How are off-campus clinical facilities at Mount Sinai?

[Mr.Tweed]

I'm considering MSSM for medschool, but I'm a little hesitant because most of the off campus clinical facilities are not in Manhattan. Does anyone have experience with these hospitals? Are they easy to get to and in safe areas?
Thanks.

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[Mr.Tweed]

Are there any Mount Sinai students in here?

 

[Mr. Rosewater]

i don't know what the specific hospitals are (and i'm not an MSSM student), but most places w/in the five boro's are easily accessable by subway. i wouldn't think getting there and back would be too difficult for you.

 

[mellantro]

I think most Manhattan med schools have off campus sites not in Manhattan i.e. Cornell and Columbia have ones

 

[ERMudPhud]

A few years ago when I was a Sinai intern they were affiliated with the Bronx VA and Elmhurst hospitals. They ran shuttles to both hospitals and both were also accesible by subway. The VA was in a sort of dicey neighborhood. I'd lived in NYC for quite some time including some not so safe neighborhoods and I always felt a bit uncomfortable walking from the subway station to the VA. Elmhurst was in a pretty cool part of Queens

 

[Mr.Tweed]

i don't know what the specific hospitals are (and i'm not an MSSM student), but most places w/in the five boro's are easily accessable by subway. i wouldn't think getting there and back would be too difficult for you.

Several of the affiliated hospitals are in NJ. I'm not sure how accesible they are.

 

[liquid magma]

there shuttle buses door to door to almost all of the away sites. and some of them (ie elmhurst and bronx va) are amazing hospitals with some of the best learning experiences in the country. most students love going to those two sites.