In 2018, the MD program matriculated 140 students from 6,156 applicants.[9] The median undergraduate GPA of matriculants is 3.84, and the median
Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) score is in the 95th percentile,[5] but those admitted through the early-admissions program do not take the MCAT.
The
Medical Scientist Training Program is currently training over 90 MD/PhD students. As one of the most selective medical schools in the U.S., Mount Sinai received 8,276 applications for approximately 140 MD and MD/PhD positions for the 2021–2022 academic year.[5]
History
The first official proposal to establish a medical school at Mount Sinai was made to the hospital's trustees in January 1958. The school's philosophy was defined by
Hans Popper,
Horace Hodes,
Alexander Gutman, Paul Klemperer, George Baehr,
Gustave L. Levy, and
Alfred Stern, among others.[10] Milton Steinbach was the school's first president.[11]
Classes at Mount Sinai School of Medicine began in 1968, and the school soon became known as one of the leading medical schools in the U.S., as the hospital gained recognition for its laboratories, advances in patient care and the discovery of diseases.[12] The
City University of New York granted Mount Sinai's degrees.[10]The buildings at ISMMS were designed by notable architect
I. M. Pei.[citation needed]
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In 1999, Mount Sinai changed university affiliations from City University to
New York University but did not merge its operations with the
New York University School of Medicine.[13] This affiliation change took place as part of the merger in 1998 of Mount Sinai and NYU medical centers to create the Mount Sinai–NYU Medical Center and Health System.[10] In 2003, the partnership between the two dissolved.[14]
In 2007, Mount Sinai Medical Center's boards of trustees approved the termination of the academic affiliation between Mount Sinai and NYU.[15] In 2010, Mount Sinai was accredited by the
Middle States Commission on Higher Education and became an independent degree-granting institution.[16]
On November 14, 2012, it was announced that Mount Sinai School of Medicine would be renamed Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, following a US$200 million gift from New York businessman and philanthropist
Carl Icahn.[17]
In 2015, Mount Sinai announced partnerships with
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as
National Jewish Health, the nation's leading institutes for pediatric and pulmonary care respectively, leading to the creation of the Mount Sinai Children’s Heart Center[18] and the Mount Sinai – National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute.[19]
In March 2020,
Elmhurst Hospital Center, the public hospital that serves as a major training site for Mount Sinai students and residents, was the epicenter of New York City's initial COVID-19 surge, with Mount Sinai house staff and faculty serving as the city's first frontline workers treating patients infected with coronavirus.[20] Mount Sinai has since established itself at the forefront of research to understand and treat COVID-19, being named a lead site in a $470 million study to examine the long-term effects of COVID-19.[21]
2019 lawsuit
In April 2019, the Icahn School was named in a lawsuit filed against
Mount Sinai Health System and several employees of the Icahn School's Arnhold Institute for Global Health.[22] The suit was filed by eight current and former employees for "age and sex discrimination as well as improper reporting to funding agencies, misallocation of funds, failing to obtain Institutional Review Board approval prior to conducting research in violation of Mount Sinai and federal guidelines, and failing properly to adhere to the guidelines of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA."[23] The school denies the claims. More than 150 students at the Icahn School and more than 400 Icahn and Mount Sinai Health System faculty have signed letters, addressed to the Board of Trustees, calling on the system to investigate these allegations.[24][25]
Academics
Mount Sinai's medical curriculum is based on the standard program of medical education in the United States: the first two years of study are confined to the medical sciences, the latter to the study of clinical sciences. The first and second years are strictly pass/fail; the third and fourth years feature clinical rotations at
Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan) and
Elmhurst Hospital Center,[26] a major level 1 trauma center and safety-net hospital known for being situated in the "most ethnically diverse community in the world," serving an area of one million people with recent immigrants encompassing 112 different countries.[27] Other clerkship and residency training sites include the
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens,
James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the
Bronx,
Mount Sinai West,
Mount Sinai Morningside, and
Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital.
[28]
Mount Sinai's four-pronged missions (quality education, patient care, research, and community service) follow the "commitment of serving science," and the majority of students take part in some aspect of community service. This participation includes The East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership, which was developed by the students of Mount Sinai to create a health partnership with the East Harlem community, providing quality health care, regardless of ability to pay, to uninsured residents of East Harlem.
