NYU & Mt. Sinai

[Reinhard]

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This may seem like a silly question, but I have been wondering about this for a while so I am going to ask anyway.

Are NYU SOM and MSSM both part of NYU? The MSAR book says that MSSM is "officially affiliated with New York University." How can one university have two different medical schools? 😕

I did a search here, but nothing came up...

 

[Mr. Rosewater]

yes. graduate schools need to be affiliated w/ a university to grant degrees. therefore, mssm has a very loose affiliation w/ nyu. it doesn't amount to much though.

 

[TRUE]

This may seem like a silly question, but I have been wondering about this for a while so I am going to ask anyway.

Are NYU SOM and MSSM both part of NYU? The MSAR book says that MSSM is "officially affiliated with New York University." How can one university have two different medical schools? 😕

I did a search here, but nothing came up...

Mount Sinai and NYU went through a failed merger a few years ago. One of the parts of the merger involved MSSM and NYSOM remaining two separate schools, but MSSM becoming affiliated with NYU. Allegedly, the MSSM diploma says NYU on it (MSSM OF NYU). Anyway, the merger, as I mentioned has failed, and they are pretty far along in terms of breaking everything up again. That includes the schools and though I am not positive, I think that the MSSM/NYU link will dissapear completely quite soon.

To answer the question in general, though: two completely separate schools on separate campuses with separate hospitals.

 

[greenwitch]

The MSSM diploma *does* say MSSM of NYU. As far as I am aware, the MSSM's affiliation with NYU is one of the things for the merger that will remain since as Mr. Rosewater mentioned grad schools need to be affiliated with a degree granting university. In the past Sinai had been affiliated with CUNY, but being affiliated with NYU is a win-win situation for both schools -- NYU gets two med schools and Sinai is affiliated with NYU instead of CUNY.