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Former names | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
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Type | Private medical school |
Established | 1963 |
Parent institution | Mount Sinai Health System |
Endowment | $1.7 billion (2017) [1] |
Dean | Dennis S. Charney |
President & CEO | Kenneth L. Davis |
Academic staff | 1,650+ full-time
[2] 6,000+ total [3] |
Students | 560+ MD students 90+ MD/PhD students 270+ PhD students [3] |
Location | , , United States |
Campus | Urban |
Website |
icahn |
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City, New York, United States. The school is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, which manages eight hospital campuses in the New York metropolitan area, including Mount Sinai Hospital and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Mount Sinai's faculty as of 2022 includes 23 elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [4] and 40 members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. [5]
In the 2023-2024 term, the MD program matriculated 120 students from 8,514 applicants. [6] The median undergraduate GPA of matriculants was reportedly 3.84, and the median Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) score at that time was in 95th percentile, [3] but those admitted through the early-admissions program do not take the MCAT.[ citation needed]
The Medical Scientist Training Program is currently[ when?] 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. [3]
The first official proposal to establish a medical school at Mount Sinai was made to the hospital's trustees in January 1958. The school contemplated a new kind of medical institution encompassing a medical school supported by a teaching hospital. It would include an undergraduate school representing allied health fields, a graduate school of biological sciences, and a graduate school of physical sciences. [7]
This philosophy was defined by Hans Popper, Horace Hodes, Alexander Gutman, Paul Klemperer, George Baehr, Gustave L. Levy, and Alfred Stern, among others. [8] Milton Steinbach was the school's first president. [9]
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. [10] The City University of New York granted Mount Sinai's degrees. [8] The buildings at ISMMS were designed by notable architect I. M. Pei.[ citation needed]
This article is missing information about must be some notable history between inception and 1999.(November 2022) |
Mount Sinai's degrees were granted by City University of New York. before 1999, when Mount Sinai changed university affiliations from City University to New York University but without merging its operations with the New York University School of Medicine. 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. [11] In 2003, the partnership between the two dissolved. [12] [13]
In 2007, Mount Sinai Medical Center's boards of trustees approved the termination of the academic affiliation between Mount Sinai and NYU and it was officially terminated in 2008. [14] In 2010, Mount Sinai was accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and became an independent degree-granting institution.
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. [15] [16]
The 18-story Icahn Institute provides 350,000 sf of laboratory, treatment, and education space for the School of Medicine. [17] The campus is located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, stretching from East 98th Street to East 102nd Street.
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]
The first diagnosed COVID-19 case in New York City was by Mount Sinai emergency department's Dr. Angela Chen. [22]
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 front-line workers treating patients infected with coronavirus. [23] 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. [24]
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. [25] 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." [26] 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. [27] [28]
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, [29] 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. [30] 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. [31]
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.
Applicants are required to have a bachelor's degree, a competitive MCAT score, and coursework including biology, physics, English and chemistry. A cumulative GPA above is 3.5 is reportedly required. [32] Individual educational programs are accredited through the appropriate bodies, including but not limited to LCME, CEPH, ACCME and ACGME.
