Why Choose Mount Sinai Morningside & Mount Sinai West
By now, you’ve no doubt read a lot of material about residency programs. Much of it, probably, is beginning to sound the same. How is our program different? We point to our unique history, our location, our diversity of experience, our innovative curriculum including a comprehensive wellness curriculum and our emphasis on mentoring and professional development as elements that make us stand out from the crowd.
History and Tradition
For more than 150 years Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, originally called St. Luke's, has served New Yorkers living on the Upper West Side. Twenty-one years after St. Luke’s establishment, Mount Sinai West (formerly Mount Sinai Roosevelt) was founded. These storied institutions merged in 1979, forming St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital.
SLR, as it was known, joined with Beth Israel Hospital as part of the Continuum Health Partners merger in 1997. In 2013, Mount Sinai and Continuum joined forces to create the Mount Sinai Health System, of which Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West Hospitals are active members.
The two institutions have a rich history of scientific breakthroughs and of serving the community. Mount Sinai Morningside was one of the first hospitals in New York City to begin ambulance service and in 1975 was the first to establish an obesity research center in the United States funded by the National Institutes of Health. In 1998 the James P. Mara Center for Lung Diseases opened becoming a center for the study of alpha-1 antitypsin deficiency. In the 1880s, the first use of sterile gloves in the United States was used by Dr. William Halstead at Mount Sinai West. Over the years, West has become a leading center for orthopaedic surgery and endovascular neurosurgery. Both institutions have been providing primary care to New Yorkers along the Upper West Side for generations.
Location
Manhattan’s Upper West Side is an exciting, vibrant and diverse place to live and work. Our hospital’s patients are from a broad spectrum of ethnicity, financial status, nationality, sexual orientation and religion. Their diversity provides an extraordinary educational experience that many residents do not see until much later in their training.
Social amenities are as many and varied as anywhere in the world. The Upper West Side is surrounded by Central Park to the east, Riverside Park to the west and Morningside Park to the north. Enjoy a Lincoln Center concert or a Broadway play. Eat at one of thousands of restaurants. Families are served by numerous top-rated public and private schools. Convenient and safe public transportation provides access to the entire city, including such world-famous attractions as Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Zoo, Coney Island and the beaches of Rockaway, Queens.
Diversity of Experience
The bulk of residency training takes place at two hospitals and three ambulatory sites throughout the city. Residents also rotate through one of New York City’s prestigious cancer centers.
Mount Sinai West (formerly Roosevelt)
With 514 beds, Mount Sinai West is a full-service community and tertiary-care hospital with an emergency department serving Midtown and the West Side of Manhattan. Founded in 1871, and located near Columbus Circle, the hospital’s longstanding emphasis on primary and specialty care now includes expanding oncology services for the large and diverse catchment area from the Theater District to the Upper West Side.
Mount Sinai Morningside (formerly St. Luke's)
With 523 beds, Morningside serves as the principal health care provider for the West Harlem and Morningside Heights communities and operates one of Manhattan’s few Level 1 trauma centers. It is home to the Al-Sabah Arrhythmia Institute, a world-class, multidisciplinary center specializing in the management of cardiac arrhythmias. Indeed, Morningside has a well-earned reputation for outstanding services in many other medical specialties, including Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and HIV/AIDS. The hospital also continues to expand its commitment to community-based ambulatory care and access to primary and specialty care.
Ryan Centers
The Ryan Centers are a community-based outpatient clinic network dedicated to providing comprehensive care in a culturally-sensitive environment. The centers traditionally serve those New Yorkers who do not normally have access to high quality medical care. Our residents are assigned to see general medicine patients at one of three sites on the Upper West Side, including 46th Street, 97th Street and 125th Street.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centers
Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West is one of the few residency programs in New York City offering rotations at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, one of the world’s premier institutions dedicated to cancer treatment and research. Residents have assigned rotations during their PGY1 and PGY2 years. They work with outstanding attending physicians, clinician/researchers and fellows and have plenty of opportunities to do hematology and oncology research. Many of our residents have served as chief residents at MSKCC. Some have been accepted into its prestigious Hematology/Oncology Fellowship.
Educational Innovations
Residents at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West participate in demanding and innovative medical education. Traditional conferences and methodologies for teaching, such as chart review, Morbidity & Mortality, evidence-based medicine and journal club to name a few, are enhanced by nationally-recognized innovations that have been adopted by major medical institutions throughout the country. The result is a dynamic program that provides flexibility to accommodate opportunities for improved education and training.
Mentoring and Professional Development
One of the most important responsibilities of the Department of Medicine is to prepare our housestaff for each phase of their medical career. Mentoring involves guidance on patient care, teaching and planning life beyond residency.
Mentoring System and Career Development
From your first day as a member of our housestaff, you will be assigned a mentor and a chief resident. They comprise your mentoring team and provide guidance throughout your training. You will develop additional mentors – either clinical or research - as you develop more specific areas of interest in such rigorous and challenging fellowships as Cardiology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Nephrology and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine. Our goal is to create a web of support and camaraderie for you as you navigate your residency and future graduate medical training.
Special Events
Each year we hold a job fair to educate our soon-to-be-graduates about their future career options. At the job fair, we discuss interviewing skills, contracts, and successful CV writing among other things. We also have a fellowship workshop to assist our end-of-year PGY2s navigate the process of applying for fellowship. We discuss how to obtain letters of recommendation and interview strategies to ensure a successful match. A research seminar is planned for the fall to assist PGY1s and PGY2s develop their research portfolio. At the end of the academic year, the Department of Medicine organizes an annual retreat for rising PGY1s and PGY2s to aid with their transition to their new roles and responsibilities in the next academic year. Residents are guided in teaching methods, learning to give feedback, taking on team leadership roles and improving overall patient care.
Our Faculty
Faculty are dedicated to providing comprehensive and in-depth training. They are compassionate mentors, experts in their respective fields and committed to your education and development.
Recent Graduates
Our residency program graduates have been accepted to some of the country’s most prestigious and highly sought-after fellowships. We have alumni at nearly every major medical institution throughout the United States. Read more about our graduates and leaders in academic medicine who were trained at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West.
Contact Us
Education Program Department of Medicine Mount Sinai Morningside & Mount Sinai West MSMWMEDRESINFO@mountsinai.org
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