About Us

The Humanities and Medicine Program provides a path to medical school that offers maximum flexibility in the undergraduate years for students to explore their interests in humanities and social sciences at top liberal arts colleges and research universities. The program assures highly motivated undergraduates admission to Mount Sinai upon successful completion of program requirements and graduation from their undergraduate program. MCAT's are neither required nor permitted to be taken.

An integral part of the program is an on-campus summer program at Mount Sinai, in which students participate after their junior year. This required 8-week summer program consists of classroom study in physics and organic chemistry along with an introduction to various clinical disciplines through weekly rotations as well as seminars and lectures on Global Health, Translational Science, Health Policy, and Medicine and the Arts.

Students apply to the Program in the first semester of their sophomore year. Juniors are considered on a space available basis. Ideal candidates for this highly selective program will have demonstrated an interest and ability in the sciences and math in high school, taken a minimum of science/math courses in college, and have personal attributes that show promise for becoming a compassionate and humanistic physician. This past academic year, we received 600 applications for 35 positions. Their average first-year college GPA was 3.74 and their average combined SAT critical reading plus SAT math score was 1440. Students who have been accepted into the Program have the option of deferring their matriculation in medical school for one year after graduation from college. In addition to the required summer program, an optional pre-matriculation 6-week Summer Enrichment Program is available for those students who wish to expand their pre-med knowledge base.