Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program

Program Identity & Fit

This four-year Med-Peds program at Icahn/Mount Sinai is explicitly organized around training primary care leaders for underserved, structurally marginalized populations, built in direct partnership with the East Harlem community and reflected in a distinctive set of longitudinal curricula covering mass incarceration (including a Rikers Island continuity clinic), homelessness, substance use and harm reduction, home visits for medically complex patients, human rights/asylum evaluations, and transgender medicine. Clinical training uses a 6+2 block structure with substantial ambulatory time embedded even during non-ICU/inpatient rotations, signaling a primary-care-first design rather than a subspecialty pipeline. Research is present institutionally (Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, NIH-funded infrastructure) but is not foregrounded within the Med-Peds curriculum itself, whose emphasis is community-engaged clinical care, health equity, and structural competency rather than laboratory or bench investigation. The program values applicants demonstrably committed to primary care and health equity, comfort with medically and socially complex panels, and willingness to engage with justice-involved, homeless, and immigrant populations.