Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a four-year combined Pediatrics/Medical Genetics residency at Mount Sinai Hospital, an academic, tertiary-care institution deeply embedded in a research-intensive genomics enterprise (Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Child Health Research Directory). Training alternates every six months between Pediatrics and Medical Genetics rotations across general clinical genetics, metabolic disease, prenatal, cancer, and lysosomal storage genetics services, plus dedicated laboratory rotations in biochemical, molecular, and cytogenetics labs, culminating in a fully individualized sixth-month block in year four. The curriculum is structurally research-embedded rather than optional: residents complete a mandatory graduate-level genetics course each year, weekly departmental research seminars, journal clubs, and dedicated research/elective time, reflecting an institutional identity built around translating genomic and metabolic disease discovery into clinical diagnostics. The program appears to value trainees who can move fluidly between direct pediatric patient care and laboratory-based diagnostic reasoning, with an eye toward board certification in both Pediatrics and Medical Genetics and future subspecialty or academic genetics practice.