\n\t
Jacobi Medical Center, formerly known as the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, has been affiliated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) since the creation of both, the school and the hospital on 1955.<\/p>\n
After several years of planning, the new AECOM recruited its first class of 56 students, and began their instruction in the fall of 1955. Across the street was the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, now Jacobi Medical Center, which for years was the single and primary teaching hospital of the College.<\/p>\n
The Department of Medicine began its academic existence in July 1955 when Irving London, the first chairman, came to the new medical school from Columbia University\u2019s College of Physicians and Surgeons. \u201cThere was a resident at Columbia-Presbyterian who was universally recognized as the best and brightest, and when he accepted the opportunity to embark on a career at a medical school yet to prove its mettle, on a service that would be full of problems, I knew that we were very lucky\u201d.<\/em>recalled Dr. London. Doctor Milford Fulop was recruited by Dr. London to develop the Medicine Residency Program at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, later known as Jacobi. \u201cWe had an unknown housestaff, a load of patients ready to occupy medical wards at Jacobi, and a yet-to-be-developed chest service that would become the largest in New York City\u201d.<\/em>\u201cThe College started from ideas germinating in a number of minds, a little house on Morris Park Avenue, and a deal made with the city,\u201d Dr. Fulop said. \u201cThe faculty was small enough that we each knew one another on a first-name basis, and the exchange of ideas and conversation was perfectly free.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
\n\t\t
\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n
\n\t
Department of Medicine housestaff, fellows, and faculty in June 1956. From left to right, first row: Victor Herbert, Ernst Jaff\u00e9, Labe Scheinberg, Charles Frank, Milford Fulop, Irving London, I.H. Scheinberg, David Hamerman, and Bracha Ramot. Second row: Mallory Stephens, Joseph Niemann, Constantine Gitsios, Herbert Vaughan, Jack Shapiro, Cecil Broderick, Irmin Sternlieb, Seymour Levitan, Norman Isaacs, Harvey Serating, Harold Adel, Myron Zinn, and Frido Kiefhaber.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Dr. Fulop oversaw residents and orchestrated a number of medical school courses, including Physical Diagnosis, Laboratory Methods, and third- and fourth-year clerkships. \u201cIn 1958, this young fellow just a few years older than I was seemed to know everything that was going on, and he even seemed to know what we were thinking about,\u201d recalled Leslie Bernstein, MD, Professor Emeritus (Gastroenterology). \u201cHe\u2019s just as amazing now as he was in 1958.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaking rounds with Milford was memorable. I think he was the first person who used thoughtfulness as a way of developing clinical skills,\u201d said Harold Adel, MD, MPH, Professor Emeritus and one of Dr. Fulop\u2019s first trainees who later assisted him in leading the residency at Jacobi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n\n
\n\t\t
\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n
\n\t
The aerial photograph above was taken in the mid 1950\u2019s and shows the AECOM and BMHC campuses from the south. From left to right, new glazed white bricks sparkling in the sunlight, are the Forchheimer building of the medical school (the college\u2019s only building at the time), Van Etten Hospital and Jacobi Hospital.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Until the Weiler Hospital opened in 1966, all of the Department of Medicine at the AECOM\u2019s Internal Medicine residency training took place on the general Medical Service at Jacobi Hospital and on the Chest and Metabolic Research Services in Van Etten Hospital.<\/p>\n
Medical students came from the top schools around the nation to be residents in the Einstein-Jacobi Medicine program and be trained at the new hospital and medical school with its exciting and enthusiastic young faculty.<\/p>\n
In the 1960s and 1970s, under the direction of Milford Fulop and David Hamerman, and in the 1970s and 1980s ably assisted by Harold Adel and then Saul Moroff, the residency at Jacobi became one of the most highly regarded Internal Medicine training programs in the country.<\/p>\n
Many Jacobi residents went on to successful careers in teaching, practice, research, and medical administration, and many became directors of services and divisions at teaching and community hospitals \u00a0(Table 1).<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
\n\t\t
\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>