Newsday Nielsen quoted on bringing Caribbean students to U.S. for clinical rotations

Release Date: July 7, 2008 This content is archived.

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Nancy Nielsen, associate dean for medical education and president of the American Medical Association, is quoted in an article in Newsday about a $19 million deal between Nassau University Medical Center and the American University of the Caribbean Medical School to will bring 64 AUC students to the medical center for their third and fourth year clinical rotations. "Everybody in the country is worried that this will spread. It is a major threat to U.S. medical schools," she said.

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