File #: 400-35-12-152 

Sponsor:  New York Medical College

Chairman, Department of Psychiatry,  Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Centers
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry,  New York Medical College
Joseph T. English, M.D.

Residency Training Director, Department of Psychiatry
Scot McAfee, M.D. 

Overview
Founded in 1957, the psychiatry residency training program at Saint Vincent's was one of the first such programs in the United States based in a teaching general hospital in the community. The training is based in one geographic location, which gives residents continuity and cohesion.  The location in Greenwich Village assures a rich diversity of patients.  The adult program has about forty residents, in the four-year general program.   PGY-5 psychiatry fellowship programs are provided in Geriatric Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 

The Program's orientation is broadly defined in order to meet the needs of the wide range of patients found in the neighborhoods surrounding Saint Vincent's, which represent a full mixture of socio-economic, ethnic, racial, demographic and other diverse characteristics, who present with the full gamut of psychopathology. The Department has strong links with other departments at Saint Vincent's, such as Oncology, Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and  Community Medicine.

The Department of Psychiatry's strengths lie in its clinical programs, but research is not ignored. Several of the residents and faculty are engaged in a variety of research projects such as community treatment of trauma, consent and capacity research and Latino mental health issues.  Residents have presented papers and posters, or organized workshops at annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association.

Saint Vincent's reputation for excellence has attracted an outstanding group of physicians for training. Many have been the recipients of awards from the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Psychiatrists, the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Medical Association, and others. Others have gone on to major careers in academic research and clinical psychiatry in both the private and public sector.