Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai-Mount Sinai Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Mount Sinai's Internal Medicine Residency is a large, top-10 NIH-funded academic program anchored by a tertiary/quaternary-care flagship hospital and complemented by the James J. Peters VA and NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, giving residents exposure to complex tertiary referrals, veteran populations, and a safety-net public hospital system within the same training continuum. Research is structurally embedded rather than optional: every resident completes a scholarly project, and the program offers named pathways for physician-investigators (ABIM Research Track, StARR/R38-funded program) alongside a Primary Care/Geriatrics track and a CHAMP hospitalist mentoring initiative, reflecting genuine multi-track career segmentation rather than a single mold. The department's scale (14 divisions, ~$150M NIH funding) and emphasis on quality improvement, evidence-based medicine, and a longitudinal advisor/mentorship structure signal a program built to produce academic subspecialists and junior faculty, while still explicitly supporting hospitalist and primary care trajectories. Distinctive features include the combined Internal Medicine/Medical Genetics pathway, protected 80% research time for StARR scholars, and a formal fellowship-preparation and career-mentoring apparatus spanning all career endpoints.