Bassett programme “represents the highest ideals and champion practices of the doc that I 1 time anticipation to be”
Cooperstown, NY – Bassett Medical Center announced contiguous that it is welcoming the 10 students comprising the Columbia-Bassett Medical School Program Class of 2025. The students person completed their 18 months of pre-clinical grooming connected Columbia’s New York City field and volition present beryllium based astatine Bassett Medical Center successful Cooperstown for the objective constituent of their education.
Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) has partnered with Bassett since 1947 to springiness students a unsocial objective education. Columbia and Bassett expanded this acquisition by establishing the Columbia-Bassett Medical School Program, which welcomed its archetypal people of 10 VP&S students successful 2012.
Dr. Tommy Ibrahim, President & CEO of Bassett Healthcare Network, said: “We are excited to invited the exceptional students of the Columbia-Bassett Program Class of 2025. They volition assistance make the aboriginal of healthcare. We are arrogant that Bassett, a person successful agrarian health, is wherever they volition summation invaluable objective experience. I anticipation you volition instrumentality a infinitesimal to larn astir each of them and invited them to our community.”
The Columbia-Bassett Medical School Program is unsocial successful its plan and consistently attracts immoderate of the champion aesculapian students from astir the country. The archetypal twelvemonth and a fractional of the Columbia-Bassett program takes spot successful New York City successful pre-clinical studies. The 2nd phase, 2 and a fractional years, is based successful Cooperstown, N.Y. Students’ objective experiences astatine Bassett’s Cooperstown field dwell of a required one-year acquisition followed by a twelvemonth and a fractional of electives and pursuit of an country of attraction utilizing the afloat array of opportunities astatine some campuses.
“The students successful the Columbia-Bassett Program payment immensely from the peculiar acquisition of learning astir wellness transportation successful an integrated, agrarian infirmary network,” said Katrina Armstrong, MD, Dean of the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. “The objective acquisition they person successful the Columbia-Bassett Program not lone enriches their aesculapian schoolhouse experience, it volition payment these doctors and their patients done the entirety of their careers.”
“Columbia-Bassett students acquisition wellness acquisition successful the champion of 2 worlds – New York City’s Presbyterian Hospital and Cooperstown’s Bassett Medical Center. The contrasts of settings and diligent populations merge successful the azygous ngo of learning to assistance radical successful their pursuit of health,” said Dr. Henry Weil, Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical & Academic Officer of Bassett Healthcare Network and Chief Operating Officer of Bassett Medical Center.
Meet the Columbia-Bassett Class of 2025
Thomas Benz
Hometown: Cicero, NY
"The connections with my classmates, teachers, and mentors person been truthful profoundly meaningful to me. We are learning unneurotic and cultivating community. I consciousness excited and grateful to beryllium entering the objective world, and I look guardant to the learning and communities to come."
Kishan Bhatt
Hometown: Edison, NJ
"I anticipation to larn astir advancing wellness equity done Bassett’s systems enactment program and done the longitudinal objective experience."
Lindsey Gorsch
Hometown: Charlottesville, VA
"Over the summer, I joined 2 probe projects - 1 exploring the interface of diabetes and pregnancy, the different examining transplant outcomes successful pediatric populations. I americium truthful excited for the adjacent section of aesculapian schoolhouse and to determination up to Cooperstown!"
Matthew Johnson
Hometown: Medfield, MA
"My member was, and continues to be, my inspiration to prosecute medicine. He has a information called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and increasing up I got to spot the unthinkable interaction his healthcare providers had connected his beingness which motivated maine to take this vocation path."
Benjamin Lynch
Hometown: Lyme, NH
"I witnessed however probe helps nonstop effectual diligent care, however method accomplishment and thorough mentation tin assistance heal galore children with debilitating neurosurgical conditions, and however physicians enactment families done terminal prognoses. I’m looking guardant to refining my objective reasoning and spending much clip with patients successful Cooperstown. See you soon!"
Tiana Saak
Hometown: Grundy Center, IA
"Coming from a agrarian country myself, I americium particularly funny successful learning however to amended the ways healthcare works logistically erstwhile attraction of a diligent is dispersed implicit a ample geographic area. I americium excited to articulation the Bassett programme due to the fact that I cognize I volition beryllium a portion of a supportive, passionate assemblage successful a tiny municipality that volition consciousness similar home."
Sidney Saint-Hilaire
Hometown: Elmont, New York
"In college, I engaged successful a scope of probe topics—including the societal dynamics of activism, perceptions of societal mobility, and community-partnered, hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs."
Carina Sirochinsky
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
"My clip moving successful labs and idiosyncratic experiences led maine to recognize that I wanted to beryllium connected the patient-facing broadside of implementing caller therapies and treatments. I americium precise excited to beryllium portion of the Columbia-Bassett community!"
Dean Strup
Hometown: Dublin, Ohio
"I americium incredibly excited to beryllium capable to prosecute my extremity of becoming a doc done the Bassett program. In my archetypal application, I stated that the program, “represents the highest ideals and champion practices of the doc that I 1 time anticipation to be.” Upon overcoming my disbelief successful being admitted, I realized that I person been presented with the accidental of a beingness to marque existent alteration successful some the signifier of healthcare and successful the lives of my patients."
Emma Weatherford
Hometown: Flower Mound, Texas
"I americium funny successful studying the operation of the healthcare strategy and exploring however it tin beryllium reimagined to amended conscionable the needs of radical for whom it was not designed, specified arsenic radical with intelligence oregon carnal disabilities. I was drawn to the Columbia-Bassett programme by the accidental to larn much astir systems and americium excited to proceed this education."
About Bassett Healthcare Network
Bassett Healthcare Network is an integrated wellness strategy that provides attraction and services to radical surviving successful a 5,600 quadrate mile portion successful upstate New York. The enactment includes 5 corporately affiliated hospitals, implicit 2 twelve community-based wellness centers, much than 20 school-based wellness centers, 2 skilled nursing facilities, and different wellness partners successful related fields. To larn much astir services disposable passim the Bassett Healthcare Network, sojourn www.bassett.org. Follow Bassett connected Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Bassett Healthcare Network is an adjacent accidental supplier and employer.
About Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) was founded successful 1767. It is the postgraduate Medical School of Columbia University. VP&S was the archetypal Medical School successful the United States to grant the Doctor of Medicine (MD) grade to its graduates. Among the different Medical Universities successful the United States, Columbia University ranked 4th for aesculapian probe by the U.S. News & World Report. For much than 250 years, VP&S has pioneered aesculapian education, research, and diligent attraction for patients from astir the world.
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