Working While in the Program???

Yes!  You can work!  And many of my classmates do work!  

If you are a financially strapped student, know that it is possible to both work and get good grades.

 The program begins in June, and is pretty busy through August, so  I don't really recommend working until September.  The second summer session is kind of hellish actually.  People managed to work through it though.

One of my classmates worked as a PCT (Patient Care Technician) through the entire program.  Start to finish.  Many students got jobs working as waiters, bartenders, or baby sitters.  Another classmate was a unit clerk at a hospital.  One classmate worked as a valet, parking cars.  Another classmate worked as a lifeguard.  

Downstate doesn't recommend that you work while in the accelerated program.  And some professors will be totally inflexible with you, but still more than thirty percent of the students in the program started working by the start of the new year.