At Albert Einstein College of Medicine, M.D. students follow a specific academic calendar. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with important dates for the 2024-25 academic year. The listing below shows orientation dates, the start and end dates of each phase of the M.D. curriculum, institutional holidays, winter break, and spring break. We also list other religious and cultural holidays when the school is closed, as well as holidays that we know students observe. Einstein makes every effort to minimize required sessions on holidays, but this is not always possible. Please contact your course directors as far in advance as possible to request to be excused from a required session. Dates are subject to change.

Academic Schedule

Session Start End
Class of 2028 Orientation August 4 August 9
Class of 2027 Orientation August 6 -
First Year Block 1 August 12 December 20
First Year Block 2 Curriculum January 2 June 11
Second Year Block 3 Curriculum August 7 December 23

Holiday Schedule

Occasion Date(s)
Labor Day September 2
Rosh Hashanah October 2-4
Sukkot October 16-23
Shemini Atzeret October 23
Simchat Torah October 24
Diwali* October 31-November 1
Thanksgiving November 28
Winter Break December 23-January 1
Martin Luther King Jr. Day January 15
Lunar New Year* January 29
President's Day February 19
Ramadan February 28
Purim* March 14
Eid al-Fitr* March 31
Spring Break April 14-18
Eid al-Adha* June 6
* indicates a holiday when school is in session but class schedules are minimized.