Barlizo, D.P.M. Professor and Director Michael Rothstein, NP clinical skills. Feedback from the SP will be MEDP613—Physical Assessment and Lab given to the student. Second Year – 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Completion of Semesters I-II This course will provide the skills necessary for history taking and performance of a MEDP622--Dermatology comprehensive physical examination. At Second Year - 2 credit hours the completion of this course, the student This team taught course consists of a should be able to interview a patient comprehensive review of dermatology with acquiring as much information as possible emphasis on those conditions affecting the related to the patient’s illness. In addition, lower extremity. Topics included are: the the student should be able to perform the structure and function of skin; clinical cardinal principles of physical examination: evaluation of the skin; histopathology of the inspection, palpation, percussion and skin; dermatologic procedures and auscultation. The laboratory component of laboratory studies; microbiological diseases; the course utilizes a classic systems-oriented dermatoses; cutaneous manifestations of approach which includes examination of systemic disease; cutaneous tumors; the eyes, ears, nose, throat, neck, heart, pigmentary disorders; nail, hair, and sweat lungs and abdomen. In addition to a gland disorders. written final examination, at the conclusion Prerequisite: Completion of Semesters I-II of the course, there will be a standardized patient (SP) assessment of the student’s
82 MEDP623--Neurology disorders and the pedal manifestations of Second Year - 1 credit hour systemic diseases. An introduction to the basic principles of Prerequisites are the successful completion neurology including the neurological exam, of all courses in the Division of Basic clinical myopathies, neuropathies, Sciences in addition to the successful radiculopathies, pain syndromes, completion of the following: Clinical extrapyramidal syndromes, cerebellar Pharmacology, Combined Clinical Skills, disorders, disorders of gait, diseases of the Dermatology, Neurology, and Physical spinal cord, nerve conduction studies, Assessment/Lab. E.M.G’S, epilepsy, disorders of the brain, The course, presented in lecture format, is brainstem and cranial nerves, infectious divided into distinct blocks addressing diseases and psychiatric principles. This Diabetes, Infection and Wound Care, course requires a comprehensive Arthritides, Skin Manifestations of Systemic understanding of neurosciences presently in Disease in the Lower Extremity and anatomy, physiology and neuroscience Peripheral Vascular Disease lecture and lab, and prepares the student for Prerequisite: MEDP625 the clinical experience. Prerequisite: Completion of Semesters I-II MEDP629--Internal Medicine I Third Year – 2 credit hours MEDP700—Combined Clinical Skills This course will cover the general principles Second Year – 4 credit hours of internal medicine and diseases of body This multidisciplinary course is intended to systems; Cardiology, Peripheral Vascular provide the fourth semester student with Diseases, Hematology, Gastroenterology, the knowledge and skills necessary for Endocrinology, Pulmonary Medicine, entry into clinical rotations. The material is Musculoskeletal disorders, Nephrology, presented in lecture and small group Psychiatry, Men and Women’s Health, and instruction/performance formats. Geriatric Medicine. Each system studied Prerequisites; MEDP622, MEDP623, PCLP620 requires a fundamental understanding of the anatomy, physiology, histology and MEDP625 —Podiatric Medicine I biochemistry related to the various Second Year – 2.5 credit hours pathologies. Various Physicians from This course, team taught in lecture format, metropolitan hospital will present the is designed to prepare and introduce the lectures. They will also emphasize on the student for the study of Podiatric Medicine demographics, and statistics that closely and patient care. The course material is relate to our community of the various presented in two blocks – common office system diseases. problems and a systems approach to Physiology, histology and pathology. diagnosis. Prerequisites: MEDP613; PCLP620 Prerequisites: MEDP622, MEDP623, PCLP620 MEDP638 --Internal Medicine II Third Year – 1.5 credit hours MEDP631—Podiatric Medicine II Building upon the knowledge learned in Third Year – 1.5 credit hours Internal Medicine I, this course will cover This course, a continuation of Podiatric the general principles of internal medicine Medicine I, is designed to provide the and diseases of body systems; Cardiology, student with information necessary to Peripheral Vascular Diseases, evaluate, diagnose, and treat local foot Hematology, Gastroenterology,
83 Endocrinology, Pulmonary Medicine, Prerequisites: Completion of second year Musculoskeletal disorders, Nephrology, curriculum; enrollment in Semester V didactic Psychiatry, Men and Women’s Health, and coursework. Geriatric Medicine. Each system studied requires a fundamental understanding of MEDP635 --Emergency Medicine the anatomy, physiology, histology and Third Year – 1 credit hour biochemistry related to the various A nine-hour lecture series stressing pathologies. Various Physicians from fundamental principles regarding the triage metropolitan hospital will present the assessment, resuscitation and treatment of lectures. They will also emphasize on the emergency patients. The course is taught demographics, and statistics that closely by residency trained emergency medicine relate to our community of the various specialists. system diseases. Prerequisites: Completion of second year Prerequisites: MEDP613; PCLP620 curriculum; enrollment in Semester V didactic coursework. MEDP707 --Podiatric Medicine Clerkship Prerequisite: Completion of second year Third Year - 16 credit hours curriculum. The Podiatric Medicine Clerkship is a 16- week rotation through various subspecialty MEDP803 --Emergency Medicine divisions (each student under the tutelage Clerkship of a clinician in his/her academic practice Fourth Year - 2 credit hours setting), through affiliated hospital clinics The Emergency Medicine hospital rotation (including a gerontology sub-clerkship), consists of classroom and emergency affiliated hospital inpatient wards (as a department experiences mentored by hospitalist sub-clerkship, including rotation emergency room attending physicians, through the Mount Sinai Endovascular residents and interns. Day, overnight, and Laboratory). The Podiatric Medicine weekend shifts, as well as mandatory Clerkship also includes weekly Friday didactic conferences, are typically required. programs consisting of journal article This clerkship builds on the third-year review, case challenge, and clinical Emergency Medicine course. workshops. Prerequisite: Completion of third year Prerequisites: Completion of second year curriculum and promotion to fourth year. curriculum; enrollment in Semester V didactic Prerequisite: Completion of third year coursework. curriculum and promotion to fourth year.
MEDP706 --Physical Diagnosis Clerkship MEDP705 --Internal Medicine Third Year - 1 credit hour (Ambulatory) Clerkship Third Year - 2 credit hours During this mixed During this hospital/clinic clerkship, the laboratory/outpatient/hospital rotation, the podiatric medical student will become an podiatric medical student will gain internal medicine student and will be under experience in performing a comprehensive the direction of the Department of history and physical examinations under Medicine. The primary goal is to become the direct tutelage of a physician preceptor. acquainted with the ambulatory Prerequisites: Completion of second year management of common internal medicine curriculum; enrollment in Semester V diseases/disorders. The student will be didactic coursework. directly taught and supervised by the
84 attending physician and/or resident. At the extremities. Diagnostic imaging such as end of the clerkship, the student will be ultrasound, nuclear medicine, C.T., and expected to be able to perform a complete MRI are discussed and reviewed. history and physical examination and Prerequisites: Completion of second year participate in the ambulatory medical care curriculum; enrollment in Semester V of a given patient. In addition, the student is didactic coursework. expected to attend all lectures and activities Prerequisites: Completion of second year scheduled by the Department of Medicine. curriculum; enrollment in Semester V didactic For the duration of this clerkship, students coursework are assigned to Medicine clinics only. Prerequisites: Completion of second year curriculum MEDP630 —Medical Imaging I Third Year – 1 credit hour MEDP804 --Internal Medicine (Inpatient) This program of study, given in the third Clerkship year, addresses the assessment of a patient Fourth Year - 2 credit hours in normal health or one with a traumatic, During this hospital clerkship, the podiatric metabolic, degenerative or neoplastic medical student will become an internal disorder through one or more medical medicine student and will be under the imaging techniques. Specifically, the course direction of the Department of Medicine. will rely on the presentation of plain film When possible, the student will be assigned radiographs, sonography, computerized a medicine patient who has been admitted tomography (CT), magnetic resonance for a podiatric problem (e.g., diabetic foot imaging (MRI), and nuclear medicine. complication). The student will be directly This course also provides the student with a taught and supervised by the attending basic working knowledge of general physician and assigned a resident or intern. radiology to assist the student in At the end of the clerkship, the student will assimilating into the hospital environment. be expected to be able to perform a Lectures consist of medical images with an complete history and physical examination emphasis on normal head, neck, chest, and participate in the care of an admitted abdomen, bowel and breast radiology as podiatric patient. In addition, the student is well as basic pathology. The student will expected to attend all lectures and activities become familiar with normal anatomic scheduled by the Department of Medicine. structures and positions; become For the duration of this clerkship, students acquainted with imaging views; be able to are assigned to inpatient Medicine wards differentiate different contrasts on medical (inpatient component). images and their significance; become Prerequisites: Completion of second year familiar with special diagnostic tests and be curriculum; able to recognize basic pathologies using various medical images. Prerequisite: RADIOLOGY COURSES Completion of second year curriculum
