Employee Handbook - Mount Sinai Hospital

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Mount Sinai is used as a resource both nationally
and internationally for acute care, and also serves
as a regional leader for a number of diseases, conditions,
and disciplines, including AIDS,
Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, gene therapy, geriatrics,
hemophilia, high-risk pregnancy, neonatal
specialty care, organ transplantation, palliative
care, pediatric respiratory disease, space medicine,
and spinal cord and traumatic brain injury.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Built around the revolutionary “Mount Sinai
Concept,” which advocated “balancing biologic
thinking in medicine with concern for the whole
patient,” Mount Sinai School of Medicine opened
its doors in 1968, ensuring the Medical Center’s
ability to pursue the growing promise of biomedical
research, while continuing to train students in
the deepest humanistic traditions of medicine.
In a few short decades, the dual focus of the
School—serving science and society—has propelled
it to a position of prominence among the
country’s elite academic medical institutions.
Today, the School is internationally recognized for
groundbreaking clinical and basic-science research,
as well as innovative approaches to medical education.
It is particularly renowned for:
• Translating scientific discoveries into improvements
in patient care. The School has ranked
for several years among the nation’s top 25
medical schools in support granted by the
National Institutes of Health.
• Unique educational programs, such as the
Humanities in Medicine program, which creates
opportunities for liberal arts students to pursue
medical studies and reflects the School’s commitment
to preparing well-rounded human
beings who can bring a variety of perspectives
to the field of medicine;