Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a five-year integrated vascular surgery residency embedded in a large, academic, tertiary/quaternary health system, with the majority of training concentrated at The Mount Sinai Hospital, one of the busiest vascular surgery programs in the country with a legacy dating to the 1960s. The curriculum is built for high procedural volume and breadth, rotating residents through open and endovascular surgery, interventional radiology, transplant surgery, and vascular medicine across multiple Mount Sinai sites (Morningside, West, Queens), reflecting a program that values technical range and comfort operating across varied clinical environments rather than a single home base. Faculty leadership spans 26 vascular surgeons across 10 hospitals, indicating a large, multi-site faculty structure and exposure to diverse case complexity and practice models within one system. The program sits within an institution whose stated identity is research-intensive and innovation-driven, but the residency's own page emphasizes clinical/procedural training and legacy mentorship over an explicit research mandate, positioning it as clinically dense training aimed at producing technically versatile vascular surgeons.