Subway Summit Webinar Series
We’re often asked how we collaborate with peers, advocate on your behalf with national organizations and gather data to inform decisions. Over the past two months, ISMMS has led the effort to organize the Subway Summit Webinar Series: COVID-19 Lessons Learned from the Epicenter with New York and New Jersey medical schools, the AAMC and the Associated Medical Schools in New York (AMSNY). With more than 50 speakers and over 700 registered attendees from across the country and world, we kicked off the series tonight with Curriculum and Assessment Innovations, Part 1.
Future sessions include Student Affairs, Student Perspective, Academic and Hospital Leadership, Operations (money, people, places) and Curriculum and Assessment Innovations, Part 2.
A Special Session addressing Racism: American Medicine’s Fatal Flaw will be hosted on Friday at 6:00pm, moderated by Dr. David Muller and Dr. Geoff Young, Senior Program Director for Student Affairs and Programming at the AAMC.
Click HERE to access the full schedule and webinar links, speakers and bios, and more; support your ISMMS administration and students as they present and moderate all week. All webinar recordings and presentations will be posted in the online event guide.
Pro Bono Legal Resources
If you are participating in rallies and demonstrations, in the event you are detained or arrested, below is a list of pro bono legal resources you can access. - David Eskew Abell, Eskew, Landau LLP 646-970-7340
Jeremy Saland Law Office of Crotty & Saland 212-312-7129 917-703-9019
Richard Levitt or Nick Kaizer Levitt & Kaize 212-480-4000
Mike Martinez Kramer Levin 212-715-9404 mmartinez@kramerlevin.com
Adam Abensohn, Esq Quinn Emanuel Adamabensohn@quinnemanuel.com Direct: 212-849-7228
Dennis Carletta, Esq O’Toole Scrivo Dcarletta@oslaw.com 973-239-5700
National Lawyers Guild https://www.nlg.org/massdefenseprogram/
The Legal Aid Society 212-577-3300
Step 2 CK Course Credit
The live online Step 1 course ran from May 11th - May 29th. The class was be recorded and will be available to you throughout the academic year. If you did not watch the course live, you may watch the recordings at your own pace, at whatever point in the year you choose.
To receive 2 weeks of elective credit for the Step 1 course, students must watch all course lectures either live online, or recorded online.
- If you complete the course (live or recorded), before June 30th., complete the attestation in the Blackboard organization for the course that states you completed all course sessions. No other action is required.
- If you complete the recorded course after June 30th, please sign up in Empower for the Step 1 course. Then, watch all sessions, either live or recorded. Finally, complete the attestation in the Blackboard organization for the course that states you completed all course sessions. Submitting a practice test score will not be required for credit, but students taking Step 1 after the start of third year should submit an NBME to Lauren Linkowski showing that they have scored above a 210, indicating they are not at risk of failing, regardless of whether they took the course or not.
Returning to the Clinical Environment - Classes of 2021 and 2022 (emailed on Friday, June 5)
Our primary goal is to balance your safety with the importance of providing an outstanding educational experience that mirrors as closely as possible the valuable in-person learning in our pre-COVID curriculum. The measures that we are putting in place are meant to protect you as an individual, and equally important, to protect those with whom you come into contact. Adherence to these guidelines will help mitigate risk to our community of faculty, staff, students, and patients.
The following is based on real-time data and evidence from national, state, regional, and health system sources. These are subject to change in the coming weeks, and our recommendations may be adjusted to reflect these changes.
General infection prevention guidance developed to mitigate risk and decrease transmission are the following:
- Decrease density of gatherings, particularly indoors
- Maintain social distancing whenever possible
- Require proper PPE in all clinical encounters
- Require face coverings in all public areas
- Decrease number of contacts each person encounters
- Minimize time spent in close proximity to others
- Maximize ventilation when groups are together
- Increase cleaning of high touch surfaces in shared spaces
- Require daily symptom checks
- Require anyone with symptoms to stay home
For the clinical curriculum:
- Surgical masks must be worn whenever on campus and, when clinically indicated, PPE in all patient encounters and procedures. Surgical masks and site specific PPE will be distributed at each site.
- Proper and frequent washing of hands and use of hand sanitizer must be maintained, specifically before and after all clinical encounters and before and after entering and leaving a room.
- Students must follow all donning and doffing protocols and procedures
- Students must monitor themselves daily for the presence of symptoms in a web-based symptom tracker that we are developing
- Individuals with symptoms must stay home and call their healthcare provider as indicated and follow the excused absence procedures for Years 3 and 4
Returning to Campus - Class of 2023 (emailed on Monday, June 8)
We have developed guidance for the upcoming academic year based on real-time data and evidence from national, state, regional, and health system sources. Because the data and evidence are subject to change in the coming weeks, our recommendations may also be adjusted. Our guidance includes infection prevention measures put in place to mitigate risk and decrease rates of COVID transmission both in and outside the classroom.
Based on the currently available data, we anticipate the following for the academic year:
- Starting the academic year on time
- Expecting all students to arrive on campus by the start of the academic year
- Allowing clinical shadowing and patient/community facing scholarly work with appropriate PPE
- Normalizing the practice of social distancing and infection prevention in all environments
- Wearing face coverings in all public areas
- Maintaining social distancing whenever possible
- Conducting didactics online
- Teaching small group sessions in-person with strict infection prevention precautions, specifically:
- Teaching spaces will not exceed 50 percent capacity
- Teaching spaces will maintain a person-size space (arm’s length) between individuals
- Surgical masks will be required in all small group sessions and whenever on campus
- Proper hand hygiene will be required before and after small group sessions
- Frequent hand washing throughout the day
- Staggered starts and coordinated elevator use to decrease crowding
- Increased cleaning of our spaces, especially high-touch surfaces
- Students to monitor symptoms in daily tracker
- Symptomatic individuals will be required to stay home
Antibody Testing by Appointment or Walk-in
A reminder that students can be tested for antibodies at Mount Sinai in the Annenberg Lobby. Walk-ins are available on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 7am – 3pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am – 5pm. If you prefer to make an appointment, complete the 2-step process: choose a time at SignUp Genius and then complete the personal information collection.
All In Together Events
Exercise? I Thought You Said Accessorize: A Chat About Accessorizing Yourself with Dr. Leona Hess - Tuesday, June 9 at 12 pm - Join us on Zoom
Making a Fried Chicken Sandwich at Home - with Alexander Joseph - Friday, June 12 at 3 pm - Meeting ID: 414504562
The Department of Medical Education Emergency Contacts:
- Dr. Gary Butts: 917-807-8342
- Dr. Tara Cunningham: 646-596-2123
- Dr. David Muller: 646-942-0956
- Dr. Ann-Gel Palermo: 646-528-3078
- Dr. Valerie Parkas: 917-601-1341
- Dr. Mary Rojas: 646-732-5730
- Michelle Sainte-Willis: 201-647-6183