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Community Engagement at Mount Sinai

Our commitment to science and medicine serving society will afford you the opportunity to treat diverse populations, both locally and abroad. Learn about some of the initiatives that you can be a part of: from the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP), our student-run health clinic; to our Global Health programs; Center for Multicultural Affairs (CMCA); and more. 

The Icahn School of You at Mount Sinai can truly be your own. Our students engage with the surrounding community through clinical, educational, social, and research outreach efforts. Here’s a snapshot of what you could join in on:

  • East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP) is a free student-run health clinic serving uninsured and under-served residents of the East Harlem community.
  • MedDocs is a nine-week after-school program held twice each year in the fall and spring to teach high school students about the heart and lungs.
  • MedStart is a summer camp and academic year-round program offered to East Harlem middle school students interested in science and medicine.
  • Human Rights and Social Justice Scholars Program is a program student-created that initiates service learning experiences so that Icahn Mount Sinai students can pursue social justice work in their medical careers.
  • Medical Mandarin is a student-run organization offering language and cultural competency education, to train current and future health professionals to become better communicators and caregivers who understand Chinese cultural traditions and their impact on healthcare.
  • Medicina en Español is a student-run organization that offers three language proficiency levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced) to learn Spanish that will enhance their medical training.
  • Mount Sinai Human Rights Program (MSHRP) is a faculty- and student-run program that provides integrated pro bono medical care and social services to survivors of torture and asylum seekers to the United States. MSHRP is dedicated to a world united against the inhumane treatment of people.
  • Racism and Bias Initiative is a transformational change initiative aimed at explicitly addressing and undoing racism and bias in all areas of medical school and centering racial justice, equity, and underrepresented voices and experiences of our medical education peers and colleagues.
  • Affinity Groups at the Icahn School of Medicine are a way for communities of students to be linked by a common purpose, self-identifying attribute, commitment, or belief. The overarching mission for affinity groups at Icahn Mount Sinai iis to provide a safe space for all participants to identify salient issues and common concerns through dialogue and programming.
  • If you wish to develop a program, an idea, or concept that inspire you, we are here to support you and your vision.
  •  Learn more about student and community  engagement opportunities.

 

 

I would say versatile, eclectic, chill, and brilliant.

It's like I've had time over the past few years to both reflect on the new class and my current class. And I really do think that there's a sense of vibrancy. People here like to have fun; they like to be connected. And I think that sense of community is is what drew me here, and it's something that is really important to me.

The first one that comes to mind is woke. You know, however you want to take that "woke," but within that, multifaceted.

There's a huge amount of student initiatives that are driven by classmates and colleagues who are inspiring and are thinking about medical response from a social and a psychological kind of viewpoint. And so I really appreciate that, and I think it just feels really welcoming as someone who, you know, does think that things should be multidisciplinary, especially in healthcare, to actually like have Sinai create programs and funding and money, and give students money to do things with. That, to me, speaks of actual commitment and action.

It means that Mount Sinai really values non-traditional students, people from different backgrounds, and really bringing them together to inform medicine, you know, the classroom and the clinic. And bringing these different backgrounds, these different perspectives, to really not only help each other learn, but also improves the care for our patients in the future.

My roles in my student groups have really helped me connect with other students in my class in a way that I think is a little bit more meaningful and engaging than just what we get in the classroom. And so I think I've been able to learn a lot about my, you know, my classmates' strengths. What are, you know, interesting treasures about them, things in their past prior to Sinai that I didn't know. And I think it fosters a really collaborative environment that I think is important for when you're on a medical team.

You have people who are international students, people from the rural South, people from Connecticut, people from down the road, like two blocks over. And so I think that there's a huge diversity both in terms of interest, like intellectual interest, both in terms of extracurricular interests, and I think that that really does bring a certain energy and quality to a campus and to a community that really can't be replaced.

I loved being a part of my class because I have my lived experiences, and they have their lived experiences. And sometimes it's hard to be in spaces where those voices come together, and there's not necessarily a space to kind of like grapple with that, but I think that this is that space where we can have the hard conversations and have the critical conversations. And you may not always come out with a conclusion on the other side, but you learn something. And I learned something from my classmates every day.

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