Why Choose Mount Sinai?
Deciding where to spend your residency can be complicated and numerous factors play a role in that decision. At Mount Sinai, we offer a potent combination of a top-notch medical education, the opportunity to work with some of the world’s best clinicians and researchers, authentic partnerships with our local community and robust career development and mentoring. Plus, we are based in the greatest, most intellectually and culturally vibrant city in the world.
Community
When we decided to start a MedPeds program at Mount Sinai we knew we wanted this program to truly reflect the values, strengths and goals of the community we call home – East Harlem. From day one we partnered with local community-based organizations, faith leaders, community leaders and patients to answer the simple question: what type of doctors should our program produce? Their answer was simple – doctors dedicated to primary care and to social justice. Our curriculum and program philosophy reflect this shared vision.
Since then the community has been intimately involved in program development, program evaluation and resident recruitment efforts. Patients and community leaders sit on our Program Advisory Board, Program Evaluation Committee and Recruitment and Selections Committee. Our residents partner with many local community-based organizations, from public schools to community health workers, to engage in true community-centered primary care.
Location
As a resident at Mount Sinai you will live in New York City—one of the greatest, most diverse and exciting cities in the world. Physically, our main campus is right next to Central Park, which provides a quick escape into natural beauty for runs, walks, bike rides or just relaxation. Residents can participate in all the cultural and recreational activities that New York City can offer: theater, museums, music, restaurants, and sporting events.
Reputation
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks in the top 20 of all accredited U.S. medical schools for research, according to the 2023-24 U.S. News & World Report. We are also in the top 20 in NIH funding nationwide, with nearly $135 million in grants, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
In its “Best Hospitals” issue for 2023-2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked multiple divisions in the Department of Medicine as leading locations for sub-specialty care, including Geriatrics, Gastroenterology, Cancer, Cardiology, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Pulmonary and Nephrology. These rankings exemplify our commitment to patient care and the education of our trainees.
But these numbers don't tell the whole story. Our program is considered by national leaders in medical education to be highly rigorous, providing excellent foundational training for any subspecialty in a highly supportive environment.
Our Faculty
As a MedPeds resident at Mount Sinai you will work with and be mentored by an amazing group of physicians from the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics. We have some of the leading clinicians, physician-scientists and researchers who will play an integral part in your development as a physician. We also have a robust network of MedPeds trained faculty throughout the Mount Sinai System.
Diversity of Experience
With three main training locations, you will be exposed to a wide array of patients that most trainees don’t see until later in their careers.
The Mount Sinai Hospital & Kravis Children's Hospital
Founded in 1852, The Mount Sinai Hospital is a 1,171-bed urban hospital known internationally for delivering the most sophisticated and advanced medical care available. The Mount Sinai Hospital provides primary and secondary care to local residents, as well as tertiary care to patients referred from around the world. The Kravis Children’s Hospital, ranked among the country’s top children’s hospitals, is physically contiguous with the main hospital, allowing for seamless clinical and educational experiences for MedPeds residents. Located in East Harlem, one of the poorest communities in the nation, and two blocks from the Upper East Side, one of the wealthiest, Mount Sinai attracts an incredibly diverse patient population and challenges our trainees to identify and dismantle structural drivers of health inequities.
Elmhurst Hospital Center
Elmhurst Hospital is a 618-bed municipal hospital located in Queens. It maintains a tight affiliation with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and many residents spend time at this facility. Elmhurst Hospital Center is located in the most ethnically diverse square mile in the world. There are over 100 translators on staff at Elmhurst for nearly 85 different languages. Because of this unique patient population, Elmhurst offers a very special opportunity to care for patients with diseases rarely seen in other hospitals in the United States. The hospital provides all levels of care to over one million residents of Western Queens. The emergency room and outpatient clinics are among the busiest in New York City.
Settlement Health
The clinical and educational “heart” of this program is a combined internal medicine and pediatrics continuity practice at Settlement Health. Settlement Health is a Federally Qualified Health Center that has provided high quality comprehensive primary health care services to East Harlem since 1978. Settlement Health delivers a wide array of primary care and specialty services on-site, including adult and pediatric medicine, podiatry, optometry, HIV medicine, women’s health and co-located mental health care. As an FQHC Settlement Health provides care to patients regardless of their insurance status or documentation, including medications through a 340b pharmacy. Through this innovative partnership our residents care for a panel of pediatric and adult patients, providing care at Settlement Health, in partner school-based health centers, in the community and in patients’ homes. Residents also engage in longitudinal quality-improvement projects and population health initiatives to improve the quality of care they deliver to their patients and to identify and dismantle systems of oppression within our healthcare system and community.
Wellness
Our approach to resident wellness is to pro-actively change the structure of Graduate Medical Education to support the holistic wellness of each trainee. Departmental Wellness Champions partner with our institutional Office of Well-Being and Resilience and GME leadership to continually improve the working and learning environment for our residents. Access to mental health services is prioritized through our Student and Trainee Mental Health program. A Clinical Work Intensity Grant program incentivizes training programs to improve the service-learning balance, and mindfulness and reflection sessions integrated into the curricula improve resident resilience and teach relaxation and mindfulness techniques.
Our program developed an innovative Wellness Advisor Program wherein each resident is assigned a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) as a dedicated Wellness Advisor (WA). The WA provides two opt-out 1:1 sessions annually, as well as as-needed in person or telephone sessions to address issues including but not limited to mental health, adjusting to residency and coping with stress/loss.
Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism
The Mount Sinai Hospital is located in East Harlem, a community that has historically drawn new immigrants to New York City. The majority of East Harlem residents today belong to ethnic or racial groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in medicine. We want our physicians who provide exceptional care to that community to also reflect its diversity. As an institution Mount Sinai is dedicated to training future leaders to address racial inequities within medicine. This aligns with our program’s educational philosophy, of shifting power within graduate medical education away solely from academic health centers to more fully and authentically include those patients and communities who are cared for and participate in the education of our residents.
The Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics’ aggressive agenda, spearheaded by our Vice Chairs for Diversity and Inclusion in Medicine and Pediatrics, go beyond recruitment. Programmatic innovations focus on enhancing professional experiences and growth for our faculty and housestaff members from underrepresented minorities in medicine. For example, we have a mentoring program for underrepresented minorities in medicine who are paired with faculty members who guide their professional development throughout their training. Our MedPeds program is a national leader on Anti-Racism in graduate medical education. Our approach for anti-racist program design and recruitment efforts, as featured by the Society for General Internal Medicine, serves as a model for programs across the country.
Research opportunities are available to address health care inequities, public policy, and issues in structural competencies. Throughout the Health System, through collaborations with the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, we provide additional resources, such as writing and financial literacy workshops and access to professional coaching, to enhance the training environment and career development for housestaff.
Contact Us
Latoya Fyffe Administrative Manager latoya.fyffe@mssm.edu
1190 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10029 Tel: 212-241-8139