Overview and Facilities

Administration

Robert A. Brown President of the University

Karen H. Antman, MD, Dean, School of Medicine; Provost, Medical Campus

Thomas Moore, MD, Associate Provost

Mark Klempner, MD, Associate Provost for Research

Gerald Keusch, MD, Associate Provost for Global Health

David Center, MD, Assistant Provost for Translational Medicine

Susan Frey, JD, Assistant Provost for Research Compliance and Health Information Privacy

Robert F. Meenan, MD, MPH, MBA, Dean for Public Health

Barry M. Manuel, MD, Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education

Susan Haas, MD, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs

Phyllis L. Carr, MD, Associate Dean for Student Affairs

Jonathan Woodson, MD, Associate Dean for Student Affairs

Carl Franzblau, PhD, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Sciences

Robert A. Witzburg, MD, Associate Dean and Director of Admissions

Sharon Levine, MD, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Gary Balady, MD, Assistant Dean for Admissions

Howard Bauchner, MD, Assistant Dean for Continuing Medicine

Kenneth Grundfast, MD, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs; Assistant Dean for Education and Alumni Affairs

Michael Charness, MD, Assistant Dean for the VA

Selwyn A. Broitman, PhD, Assistant Dean for Admissions

Paul M. O'Bryan, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs

Deborah W. Vaughan, Assistant Dean for Admissions

Gary Balady, MD, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs

Suzanne Sarfaty, MD, MPH, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs

Elaine Ullian, MPH, Chief Executive Officer, Boston Medical Center

William J. Gasper, CPA, MBA, Associate Vice President for Business Affairs/Medical Campus

David S. Ginn, MLS, PhD, Librarian

Ellen J. DiFiore, Registrar and Coordinator for Advanced Standing Admissions

Gary Nicksa, Vice President for Operations

Barbara Cole, Associate Vice President for Research Administration,Vice President for Finanical Affairs

Ara Tahmassian, PhD, Associate Vice President In Research Compliance

David D. Flynn, Assistant Vice President, BUMC Facilities Management

Boston University established the School of Medicine in 1873 by merging with the New England Female Medical College, which had been founded in 1848 as the first medical college for women in the world. The School of Medicine became a constituent member of the Boston University Medical Center in 1962. It is situated in the South End of Boston adjacent to Boston Medical Center, a major teaching hospital, and BioSqaure, the University's 16-acre biotechnology park.

The School of Medicine offers multiple pathways leading to the MD degree, including a four-year program. A seven-year program, begun in 1960, leads to the BA and MD degrees; students also have the option of completing this program in six years. The Modular Medical Integrated Curriculum (MMEDIC), a non-accelerated, eight-year program leading to the BA and MD degrees, began in 1977. A similar program, Early Medical School Selection Program, has been developed to increase the minority physician population. In addition, the School of Medicine provides an alternative curriculum which allows students the option of completing the first year of medical school in two academic years. The School of Medicine and the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences offer combined programs leading to an MD/PhD degree. Programs leading to both the MD/MPH and MD/DSc degrees are offered through the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health. A combined MD/MBA degree was added in 2002.

Prospective candidates are attracted by the dual advantages of comparatively small classes that afford opportunity for considerable personal contact with members of the faculty, and the benefits of study in a great medical center where there are diverse settings for clinical instruction as well as externships in affiliated and neighboring hospitals and neighborhood health centers.

The principal instructional building sits at the hub of a vast academic health center that also includes Boston Medical Center (a major clinical affiliate), a dental school, a school of public health, and a research enterprise that includes nearly six hundred individual grants and contracts. To accommodate the shift to more problem-based learning, a network of small seminar rooms promotes small group meetings. From these settings, interactive and asynchronous learning modules and the full potential of the Alumni Medical Library may be accessed through wireless connectivity.

Many students—about 20 percent of the senior class—participate in a variety of international health elective experiences that have expanded greatly as part of the University's Global Health Initiative. In addition, another 20 percent take electives in research.

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Accreditation

Boston University is accredited by pertinent agencies in the educational fields which it serves.

