Electives

PGY-1 residents have one month of elective time in internal medicine or pediatrics. Options are abundant (e.g., pain and palliative care, ambulatory care, developmental pediatrics, endocrinology) as virtually any medicine or pediatric-specific discipline in the Medical Center is capable of hosting residents.

PGY-2, 3, and 4 residents have the opportunity to pursue advanced clinical and/or research electives in Mount Sinai's areas of expertise and Centers of Excellence, some of which include the following:

• Center of Excellence for OCD and Related Disorders
• The Brain Institute, comprised of the following Centers of Excellence:
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  • Aging
  • Cognition and Neural Plasticity
  • Computational and Systems Neuroscience
  • Mood and Motivation
  • Myelin Disorders Mechanisms and Repair
  • Neural Injury and Repair
  • Neurodegeneration
  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Novel Approaches to Neurodiagnostics and Neurotherapeutics

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, inpatient and outpatient
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  • Attention-Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder Center (including adult ADHD)
  • The Seaver and New York Autism Center of Excellence
  • Community violence, under-enrichment, and effects on developmental pathology

• Community and Public Psychiatry
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  • Administration
  • Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
  • Cognitive Rehabilitation
  • Continuing Day Treatment Program

• Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, including the following specialized programs:
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  • Multiple Sclerosis, HIV (Jack Martin Fund Clinic), Transplant, Movement Disorders

• Disaster Psychiatry
• Eating and Weight Disorders Research Program
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  • Body Dysmorphic Disorder
  • Research Program on Appearance and Performance Enhancing Drug Use

• Emergency Psychiatry
• Family Studies Research Program
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  • Genetic studies in Schizophrenia, Autism, and Aging

• Geriatric Psychiatry, inpatient and outpatient
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  • Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

• Global Mental Health elective (or residency track) via a cooperation with Ministry of Health of Belize
• Inpatient Psychiatry
• Mood & Anxiety Disorders Program
• Mood & Personality Disorders Program
• World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program
• Neuroimaging
• Neuromodulatory Therapies
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  • Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

• Neuropsychiatry
• Psychopharmacology
• Psychotherapy
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  • Psychoanalytic training – possibility to begin during residency
  • Psychoanalytic Evaluation
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in the Borderline Personality Clinic
  • Electives: psychodynamic, CBT, DBT, IPT, family/couples, group, exposure

• Schizophrenia Treatment and Research Program
• Substance Abuse
• Suicide and Harm Reduction
• Traumatic Stress Studies Division
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  • PTSD, Holocaust survivors, veterans, & children of violence
  • Innovative psychotherapeutic paradigms, including virtual reality

• Visiting Doctors Program