Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is an academic, tertiary-care child neurology residency built on the categorical 2+3 ABPN/ACGME structure, with an adult neurology foundation year followed by dedicated inpatient and outpatient child neurology years at Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Union Square, and Elmhurst Hospital, giving residents exposure ranging from tertiary/quaternary subspecialty referrals to safety-net public hospital care in Queens. The absence of in-house call or night float across all three years, combined with structured outpatient subspecialty clinic blocks in year three, signals a program designed for protected, longitudinal exposure rather than high-acuity overnight autonomy. Research is a required, not optional, component: residents must engage in clinical, translational, or basic science work tied to Mount Sinai's high NIH-ranked neuroscience, genetics, and psychiatry departments, complete a mandatory quality-improvement project, and are expected to present at departmental forums or the Child Neurology Society meeting, reflecting an academic pipeline orientation. The layered didactic structure (daily adult neurology core curriculum, weekly and monthly child neurology/neurophysiology conferences, quarterly psychiatry-neurology journal clubs) and multidisciplinary genetics/psychiatry rotations point to a program valuing broad neuroscience fluency and scholarly output over pure clinical volume.