Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (MSSM)

The Icana School of Medicine Mount Sinai Medical Center or Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (MSSM) is a non-profit private educational institution (New York, USA).

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is a global leader in medical and scientific education, biomedical research and patient care. This is a medical school for the health care system, which includes seven hospital campuses and has more than 5,000 teachers and nearly 2,000 students. In research activities in the field of biomedical discoveries and achievements, priority is given to interdisciplinary research.

Located at the intersection of East Harlem and Upper East Side, Icahn Medical School is eight blocks from Mount Sinai Hospital, combining academic and clinical skills for the successful treatment of patients.

The campus is in the city. It has its own library, sports facilities, restaurants, cafes, medical center for students. Those who wish are provided with a hostel.

Research activities

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is a center for collaborative, interdisciplinary research. Using advanced technologies and approaches, scientists and clinicians are expanding the modern boundaries of biomedicine. The main research institutes under the auspices of the Icahn School of Medicine:

• Mount Sinai Institute of Addiction (providing comprehensive and personalized care to patients with alcohol, psychoactive and behavioral addictions).
• Arnhold Institute for Global Health (interdisciplinary program to improve the health of people around the world by creating global partnerships in research, education and patient care).
• Stem Cell Institute (stem cell research).
• Research Institute of Women's Family Health (the institute develops a competitive research program for the development of science regarding women's health throughout their lives).
• Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
• (conducting an individualized risk assessment of the disease and improving the response of patients to treatment with the help of innovative genetic research)
• Eye and Eye Research Institute
• The Friedman Brain Institute (an interdisciplinary clinical and research center for determining the mechanisms underlying brain and spinal cord disorders and for translating these results into preventive or restorative interventions).
• Icahn Data Institute and Genomic Technologies (the institute focuses on a multiscale view of biology, using big data analytics to create predictive models that offer new insights into the disease).
• Institute of Health
• Institute of Medical Education (promotion of innovative medical education and scholarships, as well as recognition and awarding of outstanding teachers).
• Pediatrics (translational research enterprise with the mission of developing knowledge and methods of treating diseases affecting infants, children and adolescents).
• The development and discovery of drugs (the study of the possibilities of applying new biological knowledge with the help of new therapies).
• Vaccine development (expansion of the translational aspects of Mount Sinai antimicrobial research by creating programs for the development of vaccines, antiviral and antimicrobial drugs).
• Institute of Biomedicine Systems Mount Sinai.
• Mount Sinai Institute of Translational Epidemiology.
• Mount Sinai Institute of Precision Immunology.
• Mount Sinai Institute for Translational and Molecular Visualization.
• Cancer Institute.

To enroll in school, an applicant must complete a course of study for one year and provide a document of academic achievement in the following key subjects at an accredited university or college in the United States or the world, including:

• Biology;
• General chemistry;
• Physics.

One academic semester, or the equivalent of working in a laboratory in the following areas:

• Organic chemistry;
• Biochemistry.

Currently, the School of Medicine Icahn does not accept students who want to transfer from other medical universities.

In addition to these conditions, you must pass the exams and submit a letter of recommendation from the preliminary medical advisory committee of the previous college, sent through the AMCAS system.

If the college does not have a preliminary medical advisory committee, a letter of recommendation from a member of your university’s science department and a freelance teacher will be required.

The application must also be submitted through the AMCAS system. The medical school's admissions office, the ISMMS faculty team and senior medical students evaluate each application holistically and carefully. The medical school's admissions office selects candidates for an interview, assessing their achievements in undergraduate studies, their commitment to medicine, and participation in scientific endeavors.

In the framework of consideration of applications and decision-making factors such as the effectiveness and activity of the undergraduate program, work experience, MCAT points, as well as recommendations of the university pre-meditational advisory committee or the university faculty are taken into account.

Next, the applicant receives an invitation to a personal interview. Applicants who are invited to interview will spend the day at a meeting of students and teachers of the school. Each entrant will have two 30-minute interviews with members of the school admissions office. These are either two teachers or faculty members and a senior medical student. Interview invitations are sent from August to February, and are held from September to February.

What does the admissions committee evaluate

Medical school Icahn is looking for candidates who are ready to become the next generation of expert clinicians, medical scientists and medical educators.

Qualities and criteria for a successful candidate:

• Stability, adaptability and resourcefulness;
• Motivation;
• Curiosity;
• Discipline;
• Empathy;
• Self-awareness;
• Innovation;
• Social consciousness;
• Caring;
• Cultural competence and tolerance;
• Teamwork and collaboration;
• Ethical responsibility towards oneself and others;
• Ability to lead and make decisions.

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision