Breadth and Integration

Inpatient training sites include:

• Inpatient adult, geriatric, and child & adolescent psychiatric units
• Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) and Extended Observation Unit (EOB)
• Rochester Regional Forensic Unit, an inpatient unit that treats prisoners with mental health issues.  
• Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Services
• Medicine in Psychiatry unit (MIPS), that includes a half-day per week in the outpatient MIPS clinic

Outpatient training sites include:

• Psychotherapy Training Clinic
• Strong Ties, an outpatient clinic for seriously and persistently mental ill patients
• The Older Adults Clinic
• The Schwarzkopf Clinic, an outpatient clinic associated with Rochester Psychiatric Center, a part the NY State Mental Health system
• The Adult Ambulatory Clinic, located downtown and which sees a wide range of patients
• The Socio-legal Clinic associated with the Monroe County Jail
• The outpatient UR Medicine Gender Wellness, Obstetrics & Gynecology clinics
• Highland Family Medicine
• The Mobile Crisis Team
• Interventional Psychiatry Clinic (ECT and TMS)
• The Healing Connection, for patients with eating disorders
• The Pediatric Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinic, for residents in the Child Track

The Department has providers ranging from physicians to psychologists to therapists, and is also a training site for Social Work and Psychology trainees.

The Department is well-integrated within many facets of UR Medicine. This affords opportunities for inter- and multi-specialty and inter- and multi-disciplinary work.

There is a breadth of training opportunities:

• General Medicine, both inpatient and outpatient
• Geriatrics and Aging
• Family Medicine
• Community primary care practices
• General Pediatrics and subspecialty areas of GI, Endocrinology, Neurology, Rheumatology, and the Kirch Developmental Center
• Ob/Gyn Department
• Transplant programs, including the Liver, Kidney, and Heart programs, also the LVAD program
• Neurology, including Epilepsy, Movement Disorders, and Memory Care
• The Cancer Center
• Dermatology
• Pain Medicine
• Eating Disorders

The Department has other longstanding services:

• Strong Recovery, the Department’s outpatient chemical dependency treatment program 
• The Deaf Wellness Service provides mental health care to deaf patients in Rochester, which has the largest deaf population per capita in the nation
• Lazos Fuertes, a mental health service for Spanish-speaking patients
• Family and Marriage Therapy Service

After Residency:

There are five ACGME-accredited Fellowships for those who wish to deepen their training:  Addictions Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, and Geriatric Psychiatry.