Clinical Connection

SUNY Upstate is one of 125 academic medical centers in the United States, and the only one in Central New York.

Academic medical centers, which are built around medical schools and teaching hospitals, lead the nation in conducting biomedical research, educating health professionals and providing the most advanced care to patients.

Being part of an academic medical center gives our students and research scientists access to biomedical specimens, instrumentation, and other resources associated with a major medical center. Our students and scientists are constantly rewarded with the knowledge that improvements in human health are based upon research like theirs.

Since we are an academic medical center, our graduate students have an opportunity to pursue basic research with an immediate clinical relevance.