MEDP708 --Podiatric Imaging Clerkship Third Year - 4 credit hours MEDP640 —Medical Imaging II This course in clinical rotation is a four- Third Year – 1.5 credit hours week clerkship in which the student is This program of study, given in the third afforded the opportunity to take, process year, builds upon the knowledge learned in and interpret radiographs of the lower Medical Imaging I and addresses the
85 assessment of a patient in normal health or senior student with an opportunity one with a traumatic, metabolic, to refine their skills in podiatric degenerative or neoplastic disorder through diagnostic imaging, with an one or more medical imaging techniques. emphasis on radiographs, radiation Specifically, the course will rely on the safety, CT, MRI, diagnostic US, and presentation of plain film radiographs, nuclear medicine imaging sonography, computerized tomography modalities. Specific topics to be (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), covered are listed below under the and nuclear medicine. heading “Clerkship Topics”. Upon reviewing the required educational This course also provides the student with a material, students will have four basic working knowledge of general weeks to complete and pass the radiology to assist the student in comprehensive online assessment. assimilating into the hospital environment. Prerequisite: Completion of third year Lectures consist of medical images with an curriculum and promotion to fourth emphasis on normal head, neck, chest, year abdomen, bowel and breast radiology as well as basic pathology. The student will become familiar with normal anatomic structures and positions; become acquainted with imaging views; be able to differentiate different contrasts on medical images and their significance; become familiar with special diagnostic tests and be able to recognize basic pathologies using various medical images. Prerequisite: Completion of second year curriculum
MEDP805 --Senior Imaging Clerkship Fourth Year - 1credit hour This a month long online, remote- learning clerkship provides the
86 DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPEDICS AND PEDIATRICS Chair Loretta Logan, D.P.M., M.P.H. Associate Professor
ORTP617--Biomechanics office, clinic or hospital setting. It will Second Year – 1.5 credit hour include an extensive examination of The Biomechanics course introduces the methods, materials and skills. student to physical and mechanical Therapeutic program development and principles as applied to the development treatment of patients will also be covered. and function of the lower extremity. The Prerequisite: ORTP619 areas of study include force vectors, stress, strain and biomechanics of bone, ligaments, ORTP627--Functional Orthopedics II tendon muscle and cartilage. Emphasis is Third Year – 1.5 credit hours placed on the functional anatomy and Functional Orthopedics II examines, in biomechanics of the spine and lower depth, the developmental and congenital extremity. The course also touches on problems of the musculoskeletal system of diseases of the Spine, hip, knee, and ankle. the lower extremity including their In addition, students will be introduced to recognition, classification, and treatment. materials used in the construction of The student is taught to correlate gait, the orthoses. static examination, and X-ray findings to Prerequisite: PCLP611 gain an understanding of abnormal function. Interpretation of joint ORTP619--Functional Orthopedics I examination results and treatment based on Second Year – 2.5 credit hours these results are covered in detail. This Functional Orthopedics I is an introductory course will also expand on the students’ course designed to give the student a knowledge of materials and characteristics comprehensive understanding of normal of the materials used in manufacturing mechanical function of the foot and leg. orthoses. It will go into detail about the use Body planes, joint dynamics and axis of orthoses in the treatment of lower orientation and the structure and function extremity musculoskeletal pathology. In of each of the major foot and ankle joints addition, the anatomy of the shoe and will be taught in detail. By emphasizing various internal and external shoe concept and theory the course will lay the modifications will be presented and groundwork for pathomechanics, discussed. diagnostics and management techniques Prerequisite: ORTP619 which follow in later courses. Prerequisite: PCLP611 ORTP702--Orthopedics Clerkship Third Year - 6 credit hours ORTP630--Physical and Rehabilitation The Orthopedics Clerkship is completed as Medicine part of the Orthopedics/Pediatrics rotation. Third Year – 0.5 credit hour The objectives of this clerkship are to The Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine reinforce the concepts and techniques course will consist of a comprehensive taught in the preparatory didactic courses study of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation in orthopedic sciences as well as to as it pertains to Podiatric Medicine in an transform and apply this knowledge in a
87 clinical environment. Students will be disorders. Students review modalities and engaged in the supervised evaluation and procedures that are taught in the classroom treatment of adult patients with lower and under direct supervision receive hands- extremity orthopedic, biomechanical and on experience in providing patient care postural pathology. Students are also taught utilizing these modalities. the methods of fabricating and modifying Prerequisites: Completion of second year foot orthoses. Advanced orthopedic curriculum; enrollment in Semester V didactic evaluation techniques including slow coursework motion video and computerized gait analysis are utilized in this rotation. PEDP624--Podopediatrics I Outside rotations include a visit to a Second Year – 1.5 credit hours pedorthic facility and an orthotics and Podopediatrics I is designed to provide the prosthetics lab. student with the basic foundation necessary Prerequisites: Completion of second year for success in the clinical evaluation and curriculum; enrollment in Semester V didactic management of the pediatric patient with coursework lower extremity concerns. Normal and developmental assessment of the pediatric ORTP634—Advanced Topics in patient is emphasized. An introduction to Biomechanics and Sports Medicine lower extremity congenital abnormalities Third Year – 2 credit hours and common pathologies is provided. This course is an interactive, literature-based Diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for experience meant to create practical links evaluation and treatment of lower extremity between biomechanical / patho-mechanical pathologies are outlined. Problem-based theory and clinical experiences. The course learning tools are incorporated into the is meant to provide the maturing 3rd year lecture format, where appropriate. student with an opportunity to integrate Prerequisite: PCLP611 previous material relating to anatomy, physiology and orthopedic sciences into PEDP633--Podopediatrics II diagnosis-specific lectures and assignments. Third Year – 1.5 credit hours The goal of the course is to focus on the Podopediatrics II is an advanced course assessment, differential diagnoses, and which emphasizes methods of evaluation, treatment strategies for the most common assessment and treatment of lower orthopedic-podiatric medical complaints. extremity pathology in the pediatric patient. Emphasis will be on the clinical The course reviews the developmental manifestations of disease and practical levels of the normal child and discusses, in management of the patient including the detail, the medical, orthopedic and therapeutic orthosis prescription. Discussion neurologic disorders affecting the child’s of “best practices” in orthopedic and sports lower extremity. Abnormalities of gait are medicine and problem solving shall discussed as well. Management plans for dominate the sessions. pediatric lower extremity conditions will be Prerequisite: ORTP627 included. Prerequisite: PEDP624 ORTP703--Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Clerkship PEDP704—Podopediatrics Clerkship Third Year - 2 credit hours Third Year - 6 credit hours During the Physical and Rehabilitation The Podopediatrics Clerkship is completed Medicine Clerkship the student utilizes the as part of the Orthopedics/Pediatrics modalities of physiotherapy in the rotation during which the student is treatment of both acute and chronic afforded the opportunity to evaluate,
88 diagnose and treat a myriad of lower experience for the senior who is in the midst extremity pathologies in children. The of concurrent medical and surgical training clerkship is designed as the clinical environments. This problem-based component of the Podopediatrics II didactic experience will focus on core skills: course. Students will frequently encounter assessment of musculoskeletal deformity, the normal lower extremity in various casting for orthoses, gait examination and stages of development and will develop independent development of management skills in differentiating the normal from the strategies for adults and children that will abnormal. Students will also have the complement the balance of the senior year, opportunity to prescribe and apply state-of- and residency curriculum. the-art treatments for lower extremity Prerequisites: completion of all semester V pathology in children. Finally, students will Didactic courses and clerkships in the learn to evaluate the well-health status of a Department of Orthopedics and Pediatrics. child and make referrals for general medical and proximal lower extremity pathology where appropriate.
Prerequisites: Completion of second year curriculum; enrollment in Semester V didactic coursework
ORTP717-- Sr. Orthopedics/ Podopediatrics Clerkship Fourth Year – 4 Credit hours This one month clinical clerkship is the final segment of training in the orthopedics /pediatrics curriculum and is meant to provide a focused and independent
89 DEPARTMENT OF SURGICAL SCIENCES Chair Kevin T. Jules, D.P.M. Professor
The Department of Surgical Sciences is The mission of the Department is to responsible for teaching didactic knowledge produce an entry level Doctor of Podiatric of a surgical nature. Department members Medicine, who has attained a firm also provide surgical care for the patients of understanding of the surgical procedures the Foot Center of New York, affiliated utilized to treat deformities and afflictions hospitals, with the responsibility for clinical of the foot and ankle. The graduating surgical education of the students, residents Doctor of Podiatric Medicine will have and post-doctoral fellows who rotate attained competency in Operating Room through the Department. In addition, (OR) protocol and sterile technique and be faculty members of the Department prepared for a post-graduate training participate in college-sponsored Continuing program. Medical Education Seminars and conducting research of a surgical nature.
