The NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine MD program

Phase One is organized by organ system. Each course teaches how one system works alongside its diseases and their treatment, and the school says the aim is to tie basic science to clinical reasoning. In Cardiology, for example, morning seminars draw in infectious disease, pharmacology, genetics and embryology alongside heart failure, murmurs and the electrocardiogram.

Teaching mixes large-group sessions with small groups and is built around active learning, meaning you work through problems rather than only listen. Phase One formats include problem-based learning, small group seminars, lectures, workshops, clinical skills sessions, simulations and bedside teaching. The year opens with Language Acquisition, which pairs core science with case-based clinical exercises.

Three longitudinal courses run alongside. Practice of Medicine teaches clinical skills through Phase One. HSS-SHEP, taught through case discussions, interactive lectures and guided small-group work, spans all three phases, and so does CAPE. A Longitudinal Radiology Curriculum adds imaging teaching in every year.

From Phase Two, most learning happens on clerkships. The school says these and the Phase Three rotations follow the Core Entrustable Professional Activities (Core EPAs). These are an Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) list of tasks every new resident should be able to do, such as taking a history, presenting a patient and handing over care.

The course descriptions give the outline of a Phase One week. Most organ-system courses describe daily morning sessions. The Bulletin's course entries put labs for Morphology of Medicine (M4), the thread that teaches anatomy, histology, pathology and radiology, on Monday and Thursday mornings. The research page says first-year students' Tuesday and Thursday afternoons fall outside scheduled class time, which is when you can do extracurricular research.

CAPE meets monthly in Phase One, according to the course descriptions, so about once a month you spend time in your outpatient practice. The Phase One schedule sets aside an exam week for Practice of Medicine and HSS-SHEP at the end of the fall and again at the end of the year.

In Phase Two your week is built around your current clerkship. The curriculum page says the longitudinal courses meet once a week on a rotating schedule: an ambulatory primary care clinic, problem-based learning, health systems science, ethics and humanities, and radiology. The radiology department adds weekly RadsRounds during the internal medicine and surgery clerkships, small-group sessions where a radiologist reviews the imaging of patients you have seen.

Anatomy is taught in Morphology of Medicine, also called M4, a thread through all 46 weeks of Phase One. It covers the four morphological sciences: anatomy, histology (tissue under the microscope), pathology and radiology. M4 is built into Language Acquisition and each organ-system course, so you study each system's structure, tissues, diseases and imaging together.

In M4 labs, pathologists, anatomists and a radiologist teach together. The current course description lists three kinds of material: plastinated anatomy models, made from real specimens preserved with plastic; skeletal models, both assembled and in separate pieces; and surgical and autopsy specimens. Anatomy is taught both region by region and system by system.

Two radiology faculty members teach in M4, usually two days a week. The radiology department says imaging is used alongside the identification of structures on cadaveric material. Radiology images also appear on practical exams, to check how well you can assess a patient's anatomy with different imaging methods.

Histopathology labs use microscopes, archived slides and virtual microscopy, and the organ-system courses include teaching on whole organs from anatomical and autopsy specimens. The pathology department's page adds that students dissect pig hearts under the supervision of an anatomist and a pathologist, and take part in autopsy services through the department. You also make and read your own blood smears and can tour the clinical hematology laboratory.

A one-week Regional Anatomy course at the end of the fall covers the head and neck. It combines embryology, anatomy and radiology through lectures, labs, a skills lab and case-based learning.

Patient contact starts in Phase One. Practice of Medicine includes inpatient bedside teaching sessions and OSCEs with standardized patients. The Phase One Renal course also includes patient encounters and bedside teaching focused on patients with kidney disease.

CAPE pairs you with a preceptor, an ambulatory care physician in your chosen residency field. The 2026-2027 Bulletin describes how it builds. At first you mainly watch your preceptor build rapport, take a history, examine and agree on a plan with patients. Then you take on more of the history and examination yourself, under supervision. In Phase Two, CAPE expects complete, organized encounters, written up with a summary statement, a differential diagnosis and a management plan.

