Mount Sinai School of Medicine shares a four-block campus with the Mount Sinai Hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and is known for its clinical research work and scientific discovery. Mount Sinai ranks 18th out of 146 medical schools nationwide, according to U.S. News and World Report. The school offers clinical programs in dentistry, pediatrics, pathology, psychiatry, urology, surgery, radiology, dermatology, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, medicine, geriatrics and palliative medicine, otolaryngology, emergency medicine, anesthesiology and rehabilitation medicine, among others. The school is adjacent to Central Park.
Weill Cornell Medical College has been affiliated with the New York-Presbyterian Hospital since 1927. The school offers degrees in medicine in addition to Ph.D. programs in biomedical research and education, as well as 24 basic science and patient care departments focusing on the sciences of underlying clinical medicine. Programs include cardiothoracic surgery, neuropathy, pharmacology, psychiatry, emergency medicine, dermatology, geriatric medicine, hospital medicine, cell and developmental biology, ophthalmology, pediatrics, radiology, primary care, anesthesiology, biochemistry, and microbiology and immunology. WCMC also has a graduate school for medical professionals looking to advance their careers.
Columbia University Medical Center is on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Founded in 1754, the school offers several courses of study to medical students. Areas of specialty include neurology, surgery, radiation oncology, pharmacology, obstetrics and gynecology, neuroscience, medicine, biomedical informatics, medicine, genetics and development, physiology and cellular biophysics, anesthesiology, microbiology and immunology, dermatology, orthopedic surgery and pathology and cell biology. Columbia houses the School of Nursing, the College of Dental Medicine, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Mailman School of Public Health and the Graduate School.
New York University's School of Medicine is in Murray Hill on the East Side of Manhattan overlooking the East River. Areas of specialty include cardiothoracic surgery, pediatrics, biochemistry, anesthesiology, psychiatry, radiology, surgery, urology, ophthalmology, pathology, microbiology, environmental medicine, dermatology, forensic medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, cell biology, pharmacology, rehabilitation medicine, emergency medicine and neurological surgery.