SRGP616--Anesthesiology usual standards of care and practice Second Year - 2 credit hours guidelines utilized in surgical procedures to This course introduces the student to the treat pathologies of the fore and mid foot. principles, indications and techniques of Lectures will stress definition, evaluation general, spinal, epidural, regional and local and rationale for surgical procedures. At anesthesia. General anesthesia focuses on the completion of the course, the student the pharmacology of general anesthetics, will have gained the knowledge and drug interactions as well as techniques of understanding of podiatric surgical intubation, ventilation and fluid principle and techniques related to the fore replacement. The indications and and mid foot. In addition, this course will techniques for spinal and epidural prepare the second-year student for the anesthesia as it relates to lower extremity third-year clinical rotation. Surgery, are emphasized, as well as Prerequisite: PCLP6118; Co-requisite: problems, complications, and general ORTP617 anesthesia for the pediatric and geriatric patient. Regional and local anesthesia SRGP632-Podiatric Surgery of Foot and involves a series of lectures that emphasize Ankle II the pharmacology of local anesthetic agents, Third Year – 2 credit hours and specific techniques for utilization of This third year podiatric foot and ankle local anesthetic blocks for foot and ankle course will consist of weekly lectures on the surgery. usual standards of care and practice Prerequisites: None; Co-requisite: PCLP623 guidelines utilized in surgical procedures to treat pathologies of the midfoot, hindfoot SRGP626—Podiatric Surgery of the Foot and ankle. The student will be given formal and Ankle I didactic lectures that will stress definition, Second Year – 2 credit hours evaluation and rationale for surgical The second year podiatric foot and ankle procedures. At the completion of this course will consist of weekly lectures on the course, the podiatric medical student will
90 understanding of podiatric surgical SRGP638--Introduction to General principles and techniques related to the Surgery midfoot, hindfoot and ankle. In addition Third Year – 1.5 credit hours this course and lecture series will enhance This course is designed to introduce the the third year student’s ability at clinical student to the basic principles of vascular problem solving. and general surgery, as well as a systematic Prerequisite: SRGP626 review of pathologic conditions which may require vascular or general surgery. The SRGP640-Pod Surgery of Foot & Ankle III course will consist of a series of lectures that Third Year – 2.5 credit hours will focus on disease entities that are Podiatric surgery III is a third year course evaluated and surgically managed by that consists of weekly didactic lectures that vascular and general surgeons. involve the evaluation and surgical Prerequisites: DMORP1317; DMETS1218 management of hind foot and ankle disorders than involve reconstruction. The SRGP-642--Traumatology course will provide didactic knowledge in Third Year – 1.5 credit hours combination with clinical problem solving. This course is designed to give the third The objective will be to prepare the student year students an intense and in depth for advanced externships and clinical lecture series in all areas of foot and ankle training. trauma. The didactic lecture series involves participation by affiliated faculty and NYCPM faculty who are Podiatric trauma SRGP703--Podiatric Surgery Clerkship experts. The course is comprehensive and Third Year – 12 credit hours includes all types of soft tissues and osseous trauma. This course is a 13-week clinical rotation Prerequisite: PCLP611 which provides the student with exposure to and experience in treating pathology of SRGP714--General Surgery Clinical the foot and ankle. During the rotation, the Clerkship student will also observe surgical Fourth Year - 4 credit hours procedures; participate in operating room During this external hospital rotation, the set-up, O.R. protocol and sterile technique. podiatric medical student will become a The student will also participate in weekly general surgery student and will be under journal clubs and review articles of a the direction of the academic requirements surgical nature that reinforce the principles of any general surgery department. The of evidence based medicine. The student student is expected to perform and fulfill all will also gain some practical experience in the activities of the surgery student. suturing and surgical procedures in the Activities will include morning rounds, pre- anatomy lab. Prerequisites: Completion of second year operative management, observer or curriculum; enrollment in Semester V didactic assistant in surgeries, floor duties, clinic coursework duties and assisting his/her assigned resident. In addition, the student will attend all lectures given by the Department of Surgery. Prerequisite: Completion of third year curriculum and promotion to fourth year
91 SRGP715—Senior Surgery of the Foot and previously assigned topic. The senior Ankle student will be able to keep abreast of Fourth Year – 4 credit hours current topics and trends in the Surgical Senior Block consists of a month medical/surgical literature and reinforce long clinical rotation for the purpose of the principles of evidence based medicine. applying previously learned academic Prerequisite: SRGP640 knowledge to the treatment of the podiatric surgical patient. The students will DSURG345E — Forefoot Cadaver surgery participate in the podiatric surgical clinics at Second Year – 1.5 credit hours The Foot Center of New York and affiliated This elective course will provide students hospitals. The student evaluates, initiates, hands on experience performing common and participates in the care of the patient forefoot surgical procedures for digital under the auspices of the attending deformity, lesser metatarsal disorders and podiatric surgeon. The student’s practical first ray pathology. Students will have a experience is supplemented with a podiatric general overview of the indications for the surgical hospital rotation, in-patient forefoot surgical procedures and then will be management, case presentation, and journal provided a demonstration of the surgical club. procedures. They will then perform the surgical procedures under direct supervision The Journal Club is a weekly session of the surgical faculty. designed to enable the senior student to review and present current articles on a
92 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH AND MEDICINE Chair Anthony Iorio, D.P.M., M.P.H. Professor
Community Health and Medicine addresses itself to the resolution of many of the most pressing health and medical needs requiring a complex interaction of a variety of health and social welfare activities that are present in the community. The courses are directed toward the development of the student's understanding of the role of the practitioner-podiatrist in this interaction which provides the basis for general prevention of the diseases to improve the quality of life in the community. Attention is given to ethical considerations relative to the podiatrist’s dealings with patients, their families, other professionals, and various agencies.
CHMP615—Research Methodology and Epidemiology CHMP614— Medical Ethics and the Art of Second Year- Semester 3 – 2 credit hours Doctoring Students will be introduced to the concept First year Semester 2 – 1.5 credit hours of evidence-based medicine as outcomes of This course is intended to prepare the clinical research. Students will learn proper second-year student to become a doctor programs for searching medical literature who cares, teaches, counsels, and conducts and develop the ability to critically evaluate the art of healing in an ethical manner. clinical research publications by developing Philosophical and social values from the necessary appraisal skills within the different frames of reference will be structural framework of the fundamental compared. Case-based examination of principles of epidemiology and statistics. various ethical dilemmas will challenge and Critical reading of relevant clinical research help the student develop an understanding papers will be emphasized through reading of ethical principles. The course is also assignments and didactic sessions. An intended to give the student an overall overview of proper clinical study design review of English grammar, speech and will be taught including fundamental writing skills to promote excellence in principles of statistics. medical communication. Prerequisites: None Clinical epidemiology aims to apply the principles of the distribution and determinants of health related states and CHMP641—Topics in Health Care events in specified populations and Delivery and Community Medicine applying this knowledge to the prevention Third Year Semester 4 – 1.0 credit hour and control of health problems. This course provides an overview of the health care system and characteristics of Students will be introduced to the scientific health services utilization in the United foundation, methods, applications and States, public health resources, and practice of epidemiology in public health epidemiology, as well as assessment and and clinical settings. regulation of health care system Prerequisites: None performance. It also examines the business and legal aspects of health care and podiatric medical practice in malpractice,
93 informed consent, confidentiality, and CHMP636--Geriatrics physician/attorney particular, including Third Year Semester 4 – 1.0 credit hour podiatric relationship, government The Geriatrics course will provide the regulations and podiatric practice student with the foundation needed to management. provide competent, compassionate care to Prerequisite: Completion of second year the older patient. It will outline the curriculum attitudes, knowledge and skills required for successful care of older people. It will also provide the knowledge needed to recognize and address the special issues affecting the elderly.
94 DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH Director, Institutional Research Eileen Daly Chusid, Ph.D. Associate Professor
The Office of Research coordinates all of the The College, under the auspices of the research programs within the New York Research Department has an Institutional College of Podiatric Medicine. This includes Review Board that ensures compliance with soliciting grant funding from government all of the regulations and guidelines of the and industry sources in order to provide United States Food and Drug research opportunities to students and Administration. The Institutional Review faculty and provide patients with access to Board reviews clinical research studies to state of the art treatment modalities. insure that the rights and safety of all study volunteers are adequately protected. The department encourages projects that not only serve to increase knowledge in the The Committee on Scientific Integrity general field of medicine, with special investigates any complaints of alleged emphasis in those areas that affect the lower misconduct in research, and recommends limb including diseases such as diabetes, actions if it is determined that misconduct peripheral vascular diseases, biomechanical has occurred. disorders, genetic diseases, and tumors. To this end, the faculty in the Research The Department of Research and the Department assists faculty in the Department of Community Health and preparation of grant applications and Medicine co-present the following course: provides education in the protection of study volunteers in research. CHMP615—Research Methodology and Epidemiology During the freshman year, the staff co- Second Year - 2 credit hours presents an interdisciplinary course in (See course description under the research methodology and epidemiology, in Department of Community Health & which the students, aided by clinical and Medicine). pre-clinical advisors, are taught the skills required to evaluate medical literature, Third Year Practical research Project and apply principles of evidence based medicine Poster to the practice of podiatric medicine and an Third Year - 0 credit hours introduction to the concepts of Good This is a required student group research Clinical Practices and the ethical issues project in the third year which under the surrounding studies involving human mentorship of a faculty advisor results in volunteers. Students are encouraged to training podiatric medical students in the participate in research under the guidance preparation and production of a peer of a faculty mentor. reviewed scientific poster leading to its presentation.
