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

Program Identity & Fit

This is a large, academically elite, quaternary-care psychiatry residency anchored at The Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center, with additional exposure to child inpatient care at Morningside and forensic psychiatry at Kirby. The program's identity centers on individualized subspecialization and flexibility, structuring PGY-3/4 years around substantial elective time (up to 80% in PGY-4) so residents can build a defined clinical, research, educational, or administrative niche rather than following a uniform track. Research is deeply institutionalized through the Friedman Brain Institute's integration of psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery, a dedicated Physician-Scientist Training Program with protected research time, and named research leadership (Associate/Assistant Training Directors for Research), signaling that scholarly output is a formal pathway rather than incidental. The program also emphasizes psychotherapy depth (a formal affiliation with the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute) and a wraparound continuum-of-care model at the Behavioral Health Center, valuing residents who show intellectual curiosity, initiative in self-directed learning, and the maturity to construct their own specialized professional identity.