Mount Sinai School of Medicine

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Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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A Virtual Tour of Mount Sinai

• The MSSM community
• Educational Resources
• The Curriculum
• Life in the Big Apple
• Life in our Neighborhood

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Entry Pathways

• Regular entry
• HAM
• MSTP
• Other dual degree programs
• MDMPH
• MDMBA
• Under consideration Masters in Bioethics,
  Clinical Research, Med Ed

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Our Community

• 117,000 population 7.6 of Manhattans overall
  population
• 52.1 Hispanic Origin 35.7 Black, non-Hispanic
• Asthma more than 3X higher among all age groups
• HIV/AIDS among the highest incidence rates in
  all of NYC areas
• Diabetes 1/3 are obese

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Mount Sinai School of Medicine

• Total Faculty 3,448 (FT 1,679)
• National NIH Ranking 18
• USNWR Ranking 27
• Midway through complete renovation of educational
  space
• New ambulatory/clinical research building to open
  in early 2008
• Soon to break ground on new research building
  expands research space by 30

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Students

• Highly qualified
• From diverse cultural, ethnic and experiential
  backgrounds
• Entering Class of 2007 (140 students)
• Average age 23.6
• 43 took time off before medical school
• 22.1 URM
• 56 speak another language
• 55 undergraduate schools
• 30 NY State Residents
• 22 Humanities and Medicine, 12 MD/PhD

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Student Performance

• USMLE
• Class 2008 USMLE Step 1 mean 225 vs. 218 national
  mean
• Class 2007 USMLE Step 2 mean 238 vs. national
  mean 225 above mean in all subject areas
• MATCH students match to top tier programs in
  all disciplines throughout the U.S.

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• White Coat Ceremony/teacher and student codes of
  conduct
• EValue and Web-ed, Videotaped lectures course,
  faculty, peer evaluations
• Morchand Center - standardized patient facility
• Human Simulator Center
• Center for Bioethics and Professionalism
• Institute for Medical Education

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Educational Resources

• Medical Student Research Office
• Dr. Karen Zier www.mssm.edu/msro
• Research (80 of graduates)
• Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program
• Of non-MSTP students
• 15.8 students in class of 2009 on scholarly
  leave
• 75 of in class of 2010 did summer research or
  global health projects

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Educational Resources

• Center for Multicultural and Community Affairs -
  Dr. Gary Butts - www.mssm.edu/cmca
• Health Disparities Center
• Health Careers "Pipeline" Mentoring Programs
• Clinical Research and Education Training Programs
• Annual Community Health Week

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Educational ResourcesCOMMUNITY SERVICE (100)

• Global Health Center
• www.mssm-ghc.org
• Projects and partners in USA, India, Kenya,
  Uganda, Honduras
• East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP)

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• The Curriculum

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Year One Courses
PRISM - Professionalism Peer Assessment
BENCH TO BEDSIDE CLINICAL SELECTIVES
Orientation
The Art and Science of Medicine I
Intro to Emergency Medicine
Histology
Pathology
Epidemiology Prev Medicine
Team - Building
Gross Anatomy
Physiology
PMHD
Embryology
Molecules and Cells
Immunology
Behav Sci
Aug Sept Oct Nov
Dec Jan Feb March
April May June 2007



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Summer after Year One

• CLASS OF 2009
• Basic Science and Clinical Research
• Kenya
• Language immersion
• Honduras surveillance system
• ? Palliative Care research
• Oregon rural health
• Summited Mount Rainier!
• Research at the CDC
• Betty Ford Addiction Center

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Year Two Courses
The Art and Science of Medicine II
ASM II CSA - COMPASS I
Pharmacology
Brain Behavior
Psychopathology
Systems Based Pathophysiology
Genetics
Cardiovascular
Musculoskeletal
Blood Liver-GI
Endocrine Sexual Health Dermatology
Pulmonary Renal-GU
Sept Oct Nov
Dec Jan Feb
March April May 2007



2008
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Third Year Clerkships
Lottery System 4 Modules of 12 weeks
Introduction to Clinical Medicine - One Week
Elective or Vacation - Two Weeks Intersession -
One week
Pediatrics
OB/GYN
A B C D
In-Pt Med
In-Pt Med
Out-Pt Geri
Surgery
Anes/Elective
Psychiatry
Neurology
Fam Med
Weeks 2 4
6 8
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Clinical Resources

• Mount Sinai Hospital
• Founded in 1852
• 1,171-bed tertiary-care teaching hospital with a
  medical staff of nearly 1,800
• First description of Tay Sachs Disease (Bernard
  Sachs 1887), first description of characteristic
  rash of measles (Henry Koplick 1896), first use
  of blood typing prior to transfusion (Reuben
  Ottenberg 1908), first description of TTP (Eli
  Moschcowitz 1925), first description of regional
  enteritis (Burrill Crohn 1932), first description
  of collagen disease (George Baehr 1942)
• Extensive affiliate network

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Year Four Schedule Individually Designed

• Core Curriculum Requirements
• 4 weeks of Sub-Internship in Medicine or
  Pediatrics
• 4 weeks of Emergency Medicine
• 4 weeks of Critical Care / Physiology
• 2 weeks of Anatomic Radiology
• 21 weeks of Elective time available in Years 3
  and 4 Total

• Special Options
• Step II Board Review Course
• International travel
• Tailor-made electives
• Flexible scheduling and continuity with Year
  Three
• Generous interviewing and vacation allotment

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Excellence and Innovation

• East Harlem Walking Tour
• Humanities Curriculum Lincoln Center
  partnership
• Visiting Doctors
• Palliative Care
• Transplant
• Medicine
• World Trade
• Center Study
• PDAs
• Pilates and Yoga

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Outside the Classroom
COMMUNITY SERVICE ADVOCACY

• STUDENT COUNCIL
• STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

CLINICAL EXPOSURE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES
TEACHING EDUCATION
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Our Neighborhood

• Aron Hall
• Gym
• YMHA
• Rec office
• Central Park
• Reservoir