The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked among the top 20 medical schools for research in the United States, according to the 2018-2019 U.S. News & World Report “Best Medical Schools” rankings released on Tuesday, March 20. Mount Sinai ranked No. 18 among the 124 medical schools that were measured this year, an improvement of four places over the previous year.
“It is an honor to be recognized as having one of the nation’s best schools and an even greater honor to lead a team of talented faculty and researchers who challenge the limits of science and medicine, seek breakthrough treatments for the most serious medical conditions, and train the next generation of great physicians and scientists,” says Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System. “Our School of Medicine strives to be an innovative leader in medicine and science where future leaders are formed in a diverse, inclusive, and high-impact academic environment.” The new rankings were released online in the 2019 edition of U.S. News & World Report “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” The rankings are based on statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s faculty, research, and students. Criteria used in the medical school rankings include peer assessment surveys, research activity, grade point averages, MCAT scores, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.
Dr. Charney adds, “This year marks the 50th anniversary of our School of Medicine. Since our inception, we have set out to break the model of medical education and research through a diverse and inclusive student and faculty body, an entrepreneurial vision that disrupts the status quo, a passionate focus on community medicine, and an eye toward solving medical and scientific problems that greatly impact the lives of many. Through the years, our faculty has made many great contributions to medical science, and our talented students continue to take risks, innovate, and push the boundaries of thought to drive change.”
Separate from the U.S. News rankings, the Icahn School of Medicine in 2017 was named one of the top 10 research institutions in the world based on its contributions to published research that is later cited by other organizations in patent development. Those rankings, created by the journal Nature in its Nature Index 2017 Innovation supplement, used a unique set of metrics to determine the key academic players in the world whose ideas may shape tomorrow’s inventions.
Only a few medical schools—Icahn School of Medicine, Stanford University, and the University of California, San Francisco—have earned distinction by multiple indicators: they are U.S. News & World Report top 20 medical schools aligned with top “Honor Roll” hospitals, among the top 15 in NIH funding, and are among the top 10 most innovative research institutions as ranked by Nature. “This reflects a special level of excellence in education, clinical practice, and research,” says Dr. Charney.