Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Medical School Overview

U.S. News Rankings

Ranking score and category

Research rank Category Name #18 Best Research

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Primary care rank Category Name #51 Best Primary Care

Specialties #1 in Geriatrics

Medical School Overview

The medical school at Mount Sinai School of Medicine has an application deadline of October 15. The application fee at Mount Sinai School of Medicine is $105. Its tuition is full-time: $41,238. The faculty-student ratio at Mount Sinai School of Medicine is 2.2:1. The medical school has 1,451 full- and part-time faculty on staff.

Manhattan’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine has been a leader in curriculum innovation, introducing the nation’s first academic departments of geriatrics, environmental medicine, and occupational medicine. The school also runs unique institutes, such as the Morchand Center for Clinical Competence, aimed at helping students and physicians boost their communication skills, and the Center for Jewish Genetic Diseases, which focuses on disease afflicting Ashkenazi Jews, a community from Eastern Europe. Medical students run the East Harlem Outreach Partnership, or EHHOP, which offers free healthcare to the East Harlem community in New York.

The medical school is adjacent to New York’s Central Park and near Mount Sinai Medical Center, a highly ranked facility best known for its geriatrics department. Notable alumni of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine include Balamurali Ambati, who graduated at age 17 and was recognized as the world’s youngest doctor in 1995, and Steven Galson, former surgeon general of the United States.

Admissions

Applications accepted	June 1 (Begins) October 15 (Ends)
Application fee	$105
AMCAS application accepted	Yes
AACOMAS application accepted	No

Academics

Full-time faculty	1,244
Full-time faculty-student ratio	2.2:1

Student Body

Total medical school enrollment	568
Gender distribution

Cost

Tuition
Full-time: $41,238
Required fees	$5,380

Residency

Graduates admitted to their first-choice residency program	N/A
Most popular residency and specialty programs (2011 and 2012 classes)
anesthesiology orthopaedic surgery emergency medicine pediatrics internal medicine psychiatry neurology radiology - diagnostic obstetrics and gynecology surgery - general

* Medical School Overview details based on 2012 data