Primary Care Residency Program

The Internal Medicine Residency Program at Mount Sinai Morningside-West recognizes the unique skill set required of primary care physicians to practice in our current healthcare landscape. As such, we are thrilled to offer an innovative Primary Care Track for residents seeking to become experts in primary care medicine. Through this track, residents gain enhanced exposure to topics beyond those typically covered in the traditional ambulatory block. The track is fully integrated into our categorical program; Primary Care Track residents engage in the same rotations as their colleagues, including the Intensive Care Units, yet are provided increased elective time dedicated to primary care-related activities. In addition, all residents in the track rotate through their primary care elective blocks concurrently, fostering a strong sense of community. All primary care track residents will maintain a practice at the Ryan Adair Center in Central Harlem, located in a HRSA-designated medically underserved area, which will allow exposure to a diverse population with a multitude of complex diseases.

The track is composed of clinical and non-clinical experiences as well as half-day protected didactic sessions during primary care elective blocks. Educational sessions for residents in the track cover a broad array of topics introducing residents to the fundamentals of primary care medicine such as population health, social and structural determinants of health, health disparities, addiction medicine, cost-effective prescribing, pearls of coding and billing, behavioral health integration, community oriented primary care, hands-on sessions in the Simulation Lab, and geriatric medicine. All Primary Care Track residents are expected to develop a longitudinal project over the course of three years with protected project time allotted during each primary care block with 1:1 faculty mentorship. Our outstanding primary care faculty, who are committed to educating and mentoring the next generation of primary care physicians, bring to the table a broad range of clinical and academic interests. Through this track we aim to provide general skills training while supporting each resident in their particular area of interest within primary care. Approximately 88% of our graduates to date have chosen to pursue primary care, and 71% of those practicing primary care have stayed within the Mount Sinai system as clinician-educator faculty, Features of our Primary Care Track include:

• Participation in an immersive community medicine rotation focused on caring for urban, at- risk population\
• Option to participate in a health policy elective with NY ACP.
• Exposure to a multitude of primary care-relevant clinical opportunities
• HIV Primary Care
• Protected didactic sessions and workshops focused on primary care medicine topics
• Participation in a Resident-as-Preceptor rotation as a PGY3
• Home visits with the nationally renowned Visiting Doctors Program at Mount Sinai
• Longitudinal project engagement with 1:1 faculty mentorship
• Individually-tailored elective schedules as PGY2 and PGY3

Applicants interested in the Primary Care Track should apply using our ERAS number. For further questions, please contact the Primary Care Track Director, Dr. Tamara Goldberg at Tamara.Goldberg@mountsinai.org.