Department of Psychiatry
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Residency Program in PsychiatryResident LifeBenefits
Full Complement of BenefitsMount Sinai's comprehensive and competitive compensation package is available and includes the following:
In addition to these plans, residents have 20 paid vacation days and 12 sick days, as well as the option of investing a portion of your gross salary on a tax-deferred basis. House Staff Annual Salary 2008-2009
Chief Residents receive an additional $2,500 per annum. Housing
Transportation and ParkingWe provide shuttle bus service between the medical center and three of our teaching affiliates (James J. Peters VA Medical Center, City Hospital Center at Elmhurst, and Englewood Hospital and Medical Center), coordinated around changes of shift and other peak transportation needs. We are four blocks from the 6 train—the east side subway that runs the length of Manhattan—and one block from frequently-running crosstown MTA bus service. Parking is available on a monthly or daily basis in the Mount Sinai campus garages, where rates are lower than in local commercial garages. Some apartment buildings also have parking facilities. Gustave L. and Janet W. Levy LibraryLocated on the eleventh floor of the Annenberg building, the Gustave L. and Janet W. Levy Library contains more than 105,000 books and journals. The Library is also home to the medical center's academic computing center. All residents receive their own free e-mail account and can access the Internet and hospital computing system from home as well as throughout the medical center. Most major medical and psychiatric journals are available to Mount Sinai residents in PDF format and can be accessed through a home internet connection. See MSSM Psychiatry Journals for a listing of those online psychiatric journals subscribed to by the library. BookstoreVisit the Students section of the School of Medicine site for more information. Committees and CouncilsMount Sinai has residency representatives on the New York County APA District Branch Committee of Residents. Mount Sinai's own residency training program has a representative from every class of residency in both its Curriculum and Residency Committees. Also, senior residents are invited to take part in the Graduate Medical Education Consortium's numerous policy making committees and councils. Dining and the Plaza CafeteriaThe hospital cafeteria is a full service cafeteria with a large selection of food items, including sandwiches, hot items, a salad bar, and a kosher section. Discounted "caregiver specials" are promoted daily. There is a Starbucks™ coffee cart in the lobby of the Annenberg Building. Residents regularly eat at many of the local sandwich shops and restaurants, including a wonderful French bakery and a sushi purveyor. Moonlighting PolicyMoonlighting is permitted as long as it does not interfere with the training responsibilities of the house-staff or the number of hours worked for programs in New York State to be in compliance with Part 405.4 of the New York State Health Code. House-staff officers must notify the Program Director of the Department of Psychiatry of their intent to work additional hours outside the hospital as physicians providing patient care services. Residents are informed about the moonlighting policy and regulations on maximum work set forth in Part 405.4 of the New York State Health Code. They are required to complete a form detailing their moonlighting activity. This is reviewed with the resident. If a resident’s performance is not satisfactory, a resident may be required to curtail his/her moonlight. There is a required Moonlighting Notification Form. It is the responsibility of the house-staff officer to guarantee that he/she is in compliance with this law when working for other than Consortium institutions. It is also the obligation of the house-staff officer to obtain written permission from the Program Director before accepting a moonlighting position. It is at the sole discretion of the Department Chairmen whether to authorize or in any way limit moonlighting by house-staff officers. If Consortium institutions hire residents for moonlighting, it is the responsibility of the institution to make certain that the residents are licensed for unsupervised medical practice in the state where the moonlighting occurs and to determine whether such licensure is in place, whether adequate liability coverage is provided, and whether the resident has the appropriate training and skills to carry out the assigned duties. In addition, the sponsoring institution must ensure that the program director acknowledges, in writing, that he/she is aware of the resident's moonlighting activity and that this information will be made part of the resident's file. Please refer to the Psychiatry Reference Manual for the Medicare policy on moonlighting. |
We are pleased to offer the convenience of nearby housing in several Mount Sinai-owned apartment buildings. Accommodations range from unfurnished studios and furnished bedrooms in shared suites in our Residence Hall to one and two bedroom apartments in nearby apartment buildings. Amenities include laundry facilities, security, sundecks, and outdoor recreational facilities. All incoming residents are guaranteed the option of Mount Sinai owned and subsidized housing.