The University as a whole is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and is a member of the following: American Association of University Women, American Council on Education, Association of American Colleges, Association of Urban Universities, Council of Graduate Schools in the United States, EDUCOM Interuniversity Communications Council, Institute of International Education, and National Association of Schools and Colleges of the United Methodist Church.

Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association.

Residency programs at the School of Medicine are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education of the American Medical Association.

The School of Medicine's continuing medical education programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.

Clinical Facilities

In addition, Boston Medical Center serves as a leading regional referral facility, offering specialized tertiary medical services for complex health problems, and is a preeminent research institution.

Boston Medical Center, the principal teaching hospital of the Boston University School of Medicine, offers a full spectrum of pediatric and adult care services, including primary and advanced specialty care, as well as outreach programs, particularly for the city's homeless population. Nationally recognized services include programs in cardiovascular medicine, cancer, trauma, geriatrics, Parkinson's disease, arthritis, infectious diseases including AIDS, and spinal cord injuries. In addition, the hospital operates the nation's first home medical program, which began in 1875.

Focusing strongly on urban health, Boston Medical Center is a founder of
the Boston HealthNet, a partnership of the hospital, Boston University School of Medicine, and 15 neighborhood health centers located throughout Boston. HealthNet members provide outreach, prevention, primary care, and dental services during nearly one million patient visits per year.

The hospital annually serves more than 975,000 outpatient visits and 117,000 emergency department visits to the city's only certified Level-One trauma center. It has more than 5,250 employees and 1,000
physicians.

The hospital is approved for internship and residency training by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education of the American Medical Association.

These initiatives have facilitated the expansion of research on a broad front involving both basic and clinical investigations. New centers of excellence have been created, and major new programs in translational research have been developed to facilitate the rapid transfer of laboratory discoveries to clinical applications at the bedside.

Approximately half of the active contracts and grants for research and training focus on clinical research.

Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School share responsibility for the academic programs at the hospital. The deans of the two medical schools co-chair the Dean's Committee, which oversees educational activities and academic appointments. Medical students and residents from both schools and their other affiliated hospitals rotate to the Boston VA Medical Center for clinical instruction, including clerkships and electives in internal medicine, surgery, neurology, psychiatry, and the various medical and surgical subspecialties.

The Boston VA Medical Center conducts a vigorous program of medical research. Included are major activities in epidemiology, health services research, women's health, cognitive neuroscience, and a broad spectrum of basic laboratory research.

Other clinical affiliates that train medical students and residents include Quincy Medical Center, Quincy, Massachusetts; Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island; and more than 25 general and specialty hospitals in Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

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Libraries

Holdings include approximately 139,000 monograph volumes and 3,274 current print and electronic periodicals and serial publications. In-house and remote access to the library's BUMC MEDLINE Plus search system is available to BUMC faculty, staff, and students. The full text of over 2,300 journals, including images, illustrations, and references, is accessible through BUMC MEDLINE Plus. The collection includes titles from the following publishers: the American Chemical Society, BioMed Central, Blackwell Publishing, Elsevier ScienceDirect, and others.

The library provides access to approximately 80 major electronic textbooks including the McGraw-Hill AccessMedicine and STAT!-REF collections, as well as over 90 bibliographic databases such as MEDLINE, ERIC, LEXIS-NEXIS, PsycINFO, Science Citation Index, and more.

The Learning Resources Center on the 11th floor provides a full range of hardware and software programs, laser printers, scanners, full Internet capabilities, electronic mail accounts, access to BUMC MEDLINE Plus/OVID, CAI programs, and more.

The library has connections for laptop computing. Ethernet ports are located in the Reference area. Wireless Internet connections are available in the library and throughout the campus. The LRC labs and classrooms house over 160 IBM-compatible PCs and Macintosh computers with a variety of word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software available. There are additional PCs and Macintosh computers adjacent to the library's Reference Desk, on the 12th floor of the library.

Other library services include reference assistance, bibliographic instruction, and workshops on the use of MEDLINE and other databases. Additional training is offered on creating effective presentations using PowerPoint, and managing bibliographic citations with EndNote. Photocopy cards are available for use in photocopiers located on all floors of the library.

