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UPMC Medical Education
Psychiatry Residency Program · Pittsburgh, PA
The Residency Training Program at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) offers many training options, for a total of 84 residents and fellows: General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP), Triple Board (pediatrics, general psychiatry, CAP) and Combined Family Medicine and Psychiatry programs. Residents may also participate in an Academic Administrator, Clinician Educator (AACE) Track or the Psychiatry Research Pathway (PRP). We also offer Fellowships in Geriatric, Addiction, Consultation-Liaison, Interventional and Public Service Psychiatry. We provide rigorous, comprehensive instruction in a challenging yet supportive atmosphere with active mentorship. Trainees take advantage of academic and clinical experiences in psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, neurosciences, public and community psychiatry, and psychiatric research as well as quality improvement and health services research. Faculty are accessible and highly invested in training. Residents learn to weigh and synthesize ideas and use evidence-based medicine approaches. This empirical approach to training is the thread that unites our increasingly diverse academic family.
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The Residency Training Program at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) offers many training options, for a total of 84 residents and fellows: General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP), Triple Board (pediatrics, general psychiatry, CAP) and Combined Family Medicine and Psychiatry programs. Residents may also participate in an Academic Administrator, Clinician Educator (AACE) Track or the Psychiatry Research Pathway (PRP). We also offer Fellowships in Geriatric, Addiction, Consultation-Liaison, Interventional and Public Service Psychiatry. We provide rigorous, comprehensive instruction in a challenging yet supportive atmosphere with active mentorship. Trainees take advantage of academic and clinical experiences in psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, neurosciences, public and community psychiatry, and psychiatric research as well as quality improvement and health services research. Faculty are accessible and highly invested in training. Residents learn to weigh and synthesize ideas and use evidence-based medicine approaches. This empirical approach to training is the thread that unites our increasingly diverse academic family.
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Meghan E Wander
Eric Thut
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