The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Consortium for Graduate Medical Education, consisting of 13 institutions located in New York and New Jersey, sponsors more than 140 residency programs in virtually every specialty of medicine, enrolling in the aggregate more than 2,000 house staff. Consortium educational activities provided to all house staff, regardless of home institution or specialty.
Dear Colleague:
Welcome to the Mount Sinai Neurology Program Website. As program director, I ask you to examine this site carefully in relation to your needs, questions, interests and career plans. However, at the same time, be aware that the Neurology Residency affords you opportunities and exposures of which you may not be presently aware. It provides exposure to the broad areas of neuroscience, as well as the clinical aspects of neurology and its many subspecialties. Neurology is a constantly broadening expanse, and this is an exciting and challenging era for the field. And with each year in our residency program, your independence and associated responsibility grows, in parallel with your expanding clinical expertise.
In addition to our residency program, we run a number of fellowship programs for you to review and consider when planning your training. Understand also that a major aspect of what you stand to gain from any training program is in part determined by your level of comfort and enjoyment as you proceed through the program. Residency should be exciting and challenging, but it should also be fun.
Our interview day affords you the opportunity to meet with many members of the faculty, and also to speak freely with our residents (at dinner the night prior to the interview where NO attendings are present) and for us to meet with you and introduce ourselves. Our major theme is to educate, be educated, and continue to grow at a time of exciting breakthroughs. And you will be the ones to achieve many of the promising goals of clinical neurology.
We take great pride in offering a broad, flexible, diverse and collegial program in neurology. Our faculty is readily available and present, many of us at all hours. The senior residents are skilled clinicians who run our neurology inpatient services, but attendings are present on every service, every day. A faculty mentor will be assigned to you to serve as guide, and offer you any assistance in adjusting to your new environment as a neurology resident. The interaction with neurology faculty, as well as the expertise of other specialties and research in the basic sciences, is broad and constant. Most of all, we offer collegiality, respect and opportunity.
An additional asset is the opportunity to work and live in New York City, the most diverse and exciting city in the world. New York offers literally “everything” – theatre, restaurants, museums, culture, arts, sports – it is an endless list. The city is a constantly changing face which lives up to the old saying: it is “the city that never sleeps”.
Again, our faculty is open and always available. The senior residents are themselves skilled clinicians and mentors, and though the work of residency is difficult, the comfort level is almost always high. We feel that we can provide the highest levels of opportunity in neuroscience and clinical neurology, in an open, friendly and collegial environment. And I will always ask you: “Are you having fun?”
