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By Patrick Rocchio
A group of graduates from a
Caribbean medical school are
about to make a big impact on
the medical landscape of the borough.
This year St. George’s University
School of Medicine in
Grenada is sending 21 graduates
to residencies, or post-graduate
training, at three local hospitals
in the borough.
The graduates are headed to
Bronx Lebanon Hospital, Lincoln
Medical Center, and Montefiore
Medical Center – Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, said Dr.
Richard Liebowitz, St. George’s
University vice-chancellor.
They will be doing their residencies
in pediatrics, surgery,
psychiatry, internal medicine
and emergency medicine, said
Liebowitz.
The students were matched
with the hospitals where they
perform their post-graduate
medical training by a computer
ranking system based on their
own preferences and the preferences
of the hospitals.
This means that many of the
young doctors headed to the borough
selected the local hospitals
where they will work, said Liebowitz.
“The students put in into their
‘rank order lists’ places where
they are happy to train,” said
Liebowitz. “So the 21 people
who have matched to the Bronx
are probably going to be very
happy.”
Most of the students at the
college’s medical school come
from the United States originally,
said Liebowitz, but like the borough,
they are also from a diverse
group of countries as well.
The college has a long history
of matching students to borough
hospitals, particularly to Lincoln
Hospital, said the vice-chancellor.
The fact that borough hospitals
took so many new residents
from St. George’s speaks well of
the school, the vice-chancellor
believes, saying that it shows
graduates of the school have
been reliable.
He said he believes a lot of
students chose to work in urban
environments like the borough
where there are sometimes higher
levels of poverty, because of
their strong commitment to
social justice.
One of the young doctors
matched to Lincoln Hospital,
Nick Romagnoli, who is about to
graduate from St. George’s University
School of Medicine, said
that he was impressed by Lincoln’s
Emergency Department
when he spent a month there
in August 2018 during medical
school. Romagnoli, who is originally
from the Washington D.C.
area, will be doing his residency
in emergency medicine at Lincoln.
Romagnoli said his experiences
at Lincoln Emergency Department
and elsewhere drew him to
specialty.
He said he was especially
impressed by the camaraderie
amongst the residents at the Melrose
based hospital.
“Everybody was friendly, welcoming
and willing to help. It felt
like a true team effort there and
I knew I would be happy (at Lincoln),”
said Romagnoli.
The future Lincoln resident
and soon-to-be M.D. said he is
especially happy to train at Lincoln
because it is a Level 1 trauma
center, the highest designation
of trauma treatment.
Nick Romagnoli, a St.
George’s University medical
school graduate, is one of 21
newly minted doctors who
are in their residency training
that are being sent to
borough hospitals this year
from the Grenadian school.
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