Full-time clinical work begins with Phase Two, after a week-long Transition to Clinical Care course. Outside the curriculum, you can volunteer at the student-run WiSH Clinic in Hempstead, a partnership of NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island and RotaCare. Students see uninsured and underinsured patients there with family medicine attendings and run the clinic day to day.

Phase One courses and the longitudinal courses are graded Pass/No Credit. Clerkships and other courses in Phases Two and Three are tiered as Honors, High Pass, Pass or No Credit, except electives and the Rehabilitation Medicine and Pain Management rotation. Each course's syllabus sets out its own grading elements.

You must pass every course in a phase to move on, completing any permitted reassessment if you fall short. A Student Progress/Promotion Committee reviews academic, clinical and professional performance and decides when you are ready to advance and to graduate.

Clinical skills are tested in OSCEs with standardized patients in the Simulation Center. Phase One has Practice of Medicine OSCEs, health systems science has its own, and clerkships use practice and graded OSCEs. Phase Two ends with the comprehensive clinical skills exam (CCSE), a series of simulated patient encounters testing communication, history taking, examination and clinical reasoning. You must pass it to graduate.

Step 1 and Step 2 CK are both graduation requirements, taken after Phase Two. Step 1 centers on the basic science behind health and disease, and has been reported only as pass or fail for exams taken on or after January 26, 2022. Step 2 CK tests whether you can apply clinical science to patient care under supervision.

Phase Three opens with four weeks of Capstone 1 for Step 1, then three weeks of Capstone 2 for Step 2 CK. On the 2026-27 calendar, Phase Three began on July 6 and the first elective block on August 24, leaving those seven weeks in between. The Office of Student Affairs advising timeline, revised in June 2024, puts Step 1 in July and Step 2 CK in August.

In August 2026 the USMLE program announced a move to designated testing dates from January 2029, with Step exams offered less often each year. Its June 2026 announcement had named 2028. On the current schedule, a student starting in July 2027 would finish Phase Two and begin Phase Three in mid-2029. Step 1 and Step 2 CK would then both fall in mid-2029, a few months after the switch.

• The projection for 2027 entrants carries forward the pattern of the published 2026-27 and 2027-28 calendars. The USMLE says it will publish its testing dates more than a year ahead of each calendar year.
• Graduation also requires the Phase Two elective, at least 12 weeks of Phase Three electives, a four-week sub-internship, a four-week critical care clerkship and the Transition to Residency course.

Your training is concentrated in Mineola. Classes are in the Research and Academic Center at 101 Mineola Boulevard. It sits across the street from NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island at 259 First Street, the main site for clinical education. The hospital runs a New York State-designated Level 1 Trauma Center. More than 5,000 babies are born each year in its New Life Center, and it has a Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit.

The hospital opened in 1896 as Nassau Hospital, which the NYU Bulletin calls Long Island's first voluntary hospital. It was renamed Winthrop-University Hospital in 1985 and merged with NYU Langone Health in 2017.

Phase Two clerkships take place at the hospital and its ambulatory training sites. Internal medicine and pediatrics are at the hospital, as is all inpatient obstetrics and gynecology, with outpatient time in the department's ambulatory offices. The Primary Care Clerkship uses the hospital's ambulatory primary care sites, and the neurology department names NYU Langone Ambulatory Care East Meadow as its outpatient training site.

The school says ambulatory experiences take place in community-based outpatient practices in all three years, and you will need a car for most of them. The family medicine department's electives and selectives use four sites. They are NYU Langone Medical Associates in Carle Place and in Valley Stream, NYU Langone Primary Care Clinic—Mineola and NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Bethpage.

In June 2026 NYU Langone announced plans for an academic medical center in Melville, in western Suffolk County, that would also include the school. The multiyear project needs state and local approvals, and NYU Langone says it will keep a strong presence in Mineola.

Electives come in all three phases and are allocated by lottery. Phase One has one week in April, meant to help you explore your chosen primary care field. The Bulletin's one-week options cover subjects such as family medicine, palliative care, sports medicine, allergy and immunology, rheumatology, radiology, nutrition and pathology, plus a laboratory research project.

Or you can design that week as a Preceptorship in Primary Care with a clinician in your residency department. You and your preceptor submit a proposal at least six weeks ahead for committee approval. A two-week Advanced Preceptorship works the same way later on.

