Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida, Inc Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a small, community-based psychiatry program (three positions per year) at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, oriented around comprehensive ACGME-standard clinical training across inpatient, outpatient, emergency, consultation-liaison, forensic, geriatric, addiction, and community psychiatry settings rather than a research-driven identity. The explicit mission emphasizes producing competent, board-eligible general psychiatrists who can address Florida's mental health workforce shortage, with structured mentorship, biweekly resident-leadership meetings, and a curriculum with more didactic sessions than ACGME minimums. Career outcomes show a mix of direct clinical practice (including within the Mount Sinai system itself) and subspecialty fellowship (child and adolescent psychiatry), with research introduced primarily as a PGY-2 milestone rather than a defining pillar. The program appears to value self-directed learners who progress steadily toward independent clinical practice and are motivated by service to an underserved regional population.