Message from the Director

Thank you for your interest in The Mount Sinai Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) fellowship training program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM). We offer an ABIM accredited three-year training program designed and tailored to meet the individual needs of each fellow planning a career in clinical medicine, medical education, clinical investigation or basic sciences. Support is available for an optional fourth year of research for promising young investigators.

Our educational mission is to train fellows to be outstanding leaders, clinicians and researchers within the fields of PCCM by providing opportunities and skill sets to develop successful careers in all facets of academic medicine. 18-24 months of training are largely clinically oriented with a focus on learning the fundamentals of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine. Fellows receive the broadest clinical training possible through a diverse patient population at Mount Sinai Hospital. Within the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) we can provide an opportunity for our fellows to rotate at the other local sites for clinical electives and research should they so choose. Similarly, our MSH-NJH Respiratory Institute collaboration has made available a wide array of clinical and research programs at National Jewish Health system in Denver to the fellows.

An approximate total of 12 months of research time is provided in the second and third year (overlapping) when each fellow is given the opportunity to acquire research skills and work on an individual scholarly project with a dedicated mentor. The fellows have the opportunity to participate in bench work, translational research, clinical investigative studies, medical education-related or quality improvement research projects while being provided direct mentorship by exceptional research faculty. Options for advanced training in through the Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) or Master of Public Health (MPH) program at ISMMS are also available.

Additionally, the collaborative opportunities made available by various clinical and research institutes at ISMMS allow for an expanded access for our fellows to research mentors and training grants outside of the division. Many of our faculty have ongoing collaborative clinical programs and research projects with the following multi-disciplinary institutes including with the Arnhold Institute for Global Health, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Mount Sinai Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai Institute for Healthcare Delivery Science, Mount Sinai Institute for Medical Education, Mount Sinai Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, The Tisch Cancer Institute, The Zena and Michael Wiener Cardiovascular Institute to name a few. Learn more about our institutes here.

Our comprehensive clinical and research experiences are complemented by a robust educational curriculum that includes weekly multi-disciplinary conferences in radiology and pathology as well as core didactic sessions on pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine topics, bimonthly journal clubs, and weekly Respiratory Institute grand rounds. 

Sakshi Dua, MBBS, ATSF, FCCP
Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
Professor of Medicine and Professor of Medical Education