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As the only remaining voluntary teaching hospital in Harlem, health and health-related education are important components of the North General Hospital mission.

Residency Training Programs
We believe that the delivery of high-quality primary health care that is accessible, effective and cost efficient requires health care practitioners to have a deeper understanding of the socio-cultural background of patients, their families and the environments in which they live.

North General Hospital sponsors three accredited residency-training programs: internal medicine, psychiatry, and podiatry. North General also participates in graduate level training for residents in health care administration, respiratory therapy and social work, and offers training opportunities for medical students.

 

Internal Medicine Primary Care Residency Training Program

We are committed to providing quality Primary Care medical training that prepares residents to practice in any community in the country. The program emphasizes experience and education in longitudinal and comprehensive ambulatory care in addition to the traditional in-patient experience.

The North General Primary Care Program includes training in preventive medicine, health maintenance, psychosocial, gender and cultural issues pertinent to the patient.

• Ronald K. Cobbs, MD, FACE
  Residency Program Director, Internal Medicine
• Ofelia Martinez, MD
  Associate Residency Program Director
• Carole Neilson
  Residency Program Coordinator
  Medical Student Coordinator

 

Department of Medicine

• Stacie Pinderhughes, MD
  Associate Medical Director
  Chairperson, Department of Medicine
• Franklin Marsh, MD
  Chief of Gastroenterology
  Associate Director, Department of Medicine

 

 

Psychiatry Residency Training Program

The North General Hospital Psychiatry Residency Program is an ACGME accredited four-year residency program in General Psychiatry, which is affiliated with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. We are committed to providing a psychiatric education of the highest quality, which satisfies all requirements defined by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. The faculty is a small, varied, but close-knit group of board-certified psychiatrists who provide a supportive training environment for our residents.

Through a comprehensive didactic curriculum, diverse clinical experiences and close supervision by faculty, our residents learn the art of providing compassionate, holistic and culturally appropriate care that meets the multitude of needs of our underserved patients, amidst an increasingly complex healthcare system. A comprehensive psychiatric curriculum emphasizes a developmental approach to resident learning and compliments the residents’ clinical experiences. Didactic time is protected for a full day of classes in the PGY-2 and PGY-3 at Mount Sinai and half-days in the PGY-1 and PGY-4, on-site.

The clinical training is designed for residents to gain expertise in a variety of clinical settings. Residents are based at North General, but rotate at Mount Sinai and other affiliated sites. In the first two years, diverse experiences on the inpatient units (medical, neurological, addiction, and psychiatric) as well as the consultation and emergency experiences, provide a foundation of knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for a sophisticated psychiatric practice. This foundation is reinforced and built upon in the second year, through increasing responsibilities, medical student teaching and supervision. Longitudinal psychotherapy experiences with one-on-one supervision, expands the resident’s psychological understanding of the mentally ill and provides continuity of care.

Striking a balance between becoming competent in the different types of psychotherapy and the complexities of pharmacology is the goal of the third year. In the Outpatient Mental Health Clinic, residents treat patients, ages 3 – 65 years old, with an array of conditions, under intensive supervision by experienced faculty. Multiple modalities are employed, including individual, group, couples, family and cognitive psychotherapies. In the fourth year, residents consolidate their knowledge, refine their skills, and prepare for their board examination and a variety of careers in psychiatry—from prestigious fellowships to independent practice. The training experience is rounded out by exposure to administration and research and advanced electives in interpersonal psychoanalytic psychotherapy, forensics, and community psychiatry.

We are committed to providing a professional and academic environment that cultivates the personal, as well as professional, growth of our trainees. We seek highly qualified applicants who hold themselves to the highest of professional and ethic standards to join our small program.

Department of Psychiatry

• Jeffery Lucey, MD
  Chairperson, Department of Psychiatry 

• Sabina Singh, MD
  Residency Training Director
• Ms. Heather Joseph
  Program Manager

 

 

Podiatric Residency Training Program

The Podiatric Residency at North General Hospital is a three-year, CPME and COTH accredited PM & S-36 program that is affiliated with the New York College of Podiatric Medicine. The residency encompasses all aspects of podiatric medicine and surgery as well as a full array of academic and didactic study.  Our residents are exposed to a variety of forefoot and rearfoot traumatic and non-traumatic foot complaints presenting to the emergency department as well numerous in-patient consults.

Having a large podiatric clinic provides residents with a multitude of surgical cases and procedures. The podiatry service has an excellent working relationship with the department of Orthopedics, affording our residents the opportunity to scrub in on a great majority of surgical cases, including all foot and ankle traumas.

Essential to our training is our Diagnostic and Treatment Clinic (DTC), located at the hospital. Here we treat an under-served patient population ranging from pediatric to geriatric and are exposed to all facets of podiatry.

Our residency places large emphasis on academics. Weekly journal clubs, online lectures, guest lectures, cadaver workshops, case presentation and grand rounds comprise our didactic schedule. Our residents attend outside podiatric lectures and participate in programs offered by the New York College of Podiatric Medicine. By the completion of the third year, each resident is expected to have completed a poster presentation and paper of publishable quality.   

Department of Podiatric Medicine/Surgery

• Joseph S. Edwards, M.D.
  Chairperson, Department of Surgery
• Henry Godfrey, M.D.
  Assistant Chairperson of Surgery
• Renato J. Giorgini, DPM
  Section Chief of Podiatry
  Residency Training Director
• Segrid Walker
  Residency Program Coordinator
  Medical Student Coordinator 

To receive specific information about North General’s residency training programs, please contact the respective department by calling 212-423-4499 or 212-423-4000.