Program Curriculum

General urology rotations recur throughout the training years, beginning with three rotations at MSH, MSBI, and Elmhurst in the first year of training and culminating in rotations at those same institutions in the chief resident year, when the trainee gets experience managing the general urology service at each hospital.  These provide exposure to the broadest possible sample of patients and urological conditions.

Mantu Gupta, MD, leads the Kidney Stone Center at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West, providing our residents with access to the greatest volume of stone disease cases and the broadest variety of procedural techniques in the New York area.  He is joined at Morningside Mount Sinai West by Ketan Badani, MD, who has extraordinary experience in robotic kidney and bladder procedures, by an additional fellowship-trained minimally invasive surgeon, Craig Nobert, MD, and by two full-time general urologists, Jay Motola, MD, who serves as site director for the Morningside-West rotations, and Norman Coleman, MD. Rotations at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West in each year of the program will allow residents to take maximum advantage of this extraordinary concentration of expertise and opportunity.

Residents will complete two focused rotations in pediatric urology, in their first and third years of training, under the guidance of Jeffrey Stock, MD. They will be located at MSH, seeing patients in the Pediatric Clinic, the Faculty Practice, and in the Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai. They will also follow Dr. Hyun to Elmhurst to participate in procedures and clinics there.

Residents will have the opportunity to choose among a variety of out-patient electives for one ten-week rotation at Mount Sinai Beth Israel.  Faculty with the relevant expertise and a track record of productivity in mentoring resident research will be chosen to supervise the residents in andrology, female urology, neuro-urology, oncology, assisted reproduction, or uro-radiological imaging.  The resident will work exclusively with this faculty member and will take call.

In the PGY-3 training year, residents will be assigned to the female urology procedures performed by Neil Grafstein, MD, and Jonathan Vapnek, MD, to gain experience in the performance and interpretation of urodynamic studies and accompany Dr. Grafstein and Dr. Vapnek on urology rounds on the Rehabilitation service.

Two rotations, one in PGY-3 and one in PGY-4, will take the resident into the related specialties of medical oncology and pathology while providing the opportunity to deepen their understanding of research design and the cutting-edge applications of genomics.  In these rotations the residents will shadow attending physicians as they treat or consult on urology patients and will spend a designated portion of their time being tutored on statistics and the design of demographic studies or on genomics.  They will continue their direct clinical involvement by taking call.