Our Internal Medicine Residency Program focuses on the clinical skills, knowledge, leadership, and humanistic qualities of the internist.
To this end, we have a thoughtful, robust inpatient, outpatient, critical care and subspecialty curriculum in place. This includes an emphasis on developing each resident’s teaching and leadership skills, along with their ability to practice high-quality, evidence-based medicine.
Our inpatient curriculum includes weekly interactive seminar series. Morning Report, led by the Inpatient APD, core teaching hospital medicine faculty and the chief residents, is a venue for residents to discuss general case management and the evidence that supports their clinical decision-making. Medical Grand Rounds are a weekly conference that address major current issues in translational science, current medical practices, ethics, or education. Speakers are selected from Mount Sinai’s faculty as well as external visiting professors.
A weekly Intern Report allows our interns to hone their presentation and clinical reasoning skills, while reviewing the literature on selected topics. Resident Report allows our residents to deliver case presentations facilitated by faculty mentors. Further, we bring in subspecialty educators to lead conferences, such as peripheral blood smear rounds with Dr. Barry Coller, former Chair of Medicine.
Our training program is designed as a 6 + 2, inpatient-to-outpatient schedule. In the inpatient setting, our wards are made up of eight general medicine teams, with four specialty teams: Silver (HIV and Geriatrics), Oncology, Cardiology and Liver Medicine. Each team, supervised by an attending physician, is made up of two interns and two residents who care for a maximum of 20 patients. This ensures that our trainees receive the best educational experience while guaranteeing the highest level of patient safety and care. Additionally, we have an educational night medicine rotation that allows overnight residents to admit patients to each of these teams and provide continuity of care with the day teams the next morning.
In the outpatient setting, residents train at Internal Medicine Associates (IMA). This diverse, high-volume outpatient primary care clinic draws its patients from East Harlem and the Upper East Side. There, we have a system where residents are precepted by two attending physicians for their entire residency, providing superlative continuity of care for the patients and longitudinal feedback for our trainees. Our residents also participate in regular outpatient team meetings, giving them the opportunity to deliver interdisciplinary high-value care for their patient panels.