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The Department is pleased to announce results of the 2018 Residency Match for the General Psychiatry, Child, Triple Board, and Family Medicine/Psychiatry tracks. The new class of PGY1 residents was announced and celebrated at the Resident and Fellow Spring Gathering held March 16. We thank everyone who contributed during the recruitment season. General Psychiatry Patrick Buckley - University of Virginia School of...

The Department’s wide variety of federally sponsored postdoctoral research training programs (T32s) offer extensive support to help trainees optimize their ability to launch and sustain a research career in psychiatry. These trainees immerse themselves in a particular area of research for a two- to three-year period of protected time prior to obtaining a K Award and entering residency. Areas of research training...

The Department of Psychiatry is now accepting abstracts for consideration for poster presentations for its 18th Annual Research Day. If you would like to submit an abstract, click here to access the Call for Abstracts and Abstract Submission Form. The deadline for submission is April 6, 2018. Research Day will take place on Thursday, June 7, 2018 at the University Club on the Oakland campus. This full-day event is...

One of the most significant contributions to the field by Department of Psychiatry investigators is the development and testing of diagnostic tools for research and clinical practice. Assessment of children and adolescents can present unique challenges. For example, mood symptoms are more challenging to evaluate in children than in adults. In 1978 the late Joachim Puig-Antich, MD, a distinguished researcher and...

Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) opened its brand new Behavioral Health Intensive Care Unit (BHICU) to provide expert care and intensive psychiatric medication management for patients with high clinical acuity. The unit opened in November 2017 as part of a massive redesign of WPIC’s 7th floor and serves as an adjoining, seven-bed sister unit to a general adult unit. The safe, therapeutic environment...

Funding is now available for selected one-year pilot projects through the Department’s Clinical Value Project (CVP) Program. The program aims to improve care in a cost-effective way through quality or safety of care delivered, patient engagement and satisfaction, improved clinical outcomes, access to services, and efficiency of service delivery. Applicants must be physician clinician-educators who are either dually...