Albert Einstein College of Medicine

For other institutes containing "Einstein" in the names, see Albert Einstein (disambiguation).

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
TypePrivate medical school
Established1953; 71 years ago (1953)
Parent institution
Montefiore Health System
DeanYaron Tomer
Academic staff
739 full-time, 40 part-time (fall 2022)[1]
Students1,303 (fall 2022)[1]
Location
The Bronx, New York City
,
New York
,
U.S.
CampusUrban
Websitewww.einsteinmed.edu

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a private medical school in New York City. Founded in 1953, Einstein operates as an independent degree-granting institution as part of the integrated healthcare Montefiore Health System (Montefiore Medicine)[2] and also has affiliations with Jacobi Medical Center and Yeshiva University.

Einstein offers a M.D. program, a Ph.D. program in the biomedical sciences and clinical investigation, and two Master of Science (M.S.) degrees. Admission to Einstein’s MD program is amongst the most competitive in the United States, with an acceptance rate of 1.87% in 2024.[3]

The college arose from plans by Samuel Belkin in the 1940s and was named for physicist Albert Einstein. The college was established expressly to provide medical training to "students of all creeds and races". Scientific feats achieved at Einstein include the first coronary artery bypass surgery. The Montefiore Health System acquired the school in 2015. Einstein was one of the original three MD/PhD programs to be awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health in 1964, and has received continuous funding since then.[4] In 2021, the program enrolled over 100 MD/PhD students.[5] Following a $1 billion donation to the school by Ruth Gottesman in 2024, the school became tuition-free for all MD students.[6]

  1. ^ a b "College Navigator - Albert Einstein College of Medicine". National Center for Education Statistics. 2024. Retrieved September 21, 2024.
  2. ^ "Montefiore Medical Center". www.montefiore.org. Archived from the original on February 6, 2006. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  3. ^ >"Medical School Acceptance Rates in 2024". Archived from the original on May 27, 2024. Retrieved April 13, 2024.
  4. ^ Harding, C. V.; Akabas, M. H.; Andersen, O. S. (2017). "History and Outcomes of Fifty Years of Physician-Scientist Training in Medical Scientist Training Programs". Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 92 (10): 1390–1398. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001779. PMC 5617793. PMID 28658019.
  5. ^ "Einstein Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)". Archived from the original on October 31, 2021. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
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