Primary Care Program
Mount Sinai Primary Care Residency Program
Primary care providers are health care’s front line, and must provide compassionate, patient-centered, rational, high-quality, cost-effective care. Fulfilling this mission requires a new generation of primary care academic leaders who:
- are well-rounded outpatient clinicians and effective inpatient clinicians, capable of providing provide excellent evidence-based clinical care in all primary care settings.
- are educators skilled as teachers of both patients and fellow professionals.
- advocate for improving health care from the patient to the population level.
- understand primary care research, including research in health services, evidence-based medicine, ethics, medical education and other areas.
- possess leadership skills fostered throughout training with opportunities for responsibilities in major curricular arenas.
The Mount Sinai Department of Medicine Primary Care (MSPC) Residency Program is a three-year program designed to train outstanding internists for careers in academic primary care/general internal medicine. Fully integrated within the Internal Medicine residency program at Mount Sinai Hospital, the MSPC program trains residents to be outstanding clinicians in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, but offers enhanced opportunities in primary care including clinical expertise, teaching, leadership, advocacy and research.
As participants in the curriculum of the categorical residency, trainees in the MSPC will receive ample exposure to inpatient medicine. Therefore, the major focus in the MSPC is on outpatient medicine.
Our faculty include many of the most respected teachers in the Department of Medicine and reflect the breadth of primary care investigation here at Mount Sinai, including health policy, vulnerable populations, and evidence-based medicine. In addition, our faculty include respected clinicians and investigators from our partner departments of Health Policy and Geriatrics and Adult Development.
All internal medicine residents maintain a weekly outpatient continuity clinic throughout their three years of training. This base is expanded and built upon in each year of training for residents in the MSPC program.
All program participants are also expected to complete several small projects and one major longitudinal mentored research project in their area of interest (education, advocacy/policy, primary care clinical research, etc). These projects are incorporated in the curriculum throughout the three years of the program.
Intern year
The intern year in the MSPC includes an extra outpatient block in the 2nd half of the year during which residents work on a quality project in the outpatient setting and receive increased exposure to outpatient primary care with a focus on geriatrics and principles of screening. The major research project is initiated in the intern year with meetings with the Director and Associate Director of the MSPC to determine area of focus and begin planning.
PGY2 year
In the PGY2 year there are a total of 4 outpatient blocks, 2 for all the categorical residents plus 2 additional blocks. During these blocks, residents have the opportunity to experience specialty clinics including diabetes and renal, and have the opportunity to do a portion of their continuity clinic through the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors program.
Early in the year residents meet with the Director of the MSPC to select their research mentor and begin work on their major research project.
Study of epidemiology, biostatics advocacy, teaching, communication and leadership skills are foci of the PGY2 curriculum.
During PGY2 residents begin their involvement with community outreach and will select a hospital committee in which to participate throughout PGY2 and 3. During both PGY2 and 3, MSPC residents attend regional and national meetings of the Society of General Internal Medicine.
PGY3 year
The PGY3 year focuses on completion of the longitudinal project and presentation at General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds and at regional and national Society of General Internal Medicine meetings.
PGY3 residents have a total of 5 blocks of outpatient medicine, including two blocks along with their categorical counterparts. During their extra outpatient blocks, MSPC residents have the opportunity to repeat any of our specialty clinics and have protected time to complete their major research project.
Residents also have expanded teaching responsibility at this time. In addition, they experience curricula in health policy and public health, palliative care and billing and practice management.
Deborah Korenstein, MD Lauren Peccoralo, MD
Director, Primary Care Program Associate Director, Primary Care Program
Associate Professor of Medicine General Medicine Fellow
Associate Program Director Assistant Program Director
Mount Sinai School of Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine
Date: October 19, 2009