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The F-Scan® measurement system is used in gait analysis and research on the effectiveness of interventions.
96 INTERDEPARTMENTAL CLINICAL ASSESSMENT
DCLNS6000— Capstone Comprehensive focuses on demonstration of Clinical Assessment communication/ interview skills, manual Third Year – 0 credit hour skills, clinical problem solving, and This segment of junior-year assessment communication of findings, diagnoses and follows the development and acceptance of recommendations. The note writing portion uniform standards of competence for of the assessment allows the student the graduating podiatrists as well as new trends opportunity to demonstrate the ability to in national board examination accurately and appropriately record the development. details of the SP encounter
The Capstone assessment event consists of 3 These assessments not only help prepare components: a composite written exam in the junior student for national Board core clinical disciplines, live standardized examinations given in the senior year, but patient (SP) encounters, and medical note constitute a valuable self-assessment writing. The student is expected to exhibit opportunity prior to the student moving on understanding, integration, and mastery of to external senior clerkship experiences. As the sum of didactic experiences of the such, it is required that students previous 3 years of training within the successfully complete this experience in written exam. The practical examination order to be promoted to the senior year. and interaction with standardized patients
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
The Academic Department of Orthopedic knee, are critical areas for this integration. Surgery seeks to promote, in the training of Collaborative research should be jointly Podiatric medical students, a broad undertaken by podiatric students and understanding of the lower extremity as the researchers grounded in orthopedics. combined province of structure, function Podiatric practice increasingly includes and treatment options. In conjunction with attention to athletics, whether in treating orthopedics, DPMs in training should be the professional athlete or the average educated to become full partners with person whose activities include walking, orthopedic providers. Thus podiatric running, and jogging. Podiatrists must be students must understand orthopedic cognizant of the physical demands of these surgical procedures, and must also be activities, and the related hazards and trained in adjunct procedures, in order to injuries. Safe and efficient specific sports develop expertise in foot mechanics and training, conditioning and preventive biomechanics. The goal is to develop the training/conditioning will follow, to ability not only to perform lower extremity everyone's benefit. surgery, but also to fully treat the patient before and after surgery. The Department provides instruction in contemporary concepts in orthopedic Lower extremity function, including that of surgery both in CME programs and within the lower leg, hip, lumbosacral spine and the DPM program.
97 JUNIOR AND SENIOR STUDENT CLERKSHIPS
The curriculum in Clinical Sciences area hospitals. The affiliated hospitals described in the preceding pages includes a utilized for each clerkship rotation are listed number of clinical clerkships carried out at below.
AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS FOR STUDENT CLERKSHIPS
HOSPITALS CLERKSHIP ROTATION Junior Students Metropolitan Hospital Physical Diagnosis Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center Podiatric surgery Nassau University Medical Center Wound Care Harlem Hospital Podiatric and General Radiology Foot Center of New York Podo-Pediatrics Non- Operative Orthopedics In-Patient / Hospitalist Rounds Senior Students
Harlem Hospital St Barnabas Hospital, Bronx Emergency Medicine Nassau University Medical Center Metropolitan Hospital Center
St Barnabas Hospital, Bronx Metropolitan Hospital General Surgery Nassau University Medical Center Lincoln Medical And Mental Health Center
Foot Center of New York
Metropolitan Hospital Lincoln Medical And Mental Health Center Podiatric Surgery Harlem Hospital Center Nassau University Medical Center
Metropolitan Hospital Internal Medicine Morrisania and Belvis Medical Centers Nassau University Medical Center
98 International Clerkship Dean of Clinical Education Ronald Soave, D.P.M.
The College is committed to providing and clinical skills which each practitioner clinical and academic experiences to currently possesses. Each month-long currently enrolled or graduate foot health clerkship shall be designed to enhance the practitioners whose training is being or was skill level of the individual in appropriate conducted outside the United States. The office, clinic and/or hospital settings based purpose of these clerkships shall be to on mutually agreed goals and objectives. enhance, reinforce or update the academic
Visiting Student Clinical Elective I DOXTN541E Visiting Student Clinical Elective II DOXTN542E Visiting Student Clinical Elective III DOXTN543E Visiting Student Clinical Elective IV DOXTN544E Visiting Student Clinical Elective V DOXTN545E Visiting Student Clinical Elective VI DOXTN546E
Participants will be subject to assessment of The participant who meets the minimum tuition which shall be invoiced to them upon requirements for the clerkship shall be arrival, and will be solely responsible for all eligible to receive a certificate indicating costs associated with their visit including his/her participation in the clerkship housing and transportation. experience, but shall not be provided documentation attesting to individual The proposed course of study shall be competence, capacity, skill or eligibility to supervised by the Dean of Clinical or for any third party administered Education who shall confer with the examination or registration process. appropriate Chairs/Site Directors in determining the availability, All participants must meet at their own appropriateness, content and scheduling of expense, current requirements for student each designed clerkship. clinical rotation(s) which include:
▪ Health insurance- proof of coverage must be provided. ▪ A personal criminal background check must be performed with the College identified as the primary recipient of the report. ▪ Health clearance- All currently enforced titers, vaccinations etc. as per matriculant student rotators.
99 EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
Dean, of Clinical Education Ronald L. Soave, D.P.M.
The External Programs of the New York College faculty. Each program is designed College of Podiatric Medicine provide to expand the knowledge of the seniors in senior students with the opportunity to office, clinic or hospital settings. Generally, augment academic knowledge and practical programs are of four weeks duration, for a training skills, under supervision of total of TWENTY weeks: directors, who are adjunct members of the
DOXTN5401 Externship Program I 4 credit hours DOXTN5402 Externship Program II 4 credit hours DOXTN5403 Externship Program III 4 credit hours DOXTN5404 Externship Program IV 4 credit hours DOX TN5405 Externship Program V 4 credit hours
evaluations, and other indicators of performance. Additional information and a manual detailing participating College-affiliated externship programs, hospitals, practitioners and podiatrists on staff may be DOXTN5500—Postgraduate Externship obtained from the Office of the Dean of in Podiatric Medicine Clinical Education at (212) 410-8480 and within the College intranet under Postgraduate Level—4 credit hours “Clerkship Manual”. Participating This experience is designed to provide recent locations are noted within. Selection of (within 24 months) NYCPM graduates the external programs is coordinated through opportunity to enhance their knowledge and CASPR offices- CASPRcrip.org and through clinical skills in appropriate office, clinic the application portal DPMClerkships.org. and/or hospital settings under the supervision The Dean of Clinical Education provides of program directors who are adjunct junior students personal consultation and members of the College faculty. Each recommendations throughout the externship, 4 or more weeks in length, in application and acceptance process and which full attendance is mandatory, carries a coordinates the conduct and assessment of value of 4 credit hours and when successfully students on these rotations. completed will be recorded on the individual’s NYCPM transcript. Prospective externs must 1. It should be noted that individual formally apply and be accepted to enroll, with extern sites have the right to no guarantee that doing so will promptly determine entry requirements for result in placement. their program(s); The following standards shall apply to those 2. The College reserves the right to seeking enrollment into this post graduate determine individual student experience. eligibility for attendance based on • Applicants must present documentation academic standing, clinical that they meet the same health standards as
