Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Community Emphasis

Our Medical Students and the Community
The depth of the School's engagement in the community is a deciding factor for many of our students. Our graduates overwhelmingly cite this aspect of their training as among the most enlightening and formative of their experiences here. With every graduating class, Mount Sinai’s tradition of community service continuously renews and replenishes itself.

Learning and Community Immersion
One hundred percent of Mount Sinai Medical school students document a substantial volunteer experience during their four years of training including mentoring high school students, providing health education, tutoring elementary school students and serving meals in soup kitchens and homeless shelters.

The school also has a deep and long-standing commitment to developing a medical profession that mirrors the demographics of the population as whole. As a consequence, our student body is one of the most diverse of any U.S. medical school.

In 2006-2007, underrepresented minorities represented 21 percent of the entering class at Mount Sinai.