Shaping the future of education in health care and medical sciences
How Mount Sinai Is Transforming Geriatrics Training to Close the Workforce Gap
Nick Safian, MD, remembers when his grandparents began showing signs of dementia while he was in college. His family faced difficult decisions about where they would live, how to keep them safe, and how to preserve their independence. He watched the strain on his...
How to Navigate Couples Match for Residency
It began with a shared connection: Jiwoo Park and Daniel Kwon, students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, met on the second day of orientation. When Ms. Park introduced herself as being from Colorado, her classmates told her she “had to meet Daniel,” who...
Sparking an Interest in Science and Medicine in Youths
It can never be too early to get children interested in the fields of science, medicine, and health care, says Kenya Townsend, Director of the Center for Excellence in Youth Education (CEYE) at Mount Sinai. That has been the mission of the program since its founding...
Match Day 2026: The Next Step Toward Driving Change
Each student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has their own personal story about what led them to want to become doctors and researchers, but they share a common vision: to improve health care as we currently know it. For this year’s graduating students,...
Advancing Toward Medicine: How Mount Sinai’s MSBS Program Is Shaping a Path to a Physician-Scientist Career
Alexander Forrest is a first-year student in Track 1 of the Master of Science in Biomedical Science program at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with a concentration in Immunology. In this Q&A, he discusses...
Getting a Head Start With AI at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Most first-year medical students spend their time mastering anatomy, memorizing biochemical pathways, and adjusting to the pace of clinical training. For Alvira Tyagi, that first year coincided with an opportunity to understand the rapid transformation in how patients seek health information with AI tools. “I did not expect to be involved in AI-driven health care research so early as a student,” says Ms. Tyagi. Read about how she began working at the intersection of AI and health care, and the importance for students to be familiar with this rapidly evolving field.