Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New academic partnerships in global health: innovations at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Global health has become an increasingly important focus of education, research, and clinical service in North American universities and academic health centers. Today there are at least 49 academically based global health programs in the United States and Canada, as compared with only one in 1999. A new academic society, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, was established in 2008...

Cardiovascular Research Center at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Translational Mission.

The Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC) at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was established in 2007 and is focused on advancing our knowledge of cardiovascular diseases and translating these discoveries into effective therapies. The CVRC is currently housed in The Leon and Norma Hess Center for Science and Medicine, a state-ofthe-art clinical and research facility in New York’s Upper E...

Challenging traditional premedical requirements as predictors of success in medical school: the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Humanities and Medicine Program.

PURPOSE Students compete aggressively as they prepare for the MCAT and fulfill traditional premedical requirements that have uncertain educational value for medical and scientific careers and limit the scope of their liberal arts and biomedical education. This study assessed the medical school performance of humanities and social science majors who omitted organic chemistry, physics, and calcul...

Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital offers first-trimester screening across Ontario.

A Bronchogenic Cyst Presenting as Dysphagia

1Dr. DY Patil Medical College, Mumbai, India 2Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospitals, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY 3Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospitals, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY 4Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospitals, Icahn School of Med...