100 all NYCPM students, including annual externship, be evaluated by the program physical exam and required immunizations. director, and complete an evaluation of the • Applicants must present proof of the same externship. or higher level of health insurance as that specified for all NYCPM students, in effect Externship Sites throughout the period of the externship. The following list of externship sites is accurate at the time of publication, and is Externs must minimally log 25 clinical subject to change. experiences on Meditrek during the
LIST OF EXTERNSHIP SITES AND DIRECTORS
ARIZONA Creighton University Dr. Bryan Roth
CALIFORNIA Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. B. David Massaband DVA - Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center - San Francisco Dr. Brooke Goodman DVA - Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Affairs Medical Center Dr. Carol Tran Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Oakland Dr. Jason Pollard Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Dr. Pedram Aslmand Scripps Mercy Hospital Dr. Brittany Rice St. Mary's Medical Center Podiatry Clerkship Dr Lawrence Oloff
COLORADO Highlands/Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center Dr. William Farrett
CONNECTICUT Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center Dr. Rafael Gonzalez Yale-New Haven Medical Center Dr. Michael Gazes
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MedStar Washington Hospital Center Dr. John Steinberg
FLORIDA Advent Health East Orlando Dr. Howard Finkelstein Bethesda Hospital East Dr. Julio Ortiz DVA - Bay Pines VA Healthcare System Dr. Melissa Abercrombie DVA - James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital Dr. Joshua Bernard DVA - Miami VA Healthcare System Dr. Jean-Jacques Kassis DVA - Orlando VA Medical Center Dr. Lisa Panariello Jackson South Medical Center Dr. Jaime Carbonell JFK Medical Center Dr. James Clancy
101 Larkin Community Hospital Dr. Francis Wodie Larkin Community Hospital - Palm Springs Campus Dr. Riquel Gonzalez Palmetto General Hospital Dr. Luis Marin Westchester General Hospital Dr. Elroy Kalme
GEORGIA Emory Decatur Hospital Dr. Joshua Mann
ILLINOIS Advocate Christ Medical Center Dr. John Grady DVA - Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center Dr. Luke Kovatch Rush University Medical Center Dr. Nicholas Alianello Community Health Network Dr. Michael Baker St. Vincent Hospital- Indianapolis Dr. Patrick DeHeer Ochsner Clinic Foundation Dr. Keith Luper
MASSACHUSETTS Cambridge Health Alliance Dr. Harry Schneider Mount Auburn Hospital Dr. Emily Cook Saint Vincent Hospital Dr. Paul Cournoyer St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston, Inc. Dr. Alfred Philips
MICHIGAN Ascension Genesys Hospital Dr. David Taylor Ascension St. John Hospital Dr. Joshua Rhodenizer Beaumont Health - Wayne Dr. Lawrence Fallat Beaumont Hospital - Farmington Hills Dr. Randy Semma Beaumont Hospital - Trenton Dr. Mohammad Khalil Detroit Medical Center Dr. Stacey Schwartz Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital Dr. Ahmad Farah McLaren Macomb Dr. Matthew Andrews McLaren Oakland Dr. Zeeshan Husain
MINNESOTA HealthPartners Institute/Regions Hospital Dr. Ryan Pfannenstein
MISSOURI Truman Medical Center Lakewood Dr. David Millward
NORTH CAROLINA
102 Cape Fear Valley Dr. Kristen McGinness
NEW JERSEY Cooper University Hospital Dr. Kimberly Hurley Englewood Hospital and Medical Center Dr. Jeffrey Cohen Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center Dr. Lenny Ramirez Hoboken University Medical Center Dr. Thomas Azzolini Inspira Medical Center Vineland Dr. Angelo Luzzi Jefferson Health Dr. Robert Warkala Jersey Shore University Medical Center Dr. James Sullivan Morristown Medical Center Dr. Brian Sullivan Saint Barnabas Medical Center Dr. Jay Bhuta Saint Michael's Medical Center Dr. Jacob Reinkraut St. Mary's General Hospital Dr. Michael Subik Trinitas Regional Medical Center Dr. George Kotzias University Hospital Dr. Sonia Mvuemba
NEW YORK Catholic Health System - Sisters of Charity Hospital Dr. Joseph Anain, Jr. Coney Island Hospital Dr. Yury Rotshteyn DVA - Northport and Stony Brook University Hospital Dr. Wendy Young DVA - Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Health Care System Dr. Jalu Patel Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center Dr. Bruce McLaughlin HealthAlliance Hospital Dr. Michael Keller Huntington Hospital at Northwell Health Dr. Jason Feinberg Jamaica Hospital Medical Center Dr. Tomasz Rostkowski Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center Dr. Peter Mollica Lenox Hill Hospital Dr. William Spielfogel Long Island Jewish Forest Hills at Northwell Health Dr. Adam Cirlincione Long Island Jewish/North Shore at Northwell Health Dr. Russell Caprioli Montefiore Medical Center Dr. Eric Walter Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital Dr. Dominic Catanese Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center Dr. David Gitlin Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital Dr. Lawrence Horl New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Dr. Ernest Megdanis NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens Dr. Joseph Alencherry NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn Dr. Jeffrey Lucido NYU Winthrop Hospital Dr. Raymond Ferguson Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital, Inc. Dr. Guido LaPorta Richmond University Medical Center Dr. Michael Piccarelli
103 Rochester General Hospital Dr. Paul Merkel St. Barnabas Hospital Dr. Emilio Goez Staten Island University Hospital at Northwell Health Dr. John Sottile The Brooklyn Hospital Center Dr. O. Joseph Falcone Wyckoff Heights Medical Center Dr. Ronald Guberman
OHIO Mercy Health - St. Vincent Medical Center Dr. Kathryn Schramm The Christ Hospital Dr. Douglas Schuckmann
PENNSYLVANIA Chestnut Hill Hospital Dr. Albert Mosheyev Geisinger Community Medical Center Dr. Mark Micciche Jefferson Health Northeast Dr. Michael Miller Lower Bucks Dr. Steven Boc Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Dr. Alan Mlodzienski Reading Hospital Dr. Kevin Naugle UPMC Medical Education - Mercy Dr. Jeffrey Manway UPMC Pinnacle Dr. Daniel Yarmel West Penn Hospital Dr. Matthew Hentges
RHODE ISLAND Kent Hospital Dr. Jason Mallette Roger Williams Medical Center Dr. Jordan DeHaven
TEXAS John Peter Smith Hospital Dr. Travis Motley The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Dr. Thomas Zgonis
VIRGINIA Eastern Virginia Medical School Dr. Patrick Agnew Inova Fairfax Medical Campus Dr. Robert Hallivis
WASHINGTON Franciscan Health System - St. Francis Hospital Dr. Paul Scott Swedish Medical Center - Cherry Hill Campus Dr. Midori Higashi
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTERS
DVA Central Alabama Veterans Healthcare System Montgomery, AL Eugene P. Goldman,
104 D.P.M., Angelo Agee, D.P.M. & Dan Robinson, D.P.M. DVA Carl T. Hayden Phoenix, AZ Edward Tierney, D.P.M. DVA Southern Arizona Healthcare System Tucson, AZ James Dancho, D.P.M. & Billy Martin, D.P.M. DVA Greater L.A. Healthcare System Los Angeles, CA Aksone Nouvong, D.P.M. DVA Loma Linda (Jerry L. Pettis) Loma Linda, CA Brian Mills, D.P.M., & Carol Tran, D.P.M. DVA Palo Alto Healthcare System Palo Alto, CA Jack L. Bois, D.P.M. DVA San Francisco San Francisco, CA Ross H. Talarico, D.P.M. DVA Eastern Colorado Healthcare System Denver, CO Stephen F. Albert, D.P.M. DVA Yale New England Healthcare System West Haven, CT Steven Vyce, D.P.M. DVA Washington Washington, DC Janette Thompson, D.P.M. DVA Miami Florida Miami, FL Gary Rothenberg, D.P.M. DVA Tampa (James A. Haley) Tampa, FL Joshua M. Bernard, D.P.M., DABPS., DABPO DVA Atlanta Decatur, GA Norman Field, D.P.M., Louis Jimenez, D.P.M. and. Brent Nixon, D.P.M DVA Augusta Augusta, GA Anthony B. Cresci, D.P.M. DVA Chicago Healthcare Sys. (Jesse Brown) Chicago, IL John F. Grady, D.P.M. DVA Hines Hines, IL Rodney M. Stuck, D.P.M. DVA North Chicago/St. Joseph Hosp. Chicago, IL Frank W. Zappa, D.P.M. DVA Maryland Healthcare System Baltimore, MD Hyman D. Gottlieb, D.P.M. DVA New Jersey Healthcare System East Orange, NJ Joseph Green, D.P.M. & Aaron Broyles, D.P.M. DVA New Mexico Albuquerque, NM John L. Hembree, D.P.M. & Mark Margiotta, D.P.M. DVA New York Harbor Healthcare System** Manhattan, NY Steven L. Goldman, D.P.M. DVA Northport Northport, NY Gregory A. Davies, D.P.M. DVA Akron Akron, OH Nichol L. Salvo, D.P.M. DVA Cleveland (Louis Stokes VAMC) Cleveland, OH Danae Lowell, D.P.M. DVA Dayton Dayton, OH Jay A. Wenig, D.P.M. DVA Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA Karen Galli, D.P.M. DVA Richmond (McGuire) Richmond, VA Jonathan Brantley, D.P.M.
105 Continuing Medical Education Assistant Dean Anthony R Iorio D.P.M., M.P.H.
This division has responsibility providing Education. Continuing Medical Education Podiatric Medical Education for our alumni (CME) is mandatory for the practicing clinicians and other faculty and residents of podiatrist, based on individual jurisdiction NYCPM and FCNY for the production and regulations. The college provides accreditation of Continuing Medical enrollment opportunities within many live Education Credits in Podiatric Medicine. and web-based seminars and courses annually on topics germane to the Continuing Medical Education and profession. Courses on offer can be accessed Services through the College website where program The College is an approved provider of CE- by the Council on Podiatric Medical details and fee schedules can be seen.