Admissions
Since 1989, Mount Sinai has featured a unique early-admissions program, The Humanities and Medicine Program, which guaranteed students admitted to the program a place in the medical school.[29] These students, known colloquially as "HuMeds," applied during the fall of their sophomore year in college or university and did not take the
Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). HuMeds made up about 25% of each year's ISMMS medical class.[30] In 2013, the Humanities and Medicine program was expanded into the
FlexMed program. Students admitted to the ISMMS via FlexMed can pursue any major and are required to take additional coursework in ethics, statistics, and health policy in lieu of or in addition to several of the traditional pre-med requirements. The school plans to recruit half of each incoming class through the FlexMed program.[31]
Individual educational programs are accredited through the appropriate bodies, including but not limited to
LCME,
CEPH,
ACCME and
ACGME.
The Annals of Global Health[32] was founded at Mount Sinai in 1934, then known as the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine. Levy Library Press publishes The Journal of Scientific Innovation in Medicine.[33]
Reputation
Mount Sinai was ranked 11th overall among research-based medical schools in the 2023 edition of U.S. News & World Report.[4]
The
Mount Sinai Hospital, the teaching hospital of ISMMS, was listed in the 2022 edition of U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll, with multiple specialties ranked in the top 20 nationwide (geriatrics #1, cardiology #6, endocrinology #10, neurology & neurosurgery #10, orthopedics #14, rehabilitation #14, gastroenterology #15, urology #16, pulmonology #20).[34] The
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked #14 in ophthalmology.[35]
Mount Sinai was ranked 8th among medical schools in the U.S. receiving
NIH grants in 2022,[36] and 2nd in research dollars per principal investigator among U.S. medical schools by the
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).[37]
Mount Sinai was the first U.S. medical school to establish a Department of Geriatrics in 1982.[38]
Mount Sinai's PhD program was ranked 3rd among 53 U.S. institutions in a survey conducted by
Academic Analytics in 2008 and 7th on the organization's list of top 20 specialized research universities in biomedical health sciences.[39]
Judith Aberg, infectious disease researcher, George Baehr Professor of Clinical Medicine and Dean of System Operations for Clinical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David H. Adams, co-creator of the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring and the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II degenerative
annuloplasty ring[42]
Joshua B. Bederson, professor and chief of
neurosurgery and the first neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai to receive an
NIH R01 grant as principal investigator[43]
Deepak L. Bhatt, American interventional cardiologist known for novel clinical trials in cardiovascular prevention, intervention, and heart failure.[45]
Steven J. Burakoff, cancer specialist, author of both Therapeutic Immunology (2001) and Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (1990), and the director of Mount Sinai Hospital's Cancer Institute
Michelle Copeland, D.M.D., M.D., assistant clinical professor of surgery,[53] particularly known for her expertise on ankle
liposuction[54][55] and the treatment of
gynecomastia[56][57]
Andy S. Jagoda, professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and editor or author of 13 books, including The Good Housekeeping Family First Aid Book (
ISBN0688178944) and the textbook Neurologic Emergencies (
ISBN0071402926)
Mark G. Lebwohl, the Sol and Clara Kest Professor and chairman of the department of
dermatology and author of leading book on dermatologic therapy, Treatment of Skin Disease (
ISBN0323036031).
I Michael Leitman, professor of surgery and dean for graduate medical education
Blair Lewis, clinical professor of
gastroenterology and instrumental in developing the International Conference of Capsule Endoscopy's consensus statement for clinical application of the
capsule endoscopy[79]
Marek Mlodzik, chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, professor of oncological sciences and
ophthalmology[85]
David Muller, co-founder of the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program, the largest academic physician home visiting program in the U.S.[86]
Eric J. Nestler, dean for academic and scientific affairs and director of the Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at
Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York [87]
Michael Palese, medical director of the department of
urology and among the few surgeons in the U.S. trained in open,
laparoscopic and robotic kidney procedures.[89]
Sean P. Pinney, director of both the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program and the Pulmonary Hypertension Program[90]
John Puskas, first totally
thoracoscopic bilateral pulmonary vein isolation procedure and co-editor of ''State of the Art Surgical Coronary Revascularization[91] the first textbook solely devoted to coronary artery surgery.
Joy S. Reidenberg, Professor of Anatomy, starred in many TV documentaries on PBS, BBC, CBC, SBS, NatGeo, Science Channel, Discovery, Channel 4 (UK), and many other networks, including Inside Nature's Giants, Sex in the Wild, Born in the Wild, Mythical Beasts, Lost Beasts Unearthed, Whale Detective, Humpback Whale: A Detective Story, Brave New World with Stephen Hawking, Big Blue Live, Wild Alaska Live, When Whales Could Walk, Mystery of the Walking Whale, etc.
John Rowe, CEO and executive chairman of
Aetna from 2000 to 2006
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