Residents are provided an iPad mini to enhance the learning process. A large, comprehensive library of textbooks, journal articles, and atlases are available for downloading through the medical library, as well as through a departmental archive.

Residents are encouraged to take part in the variety of global surgery initiatives available in the department. Experiences are available in all our specialties, including head and neck surgery, facial plastics, cleft lip and palate surgery, and endoscopic skull base surgery. Residents are able to take part in international outreach trips during their PGY 4 or 5 years.

During the PGY-2 and PGY-3 years, the department will reimburse travel expenses to national meetings where residents present an oral or poster presentation. During the PGY-4 and PGY-5 years, the department will reimburse travel expenses to national meetings where residents have oral presentations.

We make every effort to provide adequate housing for house staff. Resident staff accommodations with subsidized rent are available in a number of apartment buildings within walking distance of the hospitals. Larger apartments are available to residents with families.

Through the Mount Sinai Recreation Office deals and discounts are offered to a multitude of Broadway shows and popular sporting events in the city. Discounts are also offered for many other services and items, including other city attractions, cellphone providers, hotels and rental cars.