DEPARTMENT OF RESIDENCY EDUCATION AND AFFILIATED HOSPITALS
PODIATRIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Director: Thomas Vitale DPM FACFAS FACPM
Residency training has evolved into a (Podiatric Medicine and Surgery standard 3-year commitment, nationally. Residency). The great majority of approved Per the Council on Podiatric Medical programs are inclusive of an added Education (CPME), all residency programs credential in reconstructive rearfoot and provide training in medical sciences as well ankle surgery. The College program is one as surgical sciences and will allow the such program and was in 2019 re-accredited resident who has successfully completed by the CPME for a further 6 years. such a residency to become Board Qualified in both the ABFAS (American Board of Foot The number of entry-level residency and Ankle Surgery) and ABPM (American positions available each year is limited, and Board of Podiatric Medicine) specialty NYCPM cannot, and does not, guarantee boards. placement of every graduate into approved graduate training programs. The program model is known as a PMSR
AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
INSTITUTION ON-SITE RESIDENCY DIRECTOR Foot Center of New York Susan M. Rice, D.P.M. New York, NY
106 Harlem Hospital Center Sammy Adegboyega, D.P.M. New York, NY Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Matrona Giakoumis, D.P.M. Bronx, NY Metropolitan Hospital Susan M. Rice, D.P.M. New York, NY Queens Hospital Center Wayne Axman D.P.M Queens, NY
107 Board of Trustees
Gabriel P. Caprio, M.B.A., L.H.D. Chairman
Keith A. Greathouse, B.S., L.H.D. Members Vice Chairman Andrew A. Alberti, J.D., L.H.D. Susheel Bathla, D.P.M., L.H.D. Peter J. Norton, B.A., L.H.D. Kathleen Reilly Fallon, D.P.M., L.H.D. Treasurer Jordan Heller, M.B.A., L.H.D. Benjamin B. Choi, J.D., L.H.D. William G. Raisch, B.A., M.B.A., L.H.D. Secretary
Rock G. Positano, D.P.M., M.Sc., M.P.H. Deputy Board Chairman
Louis L. Levine, M.A., L.H.D., C.S.W. President & CEO
108 Executive Officers
Louis L. Levine, M.A., L.H.D., C.S.W. President and Chief Executive Officer
Michael J. Trepal, D.P.M., F.A.C.F.A.S. Vice President for Academic Affairs & Academic Dean
Joel A. Sturm, B.A. Vice President, Administration and Chief Operating Officer
Mark H. Swartz, M.D. Vice President for Medical and Professional Affairs
Avi Cohen, B.S. Senior Director of Finance
Aman Safaei, B.Sc. Chief Information Officer
109 Academic Administration
Office of Academic Affairs Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean Michael J. Trepal, D.P.M., F.A.C.F.A.S. Asst. Dean of Academic Admin. and Outcomes Alain O. Silverio Ed.M., E.S.
Division Deans Pre-Clinical Sciences Eileen Daly Chusid, Ph.D. Clinical Education Ronald Soave, D.P.M. Student Services Lisa Lee, M.A. Continuing Medical Education Anthony Iorio, D.P.M., M.P.H. Medical Education Mark H. Swartz, M.D.
Division of Pre-Clinical Sciences Dean Eileen Daly Chusid, Ph.D.
Division of Clinical Education Dean Ronald Soave, D.P.M. Departments and Sections Assistant to the Dean for Clinical Clerkships Maxiell Medina, B.A. Chair, Podiatric Medicine Samuel Adegboyega, D.P.M. Director, Wound Care Clinic Sharon Barlizo, D.P.M. Chair, Radiology Margarita Presman, D.P.M. Chair, Orthopedics and Pediatrics Loretta M. Logan, D.P.M. Chair, Surgical Sciences Kevin T. Jules, D.P.M. Chair, Community Health & Medicine Anthony Iorio, D.P.M.
Student Services Dean for Student Services and Enrollment Management Lisa K. Lee, M.A. Director of Enrollment Management Steebo Varghese, M.B.A Assistant Director of Enrollment Management Shakir Patterson, B.S. Assistant Director of Enrollment Management Garrisha Goodman, M.B.A Coordinator for Student Services and Enrollment Management Courtney Cadle, B.A. Registrar Doreen D’Amico, M.S. Associate Registrar Adrian Rice, BA Bursar Nataliia Samiiliv B.B.A. Housing Coordinator Natasha D. Peele Executive Director of Finances and Bursar Inbal Haimovich, M.P.A. Director of Financial Aid Systems Heather Jarushewsky Associate Director of Financial Aid Toni Daniels, M.P.H.
110 Academic Administration, continued
Library Services Chief Medical Librarian Paul Tremblay, M.L.I.S., M.A. Medical Librarian Lorraine Chun, M.L.I.S.
Continuing Medical Education Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education Anthony Iorio, D.P.M., M.P.H.
Research Director, Institutional Research Eileen Daly Chusid, Ph.D.
Outcomes Studies Assistant Dean of Academic Administration and Outcomes Alain O. Silverio, Ed.M., E.S.
Administration and Operations Chief Operating Officer Joel A. Sturm, B.A. Communications Manager Ellen Lubell, B.A. Director, Safety & Security James Warren Risk Management Joel A. Sturm, B.A. Director of Human Resources Sandra Daniels, B.A.
Finance Senior Director of Finance Avi Cohen, B.S. Controller Tahir Rasheed, M.B.A.
NYCPM Alumni Alumni Representative Arthur Gudeon, D.P.M. Alumni Relations Association President Jonathan Levy, D.P.M.
111 The Faculty
ADEGBOYEGA, SAMUEL, Chair, BLOCK, BARRY H., Adjunct Associate Department of Podiatric Medicine, D.P.M, Professor in Community Health and New York College of Podiatric Medicine, Medicine D.P.M., New York College of 2006 Podiatric Medicine, 1976 J.D., New York Law School, 1991 ALBERT, PRADEEP, M.D., Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, M.D., SUNY BOCKMAN, RICHARD S., Adjunct Prof., (Syracuse), 1997 M.D., Ph.D., Yale University, 1967
ALBERT, TODD, Professor, Academic BONARIGO, ELIZABETH, Instructor, Dept Orthopedic Surgery, M.D., University of of Medical Sciences, D.P.M., New York Virginia Medical School, 1987. College of Podiatric Medicine. 2016
ANSWORTH, ALLAN A., Adjunct BORER, JEFFREY S., Adjunct Professor, Associate Professor, M.D., Cornell, 1988 M.D., Cornell Medical College, 1969
ARONNE, LOUIS J., Adjunct Professor, BRENNER, MARC, Instructor, D.P.M., New M.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1981 York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1970
ASSEFA, HAREGEWEIN, Adjunct BRESSLER, ROBERT S., Professor Emeritus Associate Professor of Pre-Clinical Science, of Pre-Clinical Sciences Ph.D., New York Ph.D. University of Mississippi, 1999 University, School of Medicine, 1970
ASTRIN, KENNETH H., Associate CAMMISA, JR., FRANK P., Adjunct Professor of Pre-Clinical Sciences Ph.D., Professor, M.D., F.A.C.S., Columbia University of California-San Diego, 1973 University, 1982
BACKUS, SHERRY I., Adjunct Associate ______Professor, P.T., D.P.T., MGH Institute of 0 American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics & Health Professions, 2005 Primary Podiatric Medicine-Board Certified in Podiatric Orthopedics BARLIZO, SHARON, Professor of Podiatric P American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics & Medicine and Director, Wound Care Clinic Primary Podiatric Medicine-Board Certified in D.P.M. P, q Temple University School of Primary Podiatric Medicine Podiatric Medicine, 1999 q Board Certified, American Board of Quality Assurance Utilization Review BATTAGLIA, FORTUNATO, Associate S Diplomate, American Board of Foot and Ankle Professor in Pre-Clinical Sciences M.D., Surgery University of Messina School of Medicine, 1994 Ph.D., University of Messina School of Medicine, 2002 CASELLI, MARK, Adjunct Professor of o Orthopedic Sciences D.P.M. , New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1975
112 CHUSID, EILEEN DALY, Associate DESMAN, GARRETT, Adjunct Instructor in Professor and Dean of Pre-Clinical Sciences, Pre-Clinical Sciences, M.D., Cincinnati and Director of Institutional Research Ph.D., College of Medicine, 2004 Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York, 1977 DIGIOVANNI, CHRISTOPHER W., Professor, M.D., Brown University, 1991 COHEN, RANDY E., Professor Emeritus, D.P.M., Pennsylvania College of Podiatric DILANDRO, ANTHONY C., Adjunct Medicine, 1977 Professor of Pre-Clinical Sciences, Ed.D., City University of Los Angeles, 1996 CONNORS, JOHN, Adjunct Associate Professor in Orthopedics, D.P.M., Wm. M DINES, DAVID, Professor, M.D., New Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine, 1987. Jersey College of Medicine, 1974
CONSTANTOURIS, GUS, Assistant Course DINES, JOSHUA S., Adjunct Instructor in Director, Pharm D., D.P.M., St. John's Surgical Sciences M.D., Cornell University University, College of Pharmacy, Queens, Medical College, 2001 New York, New York of Podiatric Medicine DODSON, CHRISTOPHER C., Associate COZZARELLI, JOHN, Adjunct Instructor in Professor, M.D., Brown University, 2003 Radiology, D.P.M., NYCPM, 1987. DRAKOS, MARK, Adjunct Assistant CUSACK, JEFFREY J., Assistant Professor Professor, M.D., SUNY Stony Brook, 2003 of Orthopedics D.P.M.eo, New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1981 DYKYJ, DARIA, Adjunct Professor of Pre- Clinical Sciences Ph.D., Graduate Center, D’AMICO, JOSEPH, Adjunct Professor of City University of New York, 1983 Orthopedics and Pediatrics D.P.M. eo, New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1973 ECKLES, ROBERT A., Associate Professor of Orthopedic Sciences and Dean of PW DEJESUS, LADY P., Clinical Instructor Graduate Medical Education D.P.M.0F 1F , Medical Sciences, D.P.M., Barry University, California College of Podiatric Medicine, 2008 1983
