Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
PEARLS
The medical schools curriculum is based on an innovative educational method called PEARLS Patient-Centered Explorations in Active Reasoning, Learning and Synthesis. Students meet in small groups three times a week to uncover and learn the biomedical science underneath real patient cases. These themes and concepts identified during PEARLS integrate with other learning sessions, labs and clinical experiences the students have during the week.
Structure Lab
Students spend one day a week in the Structure Lab, a state-of-the-art environment that offers the most advanced tools to learn gross and microscopic anatomy and features clinically relevant pathology and imaging. In general, each laboratory session includes several stand-alone stations, each of which has discrete learning objectives that coincide with the cases the students study in their PEARLS classes that week. School of Medicine faculty from the North Shore-LIJ Health System also participate in Structure sessions, thereby bringing their expertise to the learning process.
Narrateur: Reflections on Caring Gives Voice to Challenges and Celebrations of Patient Care
This year, the students celebrated the publication of the schools new literary journal, Narrateur: Reflections on Caring. This publication reflects the School of Medicines commitment to self-expression, reflection, compassion and respect for the patient-physician relationship. Narrateur publishes works fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography or illustration by students, faculty and employees of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, and Hofstra University.
Community Outreach
Medical Scholars Pipeline Program
The Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicines Medical Scholars Pipeline Program is an outstanding opportunity offered to academically exceptional but economically disadvantaged high school students from surrounding communities. The School of Medicine administration and faculty designed this unique five-year summer program to increase diversity in the health care workforce by providing students with the exposure, support and educational tools necessary to become competitive college and medical school applicants. Several of the first-year medical students will be working with the Medical Scholars Pipeline Program students this summer.
Germs Be Gone
In the first of many planned interactions with the school district, medical students taught second-grade students from the Plainview Old-Bethpage Central School District about germs and the importance of proper hand-washing techniques. This past spring the medical students visited four elementary schools and conducted hand-washing lessons for the young students. Following each lesson, students were asked to go home and share with their families what they learned about germs and proper hand washing.
Conclusion
In August 2012 a new class of 60 medical students will join the historic inaugural class. In the years to follow, class size will grow until a maximum class size of 100 is reached. Plans are also underway to nearly double the size of the medical school building.