Residency Program

Other Rotations and Activities

Didactic Program

Through a weekly lecture series and departmental Grand Rounds, residents are instructed in a broad curriculum of basic science and clinical medicine, including a full range of topics related to primary health care. Residents are provided with formal courses in Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Neonatal Resuscitation and attend animal laboratory sessions in endoscopic surgical techniques. In addition, residents actively participate in the education of medical students rotating through the Department.

Research

Residents participate in the various research activities of the Department. There are numerous areas of active research in all divisions, at both the clinical and basic science levels. Each third-year resident presents a research project at the Residents’ Research Day, held each year in the late spring.

Family Planning

Through a unique collaborative effort between Mount Sinai and Planned Parenthood of New York, second year residents receive an in depth education in all aspects of family planning. This includes training in surgical and medical abortion as well as contraception and sterilization. A series of lectures is also provided by attending staff from both institutions.

Ultrasonography

The Obstetrical Ultrasonography Unit at The Mount Sinai Hospital, staffed entirely by members of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, performs all obstetrical ultrasound examinations at Mount Sinai and serves as a major referral center for the New York metropolitan area. This four-room unit, which is outfitted with state-of-the-art ultrasound equipment, operates eight hours a day and is staffed by full-time registered diagnostic sonographers and attending perinatolgists. Various invasive procedures for prenatal diagnosis and therapy, including fetal blood sampling, intrauterine transfusion, fetal skin biopsy, fetal shunt placement, chorionic villus sampling, amniocentesis, and multifetal pregnancy reduction, are performed there.

Throughout the residency program, residents make frequent use of ultrasonography on the labor floor and in the prenatal clinics, where they receive ample hands-on training. Residents receive formal training in gynecologic ultrasound from a member of the Department of Radiology. Additional training in endovaginal ultrasonography is given during the Reproductive Endocrinology rotation. Ultrasound machines with endovaginal probes are available in the outpatient clinic, on the Gynecology ward, and in the Emergency Department for use by the residents at any time.

Gynecologic Pathology

At The Mount Sinai Hospital, there is a weekly pathology conference to discuss all gynecologic oncology cases. In addition, conferences are scheduled two-three times a month to review benign gynecologic cases. Relevant topics are covered with the hospital’s gynecologic pathologist, and surgical cases performed by the Gynecology and Oncology services are reviewed.

At Elmhurst Hospital Center, residents meet weekly with a gynecologic pathologist to review the surgical specimens of the previous week. The Department of Pathology conducts a presentation of material from the entire Gynecology service every month.

Emergency Medicine

All first-year residents spend two months assigned exclusively to the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital. During this rotation, residents take eight- and twelve-hour shifts in the Emergency Department, gaining experience in the management of a broad range of medical and surgical problems.