Why Choose Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West

For more than 150 years, Mount Sinai Morningside (formerly Mount Sinai St. Luke's) has served New Yorkers living on the Upper West Side. Twenty-one years after St. Luke’s establishment, Mount Sinai West (formerly Mount Sinai Roosevelt) was founded. The two storied institutions were brought together in a merger in 1979, forming St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. SLR, as it was known, joined with Beth Israel Hospital as part of the Continuum Health Partners merger in 1997. In 2013, Mount Sinai and Continuum joined forces to create the Mount Sinai Health System, of which Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West are active and vital members.

The two institutions have a rich history of scientific breakthroughs and of serving the community. Mount Sinai Morningside was one of the first hospitals in New York City to begin ambulance service and was the first to establish an obesity research center in the United States funded by the National Institutes of Health. Mount Sinai West is a leading center for orthopedic surgery and endovascular neurosurgery. Both institutions have been providing primary care to New Yorkers along the Upper West Side for generations.

The Upper West Side is an excellent catchment area for a diverse patient population as well as an exciting and vibrant place to live. You are surrounded by parks, with Central Park to the east, Riverside Park to the west, and Morningside Park to the north. There are plenty of opportunities to take in a concert at Lincoln Center, see a play on Broadway, or eat at one of the thousands of restaurants throughout the city. The area is a great place for families with a large number of top-rated public and private schools. Nearby public transportation allows you easy access to the entire city, from Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo to Coney Island and the beaches in Rockaway, Queens.

The bulk of residency training takes place at two hospitals and three ambulatory sites throughout the city. Residents also rotate through one of New York City’s prestigious cancer centers.

Mount Sinai West

With 505 beds, Mount Sinai West is a full-service community and tertiary-care hospital with an emergency department serving Midtown and the West Side of Manhattan. Since its founding in 1871, it has placed strong emphasis on primary and specialty care. Located near vibrant Columbus Circle, the catchment area is broad—from the Theater District to the Upper West Side. Mount Sinai West serves a diverse patient population that includes expanding oncology services.

Mount Sinai Morningside

With 523 beds, Mount Sinai Morningside serves as the principal health care provider for the West Harlem and Morningside Heights communities and operates one of Manhattan’s few Level 1 trauma centers. It is home to the Al-Sabah Arrhythmia Institute, a world-class, multidisciplinary center specializing in the management of cardiac arrhythmias. Mount Sinai Morningside also enjoys an outstanding reputation for services in many other medical specialties, including Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and HIV/AIDS. Mount Sinai Morningside also continues to expand its commitment to community-based ambulatory care and access to primary and specialty care.

Ryan Health Centers

Adult Primary Care is located at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, a short walk from Union Square, one of the busiest subway stations in New York City. It serves a large and diverse patient population from all five boroughs. At GMA, physicians provide comprehensive primary care, with diabetes educators, social workers, and psychotherapists embedded within the practice. Faculty are committed to best practices around population health management and quality improvement. Dedicated primary care faculty supervise residents in a longitudinal fashion, providing exceptional teaching and mentorship.

Ryan Health Center provides Federally Qualified Health Care Centers that serve a diverse community. They are a multi-disciplinary practices that offer patients a variety of clinical and social support services, including cardiology, gastroenterology, gynecology, optometry, dentistry, hepatitis C care, psychotherapy, and social support services. Ryan Health offers residents outstanding precepting, learning, and practice experiences. The four Ryan Health practices our residents practice at are:

• William F. Ryan Health Center at 110 West 97th Street
• Ryan Chelsea Clinton Health Center at 645 10th Avenue
• Ryan Health Adair at 565 Manhattan Avenue
• Ryan Health Nena at 279 East 3rd Street

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West are one of the few residency programs in New York City that offers rotations at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), one of the world’s premier institutions dedicated to cancer treatment and research. Residents have assigned rotations during their PGY1 and PGY2 years. They work with outstanding attending physicians, clinician/researchers and fellows, and have plenty of opportunities to do hematology and oncology research. Many of our residents have served as chief residents at MSKCC and some have been accepted into their prestigious Hematology/Oncology Fellowship.

