Teaching Tomorrow's Medicine TodayFrom Mount Sinai Department of Surgery chairman Arthur H. Afuses, Jr. and archivist Barbara Nuss, an instructional account of Mount Sinai's teaching methods The Mount Sinai Hospital was founded in 1852 as the Jews Hospital in the City of New York, but more than a century would pass before a school of medicine was created at Mount Sinai. In Teaching Tomorrows Medicine Today, Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., chairman of Mount Sinai's Department of Surgery, and