This residency program, fully accredited by the ACGME, is designed to provide you with the education and skills necessary to be an orthopaedic surgeon. The finishing resident will have the knowledge base and practice experience needed to begin his or her career. The resident will have an excellent understanding of the basic science of our specialty. There are opportunities for, and a requirement to do, basic or clinical research.

The Orthopaedic residency education takes place at The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan and Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens. The Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedics is composed of ten full-time clinical faculty, two full-time Ph.D. basic scientists, and eighteen voluntary orthopaedic surgeons at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Elmhurst Hospital Center has five full-time orthopaedic faculty who are also members of our department at Mount Sinai. The experience at The Mount Sinai Hospital is primarily elective orthopaedics. The elective cases include all the common orthopaedic conditions and operations, as well as the most sophisticated tertiary orthopaedic care. The emergency room at The Mount Sinai Hospital is busy, but the orthopaedic emergencies are low-energy injuries, including a great number of hip fractures. The experience at Elmhurst Hospital Center is primarily trauma, including multi-system trauma. Elmhurst Hospital Center is a Level I Trauma Center.

The Mount Sinai Medical Center is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It sits between Fifth and Madison Avenues across from Central Park along Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile. It is one of the largest medical centers in Manhattan. Mount Sinai School of Medicine has approximately 480 medical students and more than 2,600 faculty and scientists. The Mount Sinai Hospital has 1,171 certified hospital beds. There are more than 40,000 inpatients each year. Over 80,000 patients are seen in the emergency room each year, and almost 30,000 operations are performed. Mount Sinai provides graduate education in 50 specialties with more than 800 residents and fellows.

The residency program offers the serious student the opportunity to be educated in all aspects of orthopaedics. The finishing residents are well-rounded orthopaedic surgeons with the surgical skills to perform all orthopaedic operations and, more importantly, the education to be able to understand the advances in orthopaedic surgery that will be made in the future. Previous residents, who chose to further their education with a fellowship, have been successful in obtaining some of the most competitive fellowships in the country. Those who have elected to go directly into practice have been successful and report that they felt confident and well prepared to be practicing orthopaedic surgeons.