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Mount Sinai Launches New FlexMed Program

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is introducing a flexible admissions program for half its incoming students, who will skip the Medical College Admission Test, forgo traditional premed requirements, and be accepted in their sophomore year in college, as long as they maintain a 3.5 grade-point average through senior year.

  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • (February 28, 2013)

Students will still be required to take basic biology and chemistry, as well as a semester of statistics. If they haven't taken biochemistry, cellular biology, and genetics in college, they'll have to show up to Mount Sinai six weeks early to cover those topics. Mount Sinai's FlexMed Prograem is one of more than 100 proposals the American Medical Association has received as part of an effort to overhaul medical education. The association will award a total of $10-million to 10 winning, replicable proposals in June. "The traditional premedical experience is a regimented, aggressive culling process that breeds unhealthy competition and encourages students to check off the boxes and focus too much on grades," said David Muller, dean of medical education at Mount Sinai. "We want to encourage people to think creatively and not feel so constrained." Learn more.

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