Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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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.
Former names | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
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Type | Private medical school |
Established | 1963; 61 years ago (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 |
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 2018, the MD program matriculated 140 students from 6,156 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,[7] 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.[7]