Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program

Program Identity & Fit

Mount Sinai's Neurosurgery Residency is a high-volume, tertiary/quaternary academic program anchored across The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai West, and NYC Health+Hospitals/Elmhurst (a Level 1 trauma center serving an underserved, safety-net population), giving residents exposure to the largest neurosurgical caseload in New York City. Research infrastructure is deeply embedded in the program's identity: ranked #1 in NY and #15 nationally in NIH funding, with an in-house Academic Research Organization running industry-sponsored multicenter trials, a dedicated protected PGY-4 enrichment year, and named cutting-edge initiatives (Mount Sinai BioDesign device incubator, Stentrode and Layer 7 brain-computer interface programs) that position residents as potential physician-innovators. The seven-year curriculum offers named subspecialty tracks (vascular/endovascular, epilepsy, functional/restorative, spine, skull base, pediatrics, peripheral nerve, neurotrauma) with early operative responsibility and flexible chief-year pathways toward fellowship, funded research, or practice. The program values residents who can operate at both extremes of Mount Sinai's mission—academic innovation and technology development alongside frontline trauma and safety-net care at Elmhurst.