The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has over 100 full-time salaried faculty and over 300 total faculty.  Educators in psychiatry provide over 30,000 hours per year of teaching to medical students, psychiatry residents, and psychology interns.  Psychiatry faculty teach courses in all four years of the medical student curriculum.  The Department has an outstanding residency training program in General Psychiatry as well as combined programs in Psychiatry and Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and Neurology. A research training track is also available that can be integrated within any of the three main psychiatry residency programs.

In addition, the Department offers strong fellowship training in child and adolescent, addiction, geriatric, and forensic psychiatry. Other integral training opportunities include a highly competitive psychology internship program, and scores of postdoctoral research fellows and other students and trainees.

Extensive opportunities for Continuing Medical Education are programmed by the Department each year, including a weekly Grand Rounds series, a major Update in Psychiatry conference each Spring, and a number of other continuing education events.

New this year! We have organized summer educational and training opportunities for medical students and residents. Some opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students are also available. Individuals work side by side with experts in the field to gain exposure to cutting edge research techniques and interventions, explore a career in psychiatry, gain research experience or other valuable work experience.

Dean Kilpatrick, Ph.D.
Interim Vice Chair for Education