Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine at NYU is a medical school located on Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It provides medical education, research, and patient care.
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.
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 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 #28 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.
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