One of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the country, The Mount Sinai Hospital has consistently been named among the best hospitals in the nation.

Inpatient Psychiatry

The Mount Sinai Hospital has one of the oldest general hospital psychiatric inpatient services in the nation. Treatment teams consist of attending psychiatrists, residents, medical students, nurses, social workers, psychology externs and interns, and recreational/art therapists. The service maintains patient caps that allow for in-depth patient engagement and follows an apprenticeship model with full-time inpatient attendings providing direct supervision.

Psychiatry Emergency Service

A separate dedicated, renovated, and state-of-the-art locked facility adjacent to the medical emergency room, the Psychiatric Emergency Service features quiet interview rooms for therapeutic contact with patients. Dedicated security guards are always present to ensure the safety of staff and patients. The service is staffed by attendings who work one-on-one with residents.

Ambulatory Psychiatry

The Mount Sinai Hospital Ambulatory Psychiatry Clinic includes Adult, Child and Adolescent, and Geriatric specialty services, and includes specialized attending psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurse practitioners, nurses, other trainees, and other allied professionals. The Resident Training Clinic exists within this setting.

Integrated Primary and Specialty Care Psychiatry Clinics

Residents in these integrated care settings provide outpatient psychiatric care alongside physicians from other disciplines and are supervised by subspecialty trained attendings. Available clinics include primary care medicine, oncology, the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, HIV, OBGYN, and liver transplant.

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Numerous full-time, fellowship-trained attendings provide clinical supervision. Faculty subspecializations include transplant, geriatrics, HIV, obstetrics and gynecology, neurology/multiple sclerosis, and oncology. A separate pediatric consultation-liaison service is also available for resident rotations.

The Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center provides a wraparound continuum of care in one location. Available services include outpatient care, acute and subacute evaluations, partial hospital and intensive outpatient programs, inpatient units, intensive crisis residence, assertive community treatment, primary care clinics, and detox/rehab programs. The facility offers extensive psychiatric resources and provides care for patients across a wide range of symptom severity levels.

Inpatient Psychiatry

Two large inpatient units are divided into general adult/dual diagnosis and general adult/geriatric psychiatry and are attended by general and subspecialty-trained faculty. A separate unlocked inpatient detox service is available for resident electives.

Intensive Outpatient Service

The Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center Intensive Outpatient Service provides care to all ages and illnesses and has a wide range of treatment providers. The Resident Education Clinic exists within this service.

Partial Hospital Program and Intensive Outpatient Program

Uniquely under the same roof as the inpatient and outpatient services, these acute care outpatient programs help patients progress in their treatment through intensive psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. Residents rotate through the PHP and IOP during PGY-2 and PGY-4.

The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatient Service at Mount Sinai Morningside is a training venue for fellows, triple board residents, and general psychiatry residents. Residents gain experience with running family meetings and learning about different care systems, including working with the school system and child protective services.

The Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, part of the New York State Office of Mental Health, treats individuals charged with serious crimes who have been found unfit to stand trial as a result of mental illness, inmates transferred from jail or prison who have become mentally ill while serving their sentences, and patients who have never been charged with criminality but are considered to be too dangerous or unmanageable to be housed in less restrictive state psychiatric hospitals. This is an elective rotation.