DeLAURO, THOMAS M., Professor Emeritus, D.P.M.efos, New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1981
DELBRIDGE, CHERYL, Adjunct Instructor P American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics & Primary of Pathology, M.D., Podiatric Medicine-Board Certified in Primary Podiatric Medicine SUNY Health Science Center, 1981 W Diplomate, American Academy of Wound Management 0 American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics & Primary DESPRES, DANIELLE YAROS, Clinical Podiatric Medicine-Board Certified in Podiatric Orthopedics Instructor Department of Medicine, D.P.M., S Diplomate, American Board of Foot and Ankle Surgery e New York College of Podiatric Medicine, Fellow, American College of Foot and Ankle Orthopedics and Medicine 2016
113 EGGENA, PATRICK, Adjunct Professor of Pre-Clinical Sciences M.D., University of GODOY, JOHANNA, Assistant Professor of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1966 Surgical Sciences D.P.M., New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 2005 FAHIM, NABIL, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Medicine, D.P.M., New York GOLDMAN, STEVEN, Clinical Associate College of Podiatric Medicine. Professor of Medicine D.P.M.ps, New York FALCONE, JEFFREY, Adjunct Assistant College of Podiatric Medicine, 1982 Professor in Orthopedics, D.P.M., NYCPM, 1991. GREEN, MARK W., Adjunct Professor in Medical Sciences, M.D., Albert Einstein FAUST, GLENN R., Adjunct Clinical College of Medicine, 1974 Professor of Surgical Sciences M.D., Yale University School of Medicine, 1986 GROVIT, MELVYN, Sidney Solid Distinguished Professor Emeritus of pu FAVILENE, ADAM ; Clinical Instructor in Podiatric Medicine D.P.M. 2F 3F , New York Medical Sciences D.P.M., New York College College of Podiatric Medicine, 1961 of Podiatric Medicine, 2015 GUTIERREZ, OMAR, Adjunct Instructor of FEINBERG, JOSEPH, H., Adjunct Associate Pre-Clinical Sciences M.D. Weill Cornell Professor, M.D., M.S., Albany Medical Medical College, 2003 College, 1979 HELFET, DAVID L., Professor, M.D., GANNON, PATRICK, Professor Preclinical University of Cape Town, 1975 Sciences, PhD, CUNY, 1995 HOROWITZ, Jeffrey, Adjunct Clinical GEORGE, DAVID. Adjunct Clinical Instructor of Surgical Sciences, D.P.M, New Professor of Medical Science, D.P.M., pqe York College of Podiatric Medicine, 2000 New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1972 IORIO, ANTHONY, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Community GIAKOUMIS, MATRONA., Instructor, Health and Medicine; Assistant Dean for cops DPM, New York College of Podiatric Continuing Medical Education D.P.M. 4F , Medicine. New York College of Podiatric Medicine,
GIRARDI, FEDERICO D., Associate p American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics & Primary Professor, M.D., Universidad Nacional de Podiatric Medicine-Board Certified in Primary Podiatric Rossario, 1991 Medicine u Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists GLICKMAN, PETER, Adjunct Instructor in rBoard Certified in Foot Surgery and in Reconstructive Medicine, M.D., Harvard Medical School, rearfoot and Ankle Surgery f Fellow, American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons 1999. 0 American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics & Primary Podiatric Medicine-Board Certified in Podiatric Orthopedics GLOCKENBERG, AARON, Associate S Diplomate, American Board of Foot and Ankle Surgery Professor of Podiatric Medicine and cFellow, American Professional Wound Care Association Orthopedics D.P.M. New York College of
Podiatric Medicine, 1979
114 1981 M.P.H., New York Medical College, LEBWOHL, MARK, Adjunct Associate 2003 Professor of Podiatric Medicine M.D., Harvard University, 1978 JABRA, ANTHONY, Clinical Instructor Department of Surgery, D.P.M., New York LEPORE, FRANK L., Adjunct Clinical College of Podiatric Medicine, 2016 Instructor of Surgical Sciences D.P.M., New York College of JULES, KEVIN T., Professor and Chair, Podiatric Medicine, 2000 Department of Surgical Sciences, D.P.M.S, New York College of Podiatric Medicine, LEVITZ, STEVEN J., Professor of 1984 Orthopedic Sciences D.P.M.o, New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1979 KALISH, Stanley, R., Adjunct Professor of Surgical Sciences, D. P.M., New York LOGAN, LORETTA M., Associate Professor College of Podiatric Medicine, 1971 and Chair, Department of Orthopedics and O Pediatrics D.P.M.5F , New York College of KARLIN, ANDREW, Adjunct Associate Podiatric Medicine, 1989 Professor of Surgical Sciences, M.D., New York University School of Medicine, 1982 LORICH, DEAN G., Professor, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1990 KELLY, BRYAN T., Associate Professor, M.D., Duke University, 1996 LUPO, PHILIP, Adjunct Clinical Instructor of Medical Sciences D.P.M., New York KLEIN, DEVON A., Adjunct Assistant College of Podiatric Medicine, 1988 Professor of Medical Sciences, M.D., George Washington University, 1999 LUTZ, GREGORY E., Associate Professor, M.D., Georgetown University, 1988 KORNFELD, NEIL, Instructor of Community Health and Medicine MANDATO, Mark., Assistant Professor, J.D., Boston University School of Law, 1988 DPM, NYCPM, 1992
KOSINSKI, MARK A., Professor of Medical MAH, CHRISTOPHER, Assistant Professor, Sciences D.P.M. pi, New York College of D.C., MS, University of Bridgeport, 2004 Podiatric Medicine, 1983 MANDEL, STEVEN, Adjunct Professor in KRISHNAN, PRAKASH, Clinical Associate the Department of Medical Education., Professor in Medical Sciences, M.D. Rajah M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Muthiah Medical College, 1997 1975
LANDAU, SAMANTHA, Instructor of Orthopedic/Pediatric Sciences D.P.M., New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 2018 o American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics & Primary Podiatric Medicine-Board Certified in Podiatric Orthopedics LAPORTA, GUIDO, Adjunct Professor of iFellow, Infectious Disease Society of America Surgical Sciences D.P.M., Pennsylvania p American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics & Primary Podiatric Medicine-Board Certified in Primary Podiatric College of Podiatric Medicine, 1971 Medicine
115 MARKINSON, BRYAN C., Adjunct Professor of Podiatric Medicine PETROV, PETYA, Clinical Instructor in D.P.M., New York College of Podiatric Medicine, M.D., Medical Academy of Sofia, Medicine, 1981 Bulgaria, 1989.
MARX, ROBERT G., Professor, M.D., PRESMAN, MARGARITA, D.P.M. McGill University, 1991 Clinical Instructor in Medical Sciences New York College of Podiatric Medicine, MATTHEWS, KIRAN, Adjunct Instructor of 2012 pre-Clinical Sciences M.D., MR Medical College, Karnataka, India, 1996 RABADI, JULIA, Clinical Instructor in Surgery, D.P.M., New York College of MICHL, JOSEF, Adjunct Professor of Pre- Podiatric Medicine, 2010 Clinical Sciences M.D., Universität Johannes Gutenberg, 1970 RAMSEY-PARKER, EUNICE V., Associate Professor of Podiatric Medicine MOHAMED, SARAH, Clinical Instructor D.P.M., New York College of Podiatric Department of Medicine, D.P.M., New Medicine, 1985 York College of Podiatric Medicine, 2016 RANAWAT, AMAR S., Associate Professor, MOLLICA, PETER, Adjunct Clinical M.D., Weill Cornell Medical College, 1996 Instructor of Surgical Sciences, D.P.M, New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1980. RANAWAT, ANIL S., Associate Professor, M.D., Weill Cornell Medical College, 2001 MOSCHELLA, MARIA C., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pre-Clinical Sciences REITER, ROBIN J., Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh School of D.P.T., Northwestern University, 2001 Medicine, 1988 RESSEQUE, BARBARA, Professor of o NEARY, MICHAEL T., Assistant Professor, Pediatrics D.P.M.6F , New York College of D.P.M., Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Podiatric Medicine, 1980 Medicine, 1991 RICE, SUSAN M., Associate Professor, NOVELLA, THOMAS, Adjunct Professor of Surgical Sciences D.P.M., New York College Orthopedic Sciences D.P.M. O, New York of Podiatric Medicine, 1988 College of Podiatric Medicine, 1978 RICH, SUSHAMA V., Adjunct Assistant O’BRIEN, STEPHEN J., Associate Professor, Professor in Pre-Clinical Science, M.D., M.D., University of Virginia, 1981 Stanley Med. Coll., Madras, India, 1987.
