How an immigrant can get a sought-after medical profession in the USA: a school in New York announced a new recruitment

“You can have whatever you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want,” wrote the classic of American motivational literature Zig Ziglar. This principle is the main secret of success of the founders of the Concord Rusam school of medical professions.

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Founded in 2007 year licensed school Concord Rusam For more than 12 years, it has been helping its students get a number of medical professions that are in demand in America. Among its graduates are those who have only a graduation diploma, and those who immigrated to the United States, already having received a medical education in their homeland. Company president Yuri Kurashvili and school principal Zinaida Freink, who once arrived in the United States from St. Petersburg, and for nearly a decade and a half, helped thousands of new Russian-speaking immigrants find their place in American life. And this is just the beginning, confident in school.

Concord Rusam has already announced a new fall intake, which means that dozens of new students - many of whom come from post-Soviet countries - will be able to obtain a sought-after profession in the healthcare sector in the next six months.

Licensed school Concord rusam is located in a vibrant part of Manhattan, a stone's throw from Wall Street. A bulletin board in the lobby is covered with letters, cards and photographs of graduates—groups of smiling men and women waving at the lens. The school is deceptively quiet, with Registered Nurse classes taking place in a large classroom.

The lesson ends, pupils of different ages, English-speaking and Russian-speaking, come out of the class, they hold in their hands notebooks and handouts. A few more people remain in the classroom: they have surrounded the teacher, who patiently answers questions in Russian and in English. A camera is hanging above the desks: students who cannot attend lectures in New York but who want to study nursing in virtual Concord Rusam.

School director Zinaida Freink. Photo by Denis Cheredov

Director Zinaida Freink shows the school premises. After just 5 minutes of communication with this energetic woman, it is clear that she is a perfectionist who does not miss any details, keeping everything that happens at school under control. In a small classroom, handouts for the next lesson lie in neat piles: future Clinical Medical Assistants study anatomy.

“Handouts help students a lot,” says Zinaida. — All the most important things are presented here in an accessible form, with many diagrams and tables. And saving on textbooks - you yourself know how much they cost.”

Indeed, some textbooks cost $ 40 in the store, others $ 60, and the price of some books reaches $ 150. Buying all the textbooks on the list that other schools give out is very, very expensive, and people who recently arrived in the United States often simply cannot afford it.

The director comments: “I myself came to America in 2001, having worked as a doctor for 25 years and having experience teaching at a nursing school. I went through a program for retraining doctors to become nurses - I sat at night over textbooks, looking up every word in the dictionary. And there is not only a different language, there is a different way of thinking, and you need to change the medical thinking to the nursing one. Now we are helping students with this.”

In the room opposite, a hospital ward is recreated. In the bed lies a “patient” - a mannequin on which students train. There is a wheelchair against the wall, a walker nearby, crutches - safely transporting patients is among the long list of skills required by future specialists of any level in patient care: from HHA (Home Attendants) and CNA (Certified Nurse Aide) - to PCT (Patient Care Technicians). A stand with an IV, a machine for taking an ECG - the mannequin clearly has a busy “life”.

The mannequin clearly has a rich “life”, they joke at school. Photo: Concord Rusam

In the next classroom there was recently a lesson for future blood sampling specialists (Phlebotomist) - there are artificial hands there. “Blood collection is one of the shortest and most accessible programs in our school,” explains the director. “In just a few weeks, our students master the technique of drawing blood, storing and transporting samples, learn the labeling of tubes, pass a certificate exam - and can begin working in a medical office or even a mobile laboratory. Without this certificate, even a licensed nurse will not be allowed to draw blood - the rules in the USA are strict.”

Here is the laboratory in the school. Photo by Denis Cheredov

Another necessary room is the school's computer lab. Here, students practice taking tests and actively prepare for the Registered Nurse license exam: the school’s database stores approximately 30 thousand questions (and, of course, an analysis of the answers to them) ever encountered in this exam. A significant advantage for students is that right within the school’s walls you can take exams to obtain national certificates: Phlebotomy Technician, Electrocardiography Technician, Patient Care Technician, Clinical Medical Assistant, Medical Billing and Coding.

“About 100% of our graduates pass all qualifying exams the first time. 70 percent find work within the first or second month after receiving the certificate,” says the school director. And he adds: “The success of our students is largely due to the teachers. All of them speak several languages ​​(English and Russian, as well as Ukrainian), work as Registered Nurses and have licenses not only as medical workers, but also as teachers.”

The school helps students at all stages: from obtaining an interest-free loan for education, to obtaining professional skills earlier and starting to work, without wasting time until the actual employment. “We are approached by the heads of various medical institutions who want to hire our graduates.”

The school is contacted by the heads of various medical institutions who want to hire graduates. Photo: Concord Rusam

Often these are professionals who have previously studied with us and know the level of training. The requirements of employers are high now: everyone wants to find competent, responsible, energetic. I am happy to hire people of mature age: small children do not expect them at home, they can devote themselves to work. ”

About graduates Concord rusam The principal talks warmly, especially about those whom the school allowed to return to medicine.

“Our compatriots often come and go to work as drivers, sellers, and builders; even those who previously worked in medicine for 10-15 years or more. We give them the opportunity to return to their familiar environment, and people simply blossom, sparkle appears in their eyes, vitality returns. We had a student - a surgeon, who worked here for 8 years as an assistant to a sculptor (mason). He completed a retraining program for medical workers, passed the Registered Nurse license exam, we helped him get a job in the surgical department and... he looked 10 years younger. He sends photos of him standing in the operating room. Now in a different role, but he continues to do the surgery he loves.”

The school is proud of the achievements of students: someone has risen to supervisor positions, someone works right away at the 2 agency, someone prefers a more relaxed work in the day hospital for the elderly. Photo: Concord Rusam

The school is proud of the achievements of students: someone has risen to supervisor positions, someone works right away at the 2 agency, someone prefers a more relaxed work in the day hospital for the elderly. Over the course of a decade and a half, several thousand people have passed the retraining program for doctors at the Registered Nurse, and even more than a thousand nursing diploma holders from the country of their former residence received the American Registered Nurse diploma with our help.

And there are hundreds of graduates of other programs designed for people without medical experience: Phlebotomy Technician, Electrocardiography Technician, Patient Care Technician, Clinical Medical Assistant, Medical Billing and Coding. Among them are former conductors, athletes, artists - there was a place for everyone in the American healthcare system.

Students at Concord Rusam. Photo: Concord Rusam

“So you asked why, after retraining as a nurse, I didn’t go to work in a hospital, but began to study at school? I was also a passionate teacher of medicine. Students' achievements are what energizes and inspires me. Thanks to Concord rusam people get settled in America faster, begin to live with dignity - we ourselves were in the starting positions, and we know how much timely help can mean,” Zinaida brings the conversation to a close.

In the office of Zinaida Freink, a motivating maxim about the materialization of thoughts hangs in a prominent place:

Get what you planned, -

Wealth, poverty, death or salvation.

Do optimists dreams come true

Pessimists have fears.

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