Medical Students Dared to Enter the Tank

Mount Sinai School of Medicine Photo by Robert Caplin

Joseph Mari, Susan Lerner, MD,; and Marc Napp, MD grill the medical students after hearing their patient safety and quality care improvement proposals.

InFocus 7 at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai culminated with third-year medical students participating in the School’s first Med Ed Tank—a series of student pitches modeled after the popular ABC television series “Shark Tank.” InFocus weeks are part of the School’s new MD Program curriculum, where students are immersed in innovative courses outside of the classroom to focus their training on research methods, global health, service learning, leadership, scientific innovation, and patient safety and quality care—the latter being the focus for InFocus 7. (more…)

25 Years and Counting

Nada Gligorov, PhD of the Bioethics Program at ISMMS responds to a research presentation.

Nada Gligorov, PhD of the Bioethics Program at ISMMS responds to a research presentation.

The Oxford-Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics convened April 11–13, 2016 at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) for an exchange of research  on ethical issues in medicine and biomedical science. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Consortium—co-founded by Rosamond Rhodes, PhD; Stefan Baumrin, PhD, JD; and Daniel Moros, MD—is an interdisciplinary collaboration which focuses on faculty development. The annual meeting encourages its members to devote a portion of their research to bioethical topics and share their findings. (more…)

Exposing Young Minds to Science and Medicine

Dennis S. Charney, MD It was a special summer of learning for the 120 area high school and college students who participated in Mount Sinai’s Center for Excellence in Youth Education’s (CEYE) research courses, clinical internships, and career preparatory programs. Established in 1975, CEYE aims to increase the presence of historically underrepresented groups in science and medicine by providing students with a wide variety of opportunities for career exploration. CEYE is housed in the Center for Multicultural and Community Affairs in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. (more…)

Clashing Visions on Medical Care Practice Prove to Be Hurdle

A Modern Healthcare article noted: “Clashing visions of how physicians should practice medicine in the 21st century bubble beneath the surface of nearly every controversial issue in delivery system reform. On the one side is ….a ‘last-century perspective. It reflects a time when patient outcomes were considered unmeasurable and when the idea of team care meant everyone following the orders of whichever physician was in charge.'”

“This approach put heroic practitioners at the center of the diagnosis, treatment and healing process. It posited that the best therapy for any patient should be discerned and delivered by someone with years of training and experience and, hopefully, a personal relationship with the individual in need of care.” (more…)

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