Why Choose Mount Sinai?
The Mount Sinai Morningside, Mount Sinai West, and Mount Sinai Beth Israel Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program is a three-year combined program committed to outstanding clinical training in all aspects of pulmonary and critical care medicine. We care for an incredibly diverse patient population with a wide range of diseases in the heart of New York City. We have designed our curriculum to help fellows gain individualized clinical, leadership, and research experience over the course of three years with graduated responsibility.
OUR MISSION: To train the next generation of leaders in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine OUR APPROACH:
- Our fellows work directly with faculty experts in pulmonary hypertension, cystic fibrosis, sleep disorders, asthma, COPD, lung cancer, pulmonary physiology, pulmonary rehabilitation and palliative care.
- Our fellows learn how to lead our busy ICUs, with the guidance of dedicated educators who practice medicine at the cutting edge, incorporating interdisciplinary rounds, patient safety and quality metrics, and point-of-care ultrasound.
- We have always been at the center of educational innovation, dedicated to a hands-on mastery learning approach to education by integrating simulation-based education with bedside learning and traditional didactics.
- We pair a robust and comprehensive foundation of clinical training with an individualized pathway for career development. Fellows are deeply engaged in learning research, quality improvement, teaching and leadership skills. Many of our graduates have gone on to become innovative clinician-educators and leaders in medical education and hospital administration.
Key Resources
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – ISMMS: with over 20 Research and 13 Clinical Institutes
- Mount Sinai –National Jewish Respiratory Institute in Union Square
- Clinician Educator resources: o Center for Advanced Medical Simulation (CAMS), established in 2007 at Mount Sinai West, is the first NYC-based simulation program to receive accreditation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Our fellows have the opportunity to complete a 6-month ‘mini’-Simulation Fellowship within the 3-year fellowship structure. o Point-of-Care Ultrasonography (POCUS) Program: We have several faculty who have achieved national recognition as leaders in Critical Care Ultrasonography and provide our fellows with the opportunity to become POCUS educators locally, regionally and nationally. o Our fellows have the opportunity to participate in an 18-month Clinician-Educator Track
- Quality Improvement, Patient Safety and Leadership resources: o Fellows with a career interest in QI/PS and Hospital Leadership have the opportunity to take an immersive one-year Leadership Development course. o Our fellows are engaged in diverse QI and PS activities, including hospital committees, Root Cause Analyses and QI projects.
Location
Mount Sinai Morningside (MSM) serves West Harlem, Morningside Heights, including the Columbia University undergraduate campus and offers a Level 2 Trauma Center. Over one million residents call this area home and represent every ethnic and socioeconomic group, providing a diverse patient population and broad spectrum of pathology at every stage of illness. Mount Sinai West (MSW) serves patients from Midtown and the West side of Manhattan. MSM and MSW provide primary- to tertiary-level care to local, tri-state and international patients.
Mount Sinai Beth Israel (MSBI), which includes the ambulatory site, Mount Sinai Downtown Union Square, is the Lower Manhattan campus for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. This tertiary care referral center serves the lower east side of Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs. MSBI’s unique combination of referral and primary care patient populations provides a well-balanced mix for our training and clinical research programs.
Clinical Excellence
Our program has a number of unique training avenues that provide you a breadth and depth of training that you can't get at other institutions.
Ultrasonography Education
Under the leadership of Paru Patrawall, MD, fellows are provided a particularly useful educational experience in both point-of-care and critical care ultrasonography. This curriculum is unique to the fellowship program at Mount Sinai Morningside, West and Beth Israel.
Simulation Center
Mount Sinai West is the home of the largest accredited Simulation Center in Manhattan and one of the very few nationwide. This provides vibrant, hands-on and dynamic training for fellows particularly during medical emergencies. Our Sim Center improves the quality and safety of the care provided for patients throughout the Mount Sinai Health System.
Clinician Educator Track/Teaching Scholars Curriculum
The fellowship program offers a specialized Clinician Educator Track (CET) to provide foundational education in the method and practices of teaching health care providers. The backbone of our CET is the Health Profession Educator Pathway for Fellows (HPEPF), a 12-month medical educator curriculum delivered in a hybrid model (asynchronous-virtual) to accommodate the busy schedules of subspecialty fellows. In parallel and with close mentorship, scholars design, implement, and disseminate a medical education capstone project.
Our Faculty
The combined core faculty in the Divisions of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at MSM, MSW and MSBI include more than two dozen full-time, internationally recognized faculty members who possess a broad array of clinical and research interests covering the major aspects of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine. Fellows interact with core faculty on a daily basis through bedside rounds, daily clinical conferences, journal clubs, didactic sessions and research projects.
Contact Us
Geraldine Vargas Program Coordinator Tel: 212-523-3610 Fax: 212-523-3609 geraldine.vargas@mountsinai.org
Mount Sinai Morningside Ambulatory Care Center, S&R 13 440 West 114th Street New York, NY 10025