PATTERSON, SHANNA K., Adjunct ROTHSTEIN, MICHAEL, M.S.N., Clinical Assistant Professor in Medical Sciences, Instructor, MSN, Wagner College, 1997 M.D., U.C. San Diego, 2005
PAVLOV, HELENE, Professor of Academic o American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics & Primary Orthopedic Surgery, M.D., Temple School Podiatric Medicine-Board Certified in Podiatric Orthopedics of Medicine, 1972,
116 ROZBRUCH, S. ROBERT, Professor, M.D., SURASI, MARIANNE, B.S.N., D.P.M., Weill Cornell Medical College, 1990 Associate Professor, B.S.N., College of Staten Island, 1985, D.P.M., New York SABOEIRO, GREGORY R., Associate College of Podiatric Medicine, 1990 Professor of Academic Orthopedic Surgery, M.D., St. Louis University School of SWARTZ, MARK H., Professor of Medicine Medicine, 1989 and Vice President, Medical and Professional Affairs M.D., Mount Sinai SALVATORE, STEVEN, M.D., Adjunct School of Medicine, City University of New Instructor, Preclinical Sciences, Weill York, 1973 Cornell Medical College, B.S., Wake Forest University, M.D., St. Louis University TREPAL, MICHAEL J., Vice President for School of Medicine Academic Affairs and Dean, and Professor of Surgical Sciences, D.P.M.c f s, New York SAMA, ANDREW A., Associate Professor, College of Podiatric Medicine, 1981 M.D., University of Miami, 1995 SCHWARTZ, ROBERT, Adjunct Instructor VAD, VIJAY B., Associate Professor, M.D., of Orthopedic Sciences Board Certified University of Oklahoma, 1992 Pedorthist VERMA, RAJESH, Adjunct Assistant SECKENDORF, DOUGLAS B., Assistant Professor in Medical Science, M.D., New Professor, D.C., New York Chiropractic, York Medical College, 1993 1991 VITALE, THOMAS, Associate Professor of SHARMA, RAHUL, Adjunct Associate Surgical Sciences D.P.M., New York College Professor in Medical Sciences, M.D., Tufts of Podiatric Medicine, 1985 University, 2001 VOLPE, RUSSELL G., Professor of o SHEIKH, REEM NASEER, Instructor, Orthopedics and Pediatrics D.P.M.7F , New Department of Surgery Graduate, D.P.M, York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1983 Des Moines University, 2012 WADE, PATRICIA, Associate Professor of SOAVE, RONALD Professor and Dean, Pre-Clinical Sciences Ph.D., University of Clinical Education , Professor Department California at Berkeley, 1978 of Surgery, D.P.M., New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1981 WARD, KATHERINE A., Assistant Professor of Podiatric Medicine SPILKEN, TERRY L., Adjunct Associate D.P.M. p s, New York College of Podiatric Professor of Podiatric Medicine Medicine, 1991 D.P.M., New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1979 WEILAND, ANDREW, Professor, M.D., Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 1968 STABILE, ROBERT, Adjunct Clinical Instructor of Surgical Sciences D.P.M., New o York College of Podiatric Medicine, 2005 American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics & Primary Podiatric Medicine-Board Certified in Podiatric Orthopedics
f Fellow, American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons
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WERNICK, JUSTIN, Professor Emeritus, Department of Orthopedic Sciences eo D.P.M.8F 9F , New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 1959
WESTRICH, GEOFFREY, Associate Professor, M.D., Tufts University School of Medicine, 1990
WILDE, GREGORY E., Adjunct Instructor, M.D., Georgetown Medical School, 2004
YAEGER, DANIEL, Instructor, Department , of Surgical Sciences D.P.M.8F New York College of Podiatric Medicine, 2018
YARIZ, KEMAL ORAL., Professor Pre clinical Sciences, Ph.D. University of Miami
YOUNG, MARK Adjunct Professor of Orthopedics M.D., University of Health Sciences, Chicago Medical School, 1987
e Fellow, American College of Foot and Ankle Orthopedics and Medicine s Diplomate, American Board of Foot and Ankle Surgery
118 History of the College
Until 1885, chiropody was a craft. Its craftsmen were men and women who learned from their predecessors that by applying the skill acquired in training, they could alleviate pain and discomfort for those afflicted with minor foot ailments.
In 1905, the New York State legislature awarded chiropodists the right to organize and to determine the fitness of individuals desiring to practice chiropody.
By 1911, the New York School of Chiropody had been created, dedicated to educating and training chiropodists. Dr. Maurice J. Lewi, a physician and educator, then serving as Secretary to the New York State Board of Examiners, was named the first president of the school.
Dr. Lewi, an activist and leader in educational reforms, formulated the first legislation governing the practice of chiropody. Working in concert with a small group of educators, Dr. Lewi then devised curricula and training programs for the first course of study at the school.
He suggested the term chiropody be changed to podiatry as etymologically correct. Subsequently, the term podiatry was adopted by other colleges of podiatric medicine and by the American Podiatric Medical Association.
The admission requirement for the first class in 1911 was one year of high school education. Over the years, requirements for entering students changed as the profession grew and demand for podiatric services expanded into specialized foot care and treatment programs requiring knowledge of general medical sciences, orthopedics and surgery. Educational preparation and clinical training programs were developed to meet these requirements. In 1919, the College was renamed the First Institute of Podiatry.
By 1940, podiatrists had to possess a doctorate in podiatric medical education in order to take the licensing examination (required in New York State). Today, entering students must have successfully completed a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in the United States or abroad, and have completed a number of specified science prerequisites. Pre-clinical science prerequisites are important for the student of podiatric medical education in understanding and
119 applying the scientific concepts and skills of the Doctor of Podiatric Medicine. Prior to applying for admission to the New York College of Podiatric Medicine, applicants must first take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). These scores, along with scholastic performance are among the requirements considered for admission. Third, and fourth, year students are assigned rotations at area hospitals in training paralleling that of allopathic medical students.
From 1939 to 1955, the College was known as the Long Island University College of Podiatry. Upon dissolution of this affiliation, the College became an independent not-for-profit institution. In 1957, it was renamed the M. J. Lewi College of Podiatry in honor of its founder and first president. In 1969, an absolute charter was granted the trustees of the College by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York. In 1972, the College received its current name, the New York College of Podiatric Medicine.
Located in the City of New York, the College had its first home at 125th Street, and rapidly outgrew its quarters. Three successive moves culminated in the erection in 1927 of the present college building, dedicated to podiatric medical education and clinical training. A building grant in 1976 from the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare enabled the creation of a separate, new clinical training facility, an expanded and updated library, and renovations to the existing college building. Completed in 1978, the new facility, the Foot Center of New York, provides clinical services to the community and continues to be affiliated with the College. The largest center of its kind, the Foot Center of New York ministers to a wide and diverse patient load in more than 16,000 patient visits annually.
In recent years, NYCPM has expanded into the international educational arena with twice-yearly programs for podologists from Spain; an externship at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, in Israel; and affiliations with Ireland, Poland, and India. The College has also reached out to its surrounding community, offering foot screenings at numerous neighborhood health fairs, as well as at such events as the American Diabetes Association’s annual Diabetes Expo and the Central Harlem Health Revival.
Other College events and initiatives instituted within the last two decades include the annual White Coat Ceremony for first-year students; an annual student-initiated, student-run Residency Fair, featuring representatives from nearly fifty hospitals; free diabetes workshops offered to members of the surrounding community; an annual student-initiated and student-organized inter-podiatric college research fair; an extremely active on-going series of Continuing Medical Education courses and workshops; a Mini-Fellowship Program for surgical training of podiatry residents in the New York Metro hospitals, and the creation of a digital, interactive learning environment for incoming students that enables them to consume the many digital assets at their disposal, such as Lecture Capture, Medical Videos, and lecture handouts and notes.
The College is affiliated with, among others, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Harlem Hospital Center, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Metropolitan Hospital Medical Center, Segundo Ruiz Belvis Diagnostic & Treatment Center, Morrisania Diagnostic & Treatment Center and Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital. Affiliation enhances educational and clinical opportunities and the development of podiatric healthcare departments within hospitals and of free-standing podiatric health care clinics.
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Graduates of NYCPM automatically become members of the Alumni Relations Association (ARA). The ARA is an integral part of the college with an advisory board. It promotes various programs and activities which provide benefits to its membership with the specific goals of supporting the College and its students through donations for scholarship funds, clinical and lab equipment, educational materials, and capital expenditures. The ARA also provides support for various student projects and program activities that further enhance the quality of education and student life at NYCPM. Student Alumni Representatives (one elected from each class) provide a vital link between the student body and the Alumni Relations Association and contribute to NYCPM publications such as the Footprints e-newsletter and the quarterly Alumni Journal.
121 Telephone & E-mail Directory The Area Code is 212. The NYCPM Web Site is www.nycpm.edu.
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