Mount Sinai School of Medicine


 * This page is about a medical school in New York. For other uses, please see: Mount Sinai (disambiguation)

Mount Sinai School of Medicine is a medical school found in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The official name is Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University due to its academic affiliation with New York University (NYU). However, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM) is independent of NYU; that is, MSSM has its own facilities, board of trustees, administration, student body, faculty, admissions offices, tuition fees, and endowment. MSSM also raises its own funds.

MSSM and the Mount Sinai Hospital occupy a four-block area adjacent to Central Park in the community of Carnegie Hill. MSSM and Mount Sinai Hospital comprise the Mount Sinai Medical Center.

History
Mount Sinai Hospital was established in 1852 as the Jews' Hospital in the City of New York, but another century would pass before a school of medicine was created. Throughout the years, Mount Sinai Hospital built a well-earned reputation for the excellence of its patient care and clinical research programs. The laboratories and wards of Mount Sinai Hospital had become a mecca for trainees interested in pathophysiology and the "chemistry" of disease.

In the late 1950s, Mount Sinai Hospital was ranked #27 in the United States (U.S.) among institutions receiving National Institute of Health (NIH) funds, an exceptional achievement for a hospital with little academic affiliation. Schools and colleges of medicine from Columbia University to NYU to Cornell University have sought the opportunity to use Mount Sinai Hospital as one of their primary teaching sites. For Mount Sinai Hospital to maintain its leadership position in the areas of clinical medicine and basic science research, to create the first, solely hospital-based medical school in the U.S. was decided. MSSM was chartered in 1963; in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York (CUNY) commenced its first class of future physicians. MSSM quickly became one of the leading medical schools in the U.S., with Mount Sinai Hospital gaining international recognition for advances in patient care and the discovery of disease.

After an extensive search and analysis and after some setbacks, on January 1, 1998, NYU's hospital facilities were initially spun off as a separate, non-profit organization, and subsequently were joined with Mount Sinai Hospital to form Mount Sinai-NYU Health, an umbrella organization that joined the two hospitals. Throughout this process, the New York University School of Medicine continued to be a part of NYU; in 1999, with the approval of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, MSSM, itself a separate non-profit organization, changed its academic affiliation from CUNY to NYU. However, the merger between NYU Medical Center and Mount Sinai Medical Center and their facilities has since been dissolved, though MSSM's academic affiliation with NYU remains.

Profile
MSSM’s medical curriculum is based on the standard division of U.S. medical education into the study of the medical sciences in the first two years and the study of the clinical sciences in the last two years. The first two years at MSSM are strictly pass/fail. The third and fourth years feature clinical rotations at Mount Sinai Medical Center as well as affiliate hospitals, including Elmhurst Hospital Center -- established the first children's health center in the U.S. -- Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens in Queens, Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan, Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx, and Englewood Hospital Medical Center and the Jersey City Medical Center in New Jersey.

According to U.S. News & World Report, among medical schools, MSSM is ranked #27 in the U.S. in medical research and #2 in the U.S. in geriatrics. MSSM is also ranked #20 in the U.S. among medical schools receiving National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants.

MSSM’s four missions of quality education, patient care, research, and community service follow the "commitment of serving science." The majority of students take part in some aspect of community service before graduating from MSSM. Notably, this participation includes The East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP), which was developed by the students of Mount Sinai School of Medicine to create a health partnership between the East Harlem community and the MSSM, providing quality health care, regardless of ability to pay, to uninsured residents of East Harlem.

MSSM's student body is diverse, with the class of 2010 representing 48 colleges and universities.

MSSM also features a unique early admissions program called The Humanities and Medicine Program, which guarantees admitted students to that program a place in the medical school. These students, known colloquially as "HuMeds," apply during the fall of their sophomore year in college or university and do not take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). HuMeds make up about 25% of each year's MSSM medical class.

External link

 * Official site

Mount Sinai School of Medicine マウントサイナイ医科大学