Education & Training
About Us
We support our learners to become talented clinicians who are prepared to serve individuals who have mental health needs with sensitivity, compassion, and rigorous excellence.
Our programs offer many opportunities to study with knowledgeable faculty members dedicated to excellence in patient care and scholarship. Many of our faculty are recognized as national and international experts in their field. We have special strengths in treatment-resistant depression, stress and trauma, early childhood development, adolescent mood disorders, psychosis spectrum illness (including first episode of psychosis), and addictions.
The department houses 10 to 15 psychology practicum sites annually, led by outstanding psychology faculty members.
The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, in collaboration with the Department of Pediatrics, offers a Pediatrics-Psychology Internship. A comprehensive description of this program is available on the Pediatrics website.
Our department offers postdoctoral research training in the form of T32 programs in substance use and eating disorders. We also offer a non-accredited post-residency research fellowship.
The Department of Psychiatry offers courses, externships and other opportunities for current medical students.
We offer a four-year Adult Psychiatry Residency Program with the possibility of choosing areas of emphasis in research, educational, or clinical expertise.
The Department of Psychiatry offers these fellowship programs:
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (fully integrated)
- Addiction Medicine
- Addiction Psychiatry
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Geriatric Psychiatry
- Neuromodulation Medicine