Affiliated Hospitals and Organizations
Located on campus, Westchester Medical Center University Hospital is the main academic medical center of New York Medical College School of Medicine, as well as the primary rotation site for medical students. It is ranked among the top five hospitals in New York State for bariatric surgery, and is one of only 25 hospitals in the nation to receive the American Heart Association's 2008 Triple Performance Award. Westchester Medical Center also boasts the highest case mix index of all hospitals in the United States.
Approximately half of the medical school class relocates to New York City for clinical rotations (MS-3, MS-4), for which the primary site is Metropolitan Hospital Center in Manhattan. Students are not officially assigned to a single location. Rather, they may trade individual rotations to best suit their needs. Housing is provided for rotations that are further from the main campus, such as those in Connecticut, New Jersey or Staten Island.
New York Medical College is affiliated with the following hospitals and health care organizations for graduate and undergraduate medical education: (* Designates trauma centers)
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