Residency Programs in Internal Medicine

Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program (Global Health)

Operating as a partnership between the Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine the combined Medicine and Pediatrics Residency is designed to prepare individuals to care for patients of all ages. Residents completing this program will be board-eligible in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.

In collaboration with Mount Sinai's Global Health Center, this program prepares residents to be leaders in the burgeoning field of Global Health. As part of their training, residents may earn a Masters of Public Health degree with a concentration in Global Health.

The program builds the historic leadership in both the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics and the Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine, combining the faculty and resources of these two departments to provide extensive experience in patient care and research.

During the four years of this program, residents perform clinical rotations in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and may take classes covering basic public health principles as well as fundamental topics in global health. Training is both evidence and skills based.

Training Locations

The Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program, with its strong emphasis on patient diversity, includes three hospitals:

The Mount Sinai Hospital

Founded in 1853, The Mount Sinai Hospital is an 1171-bed major urban hospital. Noted for delivering the most sophisticated and advanced medical care available, The Mount Sinai Hospital provides primary care services to local residents as well as tertiary care to patients referred from around the world.

Located on the border of East Harlem, a predominantly Hispanic and African-American community, and the Upper East Side, one of the wealthiest, Mount Sinai attracts a culturally, economically and medically diverse patient population.

Elmhurst Hospital Center

The Elmhurst Hospital Center is located in the midst of the most ethnically diverse square mile in the world. A recently renovated 618-bed municipal hospital located in Queens, New York, it maintains a firm affiliation with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residents spend time at this facility.

To facilitate communication between physicians and patients, there are over 100 language translators on staff at Elmhurst. Because of its unique multiethnic patient population, Elmhurst offers a very special opportunity to care for patients with diseases rarely seen in other hospitals in the United States. The hospital provides all levels of care to over one million residents of western Queens. The emergency room and outpatient clinics are among the busiest in New York City.

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Bronx

Like Elmhurst and Mount Sinai, the Bronx VA's unique patient population offers a wealth of learning opportunities, and permits considerable resident autonomy under appropriate supervision.

This hospital is renowned for its clinical research and has many well-respected scientists on its faculty including the Nobel Laureate, Dr. Rosalyn Yalow. Dr. Yalow developed the radioimmunoassay along with Solomon Berson, former Chairman of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

The Bronx VA is another component of our training program that ensures a diverse patient population is available for the residency experience. The VA Hospital is a relatively new facility with major research laboratories and a new MICU/CCU and a large new dialysis ward. The VA is a "paperless," completely computerized hospital.

Global Health Curriculum

Mount Sinai Global Health Center is rooted in Mount Sinai's historic dedication to community service and volunteerism. It was started by a core group of full time faculty with particular interest and expertise in global health.

The program's part time and affiliate faculty are renowned specialists in a multiple fields, and include Holly Atkinson, M.D., Former President of Physicians for Human Rights; Richard Brennan, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Health Ward Director of the International Rescue Committee; Alan Rabinowitz, Ph.D., Executive Director of Science and Exploration for the Great Cats Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society; and Jeffry Sacks, Ph.D., Director of the United Nations Millennium Development Project and Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General.

Full time, part time, and affiliate faculty act as both teachers and mentors. They work with residents to develop research questions and devise 6 week fieldwork experiences to explore areas of interest.

Field projects provide opportunity for residents to practice research and public health skills in an underserved setting while improving community health. Residents work with faculty to develop a project at one of the designated partner sites. These sites have been selected based on their suitability to expose residents to successful and innovative models of public health, research, or clinical care in the field, as well as their ability to host our residents safely, and the potential for residents to contribute effectively to their work.

Sites include urban and rural settings in Ethiopia in connection with one of the national medical colleges; Child Family Wellness Shops in Kenya, which train non-physician healthcare personnel to operate rural medication dispensaries and health clinics, and an injury surveillance program in Honduras.

How to Apply

Candidates apply through ERAS. The NRMP number is 1490700CO.

Residency Director

Eva Waite, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Program Contact