Phase Two includes one two-week elective, placed by your clerkship track. Phase Three has 12 weeks of electives in two- or four-week blocks, chosen by lottery in April of Phase Two. You can drop, add or change them up to 30 days before each starts.

The current catalog lists 60 topics. They run from dermatology for primary care, geriatrics, palliative medicine and sleep medicine to newborn nursery, complex family planning, point-of-care ultrasound, clinical informatics, healthcare simulation and medical Spanish. Surgical options range from breast to vascular surgery.

Away electives are possible in Phase Three. You apply through the AAMC's Visiting Student Learning Opportunities (VSLO) system with help from the Office of Registration and Student Records. The associate dean of students or a designee must approve each one. The Bulletin lists two- and four-week Away Elective courses, in which you work as a near-intern under supervision.

The school says electives typically align with your residency track and there is little time to explore beyond the core primary care fields. It adds that the calendar leaves too little time for the research and final-year electives subspecialty residencies expect, and advises applicants unsure about primary care to look elsewhere.

The admissions FAQ says that, because the three-year curriculum is so tightly integrated, the school offers no combined or dual degree programs. Nor does it allow a leave of absence to pursue one. It adds that a leave for subspecialty research is not feasible, and that global health programs are not practical while enrolled, given the limited time between years.

The school encourages research early on. You can start extracurricular research after Language Acquisition, outside scheduled class time, with permission from the Office of Student Affairs, ethics training and a mentor–mentee agreement. The school says stipends are not available for it, but travel is usually reimbursed when your work is accepted at a meeting.

The admissions FAQ lists quality improvement, population health, health services, and clinical or translational research as options, and says basic science research is limited by the accelerated schedule. The director of the medical student research program is your first contact, and research workshops run twice a year.

Within the curriculum there are research electives, such as Basic and Translational Research, and the option of a research-based capstone project. You can present at the school's Research Day each spring, which has more than 100 poster presentations, and at regional and national meetings.

The Research and Academic Center at 101 Mineola Boulevard holds the MD program's main teaching spaces on its first three floors. It is open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays, with round-the-clock badge access. Its spaces include the Student Learning Studio, with classrooms, group study rooms and a relaxation lounge; the Structures Lab for foundational science lectures; and the William C. Hollis Health Sciences Library.

The 5,000-square-foot Simulation Center moved into the building in 2015. Its multipurpose room can be set up as an operating room, intensive care unit, trauma bay or multi-patient room, with untethered manikins from infant to adult. Four exam rooms with audio and video recording host standardized patient encounters, and a classroom is used for skills such as lumbar puncture, suturing and IV placement.

In May 2026 the center added an Epic electronic health record module, so you can practice in patient charts that behave like real ones but are fictitious. The first scenario was a pediatric patient whose parents had questions about vaccinations.

At the hospital, students have a clinical locker room and a lounge for study and breaks between shifts. A computer lab at 211 Station Road is used for exams.

Each student is assigned an academic coach and a departmental advisor for all three years. You meet your coach one-on-one to review your performance and set academic and wellness plans. On the 2024 advising timeline these meetings are monthly in your first fall and every other month that spring. Your advisor links you to your primary care department and helps with careers, electives, research and residency applications.

If you struggle, your coach and the course or clerkship director draw up an improvement plan, with tutoring or extra Simulation Center sessions if needed. Learning specialists help with test-taking, test anxiety and organization, and senior students run peer tutoring.

Workshops each fall cover time management, study habits and test-taking; later ones cover research presentations, electives, personal statements and the Match. A workshop on the Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE), the school's summary letter for residency applications, runs in the spring of the clerkship year. A primary care career night is held each January.

The Student Health Center offers primary care and behavioral health by appointment on weekdays, free except for certain immunizations. Behavioral health includes eight free counseling sessions a year. Elected wellness representatives from each class help plan an annual Wellness Retreat.

You are guaranteed a housing offer when you first enroll. The admissions FAQ describes below-market-rate apartments, from studios to shared two-bedroom units, a few blocks from the school and hospital. It says these are guaranteed to single students, and that housing for couples and families may be available.