Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is the five-year Triple Board Pediatrics/Psychiatry/Child & Adolescent Psychiatry track at Mount Sinai, a university-affiliated, tertiary academic program housed within a large Department of Pediatrics that operates 16 subspecialty divisions and a federally funded research infrastructure at the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute. The track follows a fixed sequence (Pediatrics, then Psychiatry/Child Psychiatry inpatient, Pediatrics, Psychiatry outpatient, Child Psychiatry outpatient) and is explicitly structured to produce academic child psychiatrists rather than generalist pediatricians or community mental health practitioners. It runs as a separate application and selection process from the categorical Pediatrics and Psychiatry programs, reflecting a distinct identity built around integrated bio-psycho-social pediatric care rather than either specialty alone. The broader institutional culture emphasizes translational research, health equity, and multidisciplinary collaboration across Mount Sinai's health system, and the Triple Board program draws on this same academic ecosystem even though it operates independently.