Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program

Program Identity & Fit

Mount Sinai's Orthopedic Surgery Residency is a tertiary academic program situated within a large, research-intensive urban health system, taking seven residents per year into a five-year curriculum with dedicated rotations across trauma, spine, pediatric orthopedics, oncology, adult reconstruction, sports, and upper extremity/foot-and-ankle subspecialties. The program explicitly frames basic and clinical research as integral to advancing the field, with residents expected to appraise literature and contribute to research output, supported by a dedicated Orthopedic Research Laboratory. Its stated outcome is placement into competitive subspecialty fellowships, signaling a program identity built around producing academically credentialed subspecialists rather than general community orthopedists. The program values entrepreneurial thinking, critical reasoning, and full-spectrum clinical involvement (outpatient, inpatient, and surgical) alongside scholarly productivity.