Materials not owned by the Alumni Medical Library may be obtained through the interlibrary loan network, which links Boston University to the National Library of Medicine and to academic and medical libraries around the country. The library also participates in a cooperative agreement with a number of local university and medical center libraries as part of the Boston Library Consortium.

The library is open 106.5 hours a week during the academic year. Hours are Monday–Thursday, 7:30 a.m.–midnight; Friday, 7:30 a.m.–10 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.–10 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.–Midnight. Hours are posted at the library entrance and on the library's website.

Alumni Association

The Alumni Association of Boston University School of Medicine, incorporated August 5, 1902, was formed for the purpose of supporting the needs of the School and promoting social and friendly relations among alumni, as well as cooperating with the faculty in maintaining a high standard of medical education. In accordance with the bylaws adopted at the annual meeting in 1902, and as amended, "All graduates as doctors of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine shall become members of this Association." More recently, all graduates in the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences at Boston University School of Medicine are members of the Alumni Association. Also, all members of the faculty who are not alumni are honorary members.

The business of the Alumni Association is directed by the dean, the elected officers, and the executive committee, and carried out by the executive director. Executive Committee meetings are held at stated intervals during the school year. The election of officers takes place each year at the Annual Meeting and Banquet, held in May. All alumni are welcome to participate actively in the affairs of the association and assist the officers in the furtherance of its objectives, including support of the annual fund campaign. The annual fund, based on a fiscal year of July 1 to June 30, raises money to further various projects of major importance to the School of Medicine and its students, including student financial assistance programs, the Alumni Medical Library, and student activities and publications.

The Alumni Association supports the connection between alumni and the School through a variety of activities and programs including Alumni Weekend, reunions, alumni receptions held across the country, an online directory of alumni, the Alumni Association website, the Campus and Alumni News newsletter, and class newsletters.

The Alumni Association also supports the connection between alumni and students. A directory of alumni who have volunteered to allow students to shadow them in their practices is available to students. Alumni act as a resource for students choosing specialties and residency placements. Alumni also act as contacts for prospective students looking for information on the education provided by Boston University School of Medicine.

Inquiries regarding School of Medicine alumni activities, changes of address, and items of interest should be forwarded to:

Alumni Association
Boston University School of Medicine
715 Albany Street
Boston, MA 02118
617-638-5150
Fax: 617-638-4492
E-mail: alumbusm@bu.edu
Web: www.bumc.bu.edu/medalumni.

BUSM Alumni Association
Executive Committee

Executive Director

Barry M. Manuel '58

Officers

David Rothbaum '82 President
Andrew M. Goldenberg '83 First Vice President
Ana-Cristina Vasilescu '84 Second Vice President
Bernard L. Huang '62 Secretary
Robert O. Valerio '70 Assistant Secretary
Barry M. Manuel '8 8 Treasurer
Ronald F. Backer '70 Assistant Treasurer
Carl A. Olsson '63 Annual Fund Chairman
Donald J. Grande '73 Phonathon Director

Reshma Kewalramani '98
A.V. Mariano '59
Jean E. Ramsey '90
Carol Sprague Savage '92
Stephen M. Tringale '90
Russell B. Zide '94

Harold I. Miller '41
Peter L. Sapienza '43-A
Norman S. Stearns '47
Thomas F. Boyd '48
David S. Johnson '49
Alan S. Cohen '52
Peter E. Pochi '55
Job E. Fuchs '44
Stephen J. Alphas '55
Donald S. Kaufman '60
George Edward Garcia '61
Roberta Apfel '62
Carl A. Olsson '63
Pierre E. Provost IV '64
Elizabeth C. Dooling '65
Peter J. Deckers '66
David A. Bailen '67
James W. Rosenberg '68
Lester K. Henderson '69
Robert O. Valerio '70
George P. Whitelaw '71
Robert F. Meenan '72
Donald J. Grande '73
Harold L. Lazar '74
Mary Kraft '75
M. Douglass Poirier '76
Robert A. Witzburg '77
Marcia E. Herrmann '78
Howard C. Bauchner '79
Kenneth B. Simons '80
Elizabeth Oates '81

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