Mount Sinai School of Medicine

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Mount Sinai School of Medicine


Established	1958
Type	Private
Dean	Dr. Kenneth L. Davis
Location	New York, New York, USA
Website	www.mssm.edu

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

Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU is a medical school located on Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Mount Sinai occupies a four block area along Central Park in the historic Carnegie Hill neighborhood of New York convenient to world-class shopping, museums, and restaurants. As one of the city's major medical centers, it provides outstanding medical education, research, and patient care.

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The Mount Sinai Hospital was founded in 1852 as the Jews' Hospital in the City of New York, but it was another century before a school of medicine was created at Mount Sinai. Over the years, Mount Sinai had built up a well deserved reputation for the excellence of its patient care and clinical research programs. The laboratories and wards of Mount Sinai had become a mecca for trainees interested in pathophysiology and the "chemistry" of disease.

In 1959, Mount Sinai was ranked 27th in the nation for NIH funds, which was truly exceptional for being a hospital with little academic affiliation. Schools and Colleges of Medicine from Columbia University, New York University and Cornell University have sought the opportunity to have The Mount Sinai Hospital as one of their primary teaching sites. To maintain its leadership position in the areas of clinical medicine and basic science research, it was decided to create the first, solely hospital-based medical school in the country. In 1963, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York (CUNY) opened its doors to an incoming class of future doctors. Mount Sinai School of Medicine became one of the top ranked medical schools in the country, with The Mount Sinai Hospital gaining international recognition for advances in patient care and disease discovery.

After an extensive search and analysis and after some false starts, on January 1, 1998, New York University hospital facilities were initially spun off as a separate, non-profit organization, and subsequently were joined with The 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 as a part of the University and in 1998, with the approval of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, itself a separate non-profit organization, changed its academic affiliation from CUNY to NYU.

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Mount Sinai's medical curriculum is based on the standard division of education into preclinical years 1 and 2 and clinical years 3 and 4. The first two years are strictly pass/fail. The third year features clinical rotations at The Mount Sinai Medical Center as well as affiliate hospitals, including Elmhurst Hospital--home of a world famous pediatric department-- and Queens Hospital in Queens, Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan, the Bronx VA Hospital, and Englewood Hospital and Jersey City Hospital in New Jersey.

The medical school currently ranks #27 according to U.S. News & World Report's listing of medical schools, and is the third highest ranked medical school in New York. In addition, Mount Sinai is ranked #20 in institutions receiving National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants.

The school's four missions of quality education, patient care, research, and community service follow the "Commitment of serving science." The majority of students participate in some kind of community service work before graduating from the school. This includes most notably 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 Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and provides quality health care, regardless of ability to pay, to uninsured residents of East Harlem.

Student body is very diverse, with the class of 2010 coming from 48 different undergraduate institutions