Our faculty members are dedicated to providing a rigorous and thorough training experience. They are compassionate mentors, known as experts in their fields who are committed to your training and preparation. Read more

As a resident at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West, you will take part in a rigorous training program that reflects a spirit of innovation in medical education. While we have the traditional conferences and methodologies for teaching, such as case conferences, Peer Learning Session (formerly Morbidity and Mortality Conferences), evidence-based medicine, and journal club, to name a few, our program has a long history of innovation in education. Many of these innovations are nationally recognized and have been adopted by major medical institutions throughout the country. As our house staff knows, we are proud of our dynamic reputation, and we are not reluctant about changing a system if it improves education and training.

6+2 Ambulatory Block Model

Ours was one of the first residency programs to implement the unique system of two-week ambulatory blocks occurring every six weeks. A dedicated two-week block allows for a much richer outpatient exposure and makes room for a number of educational activities, including work in the Simulation Lab and evidence-based medicine sessions, to name a few. It also ensures you can focus fully on your patients without the competing demands of inpatient responsibilities. In addition, we have developed treatment care teams in which a resident within each clinic quadrant shares responsibility for the same patient group, promoting continuity and strengthening patient care. Apart from Internal Medicine continuity clinics, residents have opportunities to rotate through a wide range of subspecialty clinics. Ambulatory didactics are conducted during two half-day sessions each block, which includes clinical topics and an evidence-based medicine seminar, which teaches residents to critically analyze medical literature. Asynchronous learning is done using the Johns Hopkins online modules, which all residents are expected to complete.

No 24-Hour Call

In our program, there is no 24-hour call. To ensure coverage, the Department of Medicine has adopted a universal night float system for inpatient floor rotations and the intensive care units. Residents feel this enhances their learning experience and decreases fatigue associated with overnight call.

Center for Advanced Medical Simulation (CAMS)

We believe that training and educating tomorrow’s physician leaders includes not only didactic and book learning, but hands-on experience. Our state-of-the-art simulation center is the largest Simulation center in Manhattan and only one of 50 nationwide.  It is the only accredited simulation center in New York City and provides vibrant and dynamic training for our residents. We provide a standardized curriculum to all house staff that teaches diverse skills, such as communication, in stressful situations, procedures such as ultrasound-guided central line insertion, and leadership skills in medical code scenarios. Each session in the simulation lab is directly observed by our critical care faculty and each participant of the simulation is debriefed and given feedback at the end of the session. There are also research studies being conducted in the CAMS. Residents have the opportunity to create their own teaching sessions on topics they feel would enhance learning. For example, sessions on managing upper GI bleeds, tachyarrhythmias, and goals-of-care discussions were all developed and led by our own residents with faculty support. This not only strengthens their teaching skills but also allows the program to address specific areas where residents feel additional guidance is needed. Residents rotate regularly through the center during their ambulatory blocks. Residents work closely with the faculty of the Sim Center as part of their training.

Point of Care Ultrasound

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become an increasingly common tool that internal medicine physicians utilize every day. It allows for rapid assessment at the bedside to help diagnose a variety of conditions, and helps to steer additional workup and treatment decisions, especially in situations where patients may be clinically decompensating. POCUS further improves accuracy and efficiency when performing bedside procedures, including peripheral IV insertion, paracentesis, and thoracentesis, among many others. Given the ever-growing importance of POCUS in internal medicine, the residency program has integrated formal ultrasound training into the already outstanding longitudinal curriculum. Residents now have the opportunity to receive a series of didactic sessions on specialized ultrasound topics learn and practice organ systems-based ultrasound skills in simulation case-based scenarios, and gain more hands-on ultrasound experience through two-week ultrasound electives. This innovative, longitudinal POCUS curriculum will enable the residents to gain experience and expertise in this ever-growing field, which will undoubtedly prove useful to their future careers.

