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Humanities and Medicine

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.

An integral part of the program is an on-campus summer program at Mount Sinai, in which students are introduced to various clinical disciplines through weekly rotations. During their Geriatrics rotation, the students focus on the sites of care of older adults – the hospital, the clinic, the nursing home and at home. They also get to know barriers that may affect the younger physician-older adult patient relationship and ways to overcome them.

Rainier P. Soriano, M.D. directs the Geriatrics rotation of the Humanities and Medicine Program.