NYU Langone’s Department of Psychiatry offers a residency curriculum that encourages students to pursue their scholarly interests. This program features a Resident Scholar–Clinician Track, Resident Specialty Expertise Track, and Resident Clinician–Educator Track. Each track offers mentorship and encourages residents to engage in meaningful, productive learning endeavors.

To learn more about the application process, please contact program director Deepti Anbarasan, MD at Deepti.Anbarasan@NYULangone.org and associate program director Liliya Gershengoren, MD at Liliya.Gershengoren@NYULangone.org.

Resident Scholar–Clinician Track

Residents interested in developing an area of scholarly expertise are encouraged to participate in the Resident Scholar–Clinician Track. Academic productivity is highly valued and may help residents seeking a specialty fellowship or faculty position. This track augments the existing Research Career Accelerated Track and the Research Career Development Track.

Residents design and implement a scholarly project in postgraduate year 3 (PGY-3) and PGY-4. Project choices include medical education, quality improvement, psychiatry specialties, medical humanities, clinical research, and healthcare equity and delivery transformation. Program leadership helps residents identify a faculty content mentor who meets with residents monthly. The program director meets residents every six months to collaborate and review progress. Residents presenting their work at a regional or national conference may use more than the allotted three conference days on an annual basis. If the resident has exhausted their conference funds, discretionary department funding will be made available when possible. Residents are recognized for completing the Resident Scholar–Clinician Track at graduation.

Resident Specialty Expertise Track

Residents in this track may use their electives and protected scholarship time to develop a course of study to increase their knowledge base and hone their clinical skills. Potential treatment modalities include neuromodulation or psychodynamic psychotherapy with additional coursework at an institute, specific patient populations, or specific disorders. Other examples include public psychiatry and women’s mental health mini-fellowships. Residents in PGY-3 or PGY-4 are eligible for this track and may remain in this track until graduation.

Program leadership helps residents identify a supervisor to guide them in their course of study. Supervisors mentor residents in the production of one scholarly project, including a manuscript submission to a peer- or non–peer-reviewed publication, residency noon-hour talk, or departmental research day poster. Each resident meets with the associate program director every six months to review their progress. Residents are recognized for completing the Resident Specialty Expertise Track at graduation.

Resident Clinician–Educator Track

The Resident Clinician–Educator Track is a unique opportunity that offers residents a way to develop effective academic and leadership skills. Residents become experts in efficient administration in undergraduate and graduate mental health education. This specialized track emphasizes clinical and didactic teaching skills and curriculum development. Residents lead small group discussions, present and lecture to medical students and junior residents, and engage in clinical teaching at the bedside. Curriculum projects include creating and modifying educational materials and developing innovative teaching methods. Residents will master research skills to evaluate learners, teaching faculty, and educational programs.

PGY-2 residents review principles of adult learning theory as well as teaching styles for different learners and clinical environments during quarterly meetings with the program director and associate program director.

PGY-3 and PGY-4 residents collaborate with NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s psychiatry clerkship director to design curriculum and participate in didactics and small group learning. The program director and associate program director assist residents with course development for the residency training curriculum. Residents co-lead a lecture series with teaching faculty and partner with the education chief on facilitating structural case conferences, resident grand rounds, and morbidity and mortality conferences. Residents participate in the Program Evaluation Committee Education Subcommittee monthly meetings and have the opportunity to become education chief in PGY-4.

PGY-3 and PGY-4 residents are encouraged to attend one national meeting per year, including the Association for Academic Psychiatry, American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training, and Association of American Medical Colleges. All residents are encouraged to apply for external medical education awards and fellowships. Residents are recognized for completing the Resident Clinician–Educator Track at graduation.