Mount Sinai's unusually well-balanced clinical education is a great strength of our program. Rather than training primarily in a single setting, Mount Sinai EM residents benefit from significant exposure to both an urban public community hospital and a voluntary university tertiary care site. After gaining proficiency in these complementary environments, our residents graduate prepared to practice anywhere.
Both Emergency Departments recently completed renovations and expansions, and both are "paperless": charting, ordering, retrieving lab and radiology results, and accessing old charts are all computerized.
Mount Sinai Hospital
Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the country's oldest, largest, and best-respected voluntary teaching hospitals. Patients with complex medical problems come from around the country to be treated by its experts in many fields. In the Mount Sinai Hospital Emergency Department, residents learn to treat very complicated patients across the spectrum of illness, from pulmonary hypertension to Crohn's disease to illnesses related to transplanted organs. Mount Sinai's ED receives over 90,000 adult and pediatric patient visits yearly. The ED houses a five-bed critical care area, a dedicated ED CT scanner, and four ultrasound machines for bedside exams. Residents enjoy the use of a newly renovated lounge across from the ED.
Elmhurst Hospital Center
Many who work and train in the Elmhurst Hospital Emergency Department consider it to be one of the best-kept secrets in emergency medicine. This well-run city hospital is a major Level I Trauma center and a main source of care for a fascinating, diverse immigrant community. The ED sees about 130,000 patients per year including high volumes of both blunt and penetrating trauma. The trauma exposure at Elmhurst is much richer than that available in many other parts of the city, including Manhattan; three other EM programs send their residents to us for trauma exposure. The ED contains a four-bed area for critical medical patients and a three-bed trauma bay. Three bedside ultrasound machines are available.
Talk to us: (212) 241-0763
Contact(s):
Program Director: Peter Shearer, M.D.
Residency Coordinator: Claribel Velasquez
Location:
Department of Emergency Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1149, New York, NY 10029
Fax:
(212) 241-4366
or send us an e-mail
