The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education

1. The Sophie Davis School
of Biomedical Education
Steven Bier MD

2. The Sophie Davis School of
Biomedical Education
Well before Steven Bier, MD, became a prominent
radiologist, he was a student at Brooklyn’s John Dewey
High School considering his options for going to medical
school. Eventually, Dr. Bier settled on the Sophie Davis
School of Biomedical Education, a then-experimental
program at the City College of New York that integrates two
years of medical school into its undergraduate studies. Like
many graduates of the Sophie Davis School, Dr. Steven
Bier went on to a long and successful medical career, and
currently works as an attending radiologist at the Jersey
City Medical Center.

3. The Sophie Davis School of
Biomedical Education
After earning a BS degree from City College, students of
the Sophie Davis School require only two more years at an
affiliated medical school to obtain their MD degrees. At the
time of its founding in 1973, the Sophie Davis School was a
novel approach to providing medical education targeted to
under-represented minority populations and represented an
innovative solution for supplying primary care physicians to
underserved communities. Several decades later, the
program is now a proven success, with a student body of
approximately 350, a parallel Physician Assistant Program,
and extensive medical research opportunities.