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. 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 confrence each Spring, and a number of other continuing education events. Darlene Shaw, Ph.D. Vice Chair for Education
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