We need a merger, stat!

Hundreds of doctors-in-training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx will rally at the school Tuesday in support of a proposed partnership with healthcare giant Montefiore Medical Center.

Montefiore had agreed last May to take over the finances and day-to-day operations of the world-renowned but ailing Morris Park medical school from its operator, Yeshiva University.

But talks were scrapped in December because the parties were unable to agree on certain terms, a Yeshiva spokesman said.

Nearly 200 medical students from the schools four-year program hope to revive negotiations by showing enthusiastic support for a merger, according to Albert Einsteins student council.

The students who go here really want the deal to go through, said Dayle Hodge, 31, the councils chief delegate.

The rally is meant to nudge them in the right direction.

The student body fears the cash-strapped school will be forced to lay off nontenured faculty or get rid of the research-based graduate program, Hodge said.

Such a move would be catastrophic, the fifth-year student said.

Medical students would still be able to get their degrees, but the prestige would go way down, Hodge said.

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Einstein medical students push for Montefiore takeover