College freshmen or sophomores can approach admissions through the FlexMed Program, allowing them to apply for early acceptance regardless of prior majors. [33] [34]
The school only offers graduate degrees: [35]
ISMMS was named #46 in global university rankings as determined by U.S. News & World Report for 2022-2023. Rankings by subject for the same period include: [36]
Ranking | Subject |
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59 | Biology and Biochemistry |
7 | Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems |
8 | Cell Biology |
24 | Clinical Medicine |
59 | Endocrinology and Metabolism |
6 | Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
17 | Immunology |
147 | Infectious Diseases |
29 | Microbiology |
11 | Molecular Biology and Genetics |
25 | Neuroscience and Behavior |
53 | Oncology |
103 | Pharmacology and Toxicology |
41 | Psychiatry/Psychology |
36 | Public, Environmental and Occupational Health |
18 | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging |
190 | Social Sciences and Public Health |
46 | Surgery |
The Annals of Global Health [42] 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. [43]
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Former names | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
---|---|
Type | Private medical school |
Established | 1963 |
Parent institution | Mount Sinai Health System |
Endowment | $1.7 billion (2017) [1] |
Dean | Dennis S. Charney |
President & CEO | Kenneth L. Davis |
Academic staff | 1,650+ full-time
[2] 6,000+ total [3] |
Students | 560+ MD students 90+ MD/PhD students 270+ PhD students [3] |
Location | , , United States |
Campus | Urban |
Website |
icahn |
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City, New York, United States. The school is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, which manages eight hospital campuses in the New York metropolitan area, including Mount Sinai Hospital and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Mount Sinai's faculty as of 2022 includes 23 elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [4] and 40 members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. [5]
In the 2023-2024 term, the MD program matriculated 120 students from 8,514 applicants. [6] The median undergraduate GPA of matriculants was reportedly 3.84, and the median Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) score at that time was in 95th percentile, [3] but those admitted through the early-admissions program do not take the MCAT.[ citation needed]
The Medical Scientist Training Program is currently[ when?] 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. [3]
The first official proposal to establish a medical school at Mount Sinai was made to the hospital's trustees in January 1958. The school contemplated a new kind of medical institution encompassing a medical school supported by a teaching hospital. It would include an undergraduate school representing allied health fields, a graduate school of biological sciences, and a graduate school of physical sciences. [7]
This philosophy was defined by Hans Popper, Horace Hodes, Alexander Gutman, Paul Klemperer, George Baehr, Gustave L. Levy, and Alfred Stern, among others. [8] Milton Steinbach was the school's first president. [9]
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. [10] The City University of New York granted Mount Sinai's degrees. [8] The buildings at ISMMS were designed by notable architect I. M. Pei.[ citation needed]
This article is missing information about must be some notable history between inception and 1999.(November 2022) |
Mount Sinai's degrees were granted by City University of New York. before 1999, when Mount Sinai changed university affiliations from City University to New York University but without merging its operations with the New York University School of Medicine. 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. [11] In 2003, the partnership between the two dissolved. [12] [13]
In 2007, Mount Sinai Medical Center's boards of trustees approved the termination of the academic affiliation between Mount Sinai and NYU and it was officially terminated in 2008. [14] In 2010, Mount Sinai was accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and became an independent degree-granting institution.
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. [15] [16]
The 18-story Icahn Institute provides 350,000 sf of laboratory, treatment, and education space for the School of Medicine. [17] The campus is located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, stretching from East 98th Street to East 102nd Street.
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]
The first diagnosed COVID-19 case in New York City was by Mount Sinai emergency department's Dr. Angela Chen. [22]
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 front-line workers treating patients infected with coronavirus. [23] 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. [24]
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. [25] 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." [26] 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. [27] [28]
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, [29] 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. [30] 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. [31]
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.
Applicants are required to have a bachelor's degree, a competitive MCAT score, and coursework including biology, physics, English and chemistry. A cumulative GPA above is 3.5 is reportedly required. [32] Individual educational programs are accredited through the appropriate bodies, including but not limited to LCME, CEPH, ACCME and ACGME.
College freshmen or sophomores can approach admissions through the FlexMed Program, allowing them to apply for early acceptance regardless of prior majors. [33] [34]
The school only offers graduate degrees: [35]
ISMMS was named #46 in global university rankings as determined by U.S. News & World Report for 2022-2023. Rankings by subject for the same period include: [36]
Ranking | Subject |
---|---|
59 | Biology and Biochemistry |
7 | Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems |
8 | Cell Biology |
24 | Clinical Medicine |
59 | Endocrinology and Metabolism |
6 | Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
17 | Immunology |
147 | Infectious Diseases |
29 | Microbiology |
11 | Molecular Biology and Genetics |
25 | Neuroscience and Behavior |
53 | Oncology |
103 | Pharmacology and Toxicology |
41 | Psychiatry/Psychology |
36 | Public, Environmental and Occupational Health |
18 | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging |
190 | Social Sciences and Public Health |
46 | Surgery |
The Annals of Global Health [42] 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. [43]
This section needs additional citations for
verification. (November 2022) |
40°47′22″N 73°57′14″W / 40.789475°N 73.953781°W