Intern Academic Half Day  

Academic Half Day is our weekly educational conference where interns have protected time dedicated for learning. Each conference, structured around a high-yield core topic, consists of three learning activities. PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents have protected educational time daily, delivered as 1 pm conferences.

We utilize a variety of educational methods to promote engagement, discussion, and long-term knowledge retention. Attending participation is a key component of each didactic session, and many of our world class faculty are invited to deliver focused lectures.

Senior Resident Didactics

Senior residents have weekly educational conferences on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, where they have protected time dedicated to learning. Each conference focuses on a high-yield, clinically relevant core topics utilizing case-based scenarios. Our world-class faculty are invited to deliver expert-led lectures.

Afternoon Report

Every other Friday afternoon, we hold Afternoon Reports at each site, where a resident presents an interesting case that they encountered. We utilize small groups, moderated by a Chief Resident or Attending, to discuss each case in terms of differential diagnosis, appropriate investigations and treatment.

Wellness Curriculum

The goal of our Wellness Curriculum is to take our practice of medicine to a higher level of satisfaction, effectiveness, and meaning, thus positively changing our lives, our patient care, and the lives of those around us. Our overarching goal is to expose residents to a variety of ideas and practices to strengthen the bonds within our community, alleviate and prevent burnout, foster empathy and, ultimately, improve our care of patients while finding more meaning and joy in our chosen profession. We are fortunate to have dedicated Wellness Faculty, Wellness Chiefs, and an active Wellness Group who help shape and guide these initiatives. Together, we organize a variety of events both inside and outside the hospital such as our run club, paint-and-sip gatherings, Thanksgiving celebration, and many other activities that bring our house staff together. We are thrilled to have a creative and diverse house staff who continue to share their passions and unique talents in order to enrich our family’s common journey.

Mentoring System and Career Development

From your first day as a member of our house staff, you will be assigned an Associate Program Director mentor who will provide guidance throughout your training. You will develop additional mentors—either clinical or research—as you develop more specific areas of interest. We also have rigorous and challenging fellowships in Cardiology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Palliative Care, Geriatrics, and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine. Our goal is to create a web of support and camaraderie for you as you navigate your residency and future graduate medical training.

Our residency offers a vibrant collection of resident-run interest groups designed to foster learning, mentorship, and professional growth. With guidance and support from dedicated faculty mentors, these groups create spaces where residents can explore subspecialty interests, build skills, and receive invaluable fellowship and career advice. Current groups include Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Rheumatology, Pulmonary/Critical Care, Hospital Medicine, Quality Improvement, Research, and many others. Through lectures, case discussions, hands-on workshops, and mentorship opportunities, these groups help residents deepen their knowledge, strengthen their career pathways, and connect with faculty role models. In addition to these interest groups, we are proud to have a dynamic Women in Medicine group that empowers and supports women across our program. This group is divided into several subsections, each with a distinct mission. The Wellness Group organizes creative and relaxing events such as pumpkin painting, paint-and-sip nights, and seasonal gatherings that bring our community together. The Community Outreach subsection leads our annual clothing drive for local shelters and coordinates volunteer efforts to support the broader community. The Professional Development subsection hosts sessions on career development, opportunities outside traditional clinical medicine, leadership for women physicians, public speaking, and more. The Digital Communications subsection attends program events to capture and share highlights and showcase the achievements and unique journeys of our residents. Together, these groups enrich the residency experience by promoting connection, exploration, mentorship, and growth, ensuring that every resident has the support and resources needed to thrive both personally and professionally.

Special Events

Throughout the year, various events are organized by the program (e.g., Halloween event, ice skating trips, holiday parties). At the end of the academic year, the Department of Medicine also organizes an annual retreat for the incoming PGY1s to start their journey into medicine, as well as the rising PGY2s to aid with their transition to their new roles and responsibilities for the next academic year. Residents are guided in teaching methods, how to give feedback, and taking on team leadership roles, as well as improving overall patient care.

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