Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Receives Arnold Gold Foundation’s Recognition for Humanism in Healthcare
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has been awarded the prestigious Arnold Gold Foundation’s “Outstanding” ranking, in recognition of the school’s chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) and its work throughout the school year.
The Gold Humanism Honor Society at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai honors those students who have demonstrated humanistic values in their clinical training.
“We are so proud of the way in which our students continue to uphold the values and legacy of our medical school and Health System, never wavering from our focus on justice, equity, and humanism in the context of their work as doctors, scientists, and advocates for our patients,” says David Muller, MD, Dean for Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
This year, 19 students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai were inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. During the year, these students came together to collaborate on two projects focused on humanism in medicine, including “Photovoice,”in which students worked with a wide spectrum of Mount Sinai patients who agreed to photograph themselves to share their personal stories. Patients were asked to use the photos to address questions such as, “What is hard about being a patient?” and “What does a good day look like? What does a bad day look like?”
A separate project involved a food fair, conceived by students to reflect the ethnic and culinary diversity of the community where The Mount Sinai Hospital is situated, straddling the distinct neighborhoods of Manhattan’s Upper East Side and East Harlem.
In announcing the recognition, the foundation described the purposeful activities that it hoped to highlight through the award:
- Increase engagement and empathy with the diverse patient community they serve
- Encourage clinician resilience and team-building
- Teach advocacy and leadership skills so critical for today’s clinicians
- Highlight the importance of compassionate care at all levels in the healthcare workplace
In congratulating the Icahn School of Medicine students, the foundation’s leadership offered this thought: “It is always reassuring for patients, alumni, and donors to see how the medical institution they depend on focuses its up-and-coming classes of physicians on the importance of keeping health care human.”
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. The Health System includes approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses across seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, a school of nursing, and schools of medicine and graduate school of biomedical sciences.
As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.
Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York and recognized as one of the world’s top Smart Hospital by Newsweek. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.
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