We pride ourselves in offering robust clinical training in general psychiatry and specialty areas, while also promoting resident wellness and work/life balance.
The Future of Clinical Research
The Department of Psychiatry provides training opportunities throughout the state and across various settings and levels of care to ensure our residents gain exposure to a multitude of diverse psychopathologies and sociocultural demographics. We’ve created a close-knit program to ensure adequate support for all of our learners. In addition to gaining clinical expertise, our residents are involved in research, quality improvement initiatives, and are key participants in medical student education.
Dean Amy P. Murtha, MD, and Senior Associate Dean for Population Health Research Shawna V. Hudson, PhD, FSBM, are among this year's EJI Awards honorees, recognizing outstanding healthcare leaders across New Jersey.
If you are a potential trainee, be sure that your experience will be second to none. If you are a patient, we will provide state of the art treatment in a respectful and caring atmosphere. If you are someone interested in research, we can provide the academic community in which you can prosper. And, if you are interested in community service, we can provide you with the opportunity to contribute to the care of individuals with many needs.
Anthony Tobia, MD
Senior Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Academic Programs
The General Psychiatry Residency program is structured to provide our residents with the knowledge and expertise to deliver superior psychiatric care to their patients. Our four-year broad-based curriculum includes areas such as neuropsychiatry, psychopathology, pharmacology, and various psychotherapeutic approaches to patient care. In addition, our program includes education in geriatrics, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), telepsychiatry, forensic and addiction psychiatry, and elective opportunities in the fourth year of training. The program gives our residents a sense of fellowship while providing comprehensive didactic and clinical training.
Our fellowship program offers accredited fellowships in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry and a non-ACGME accredited Pharmaceutical Medicine Fellowship.
We also offer a nationally recognized psychology internship through the Department of Psychiatry and our clinical partner, University Behavioral HealthCare.
Over the past ten years, the Department of Psychiatry has focused efforts on clinical research allowing our department to maintain funding from the National Institutes of Health, related foundations, and industry groups. We are involved in collaborations with researchers from other departments and institutes at the medical school throughout Rutgers University as well as outside institutions. Our research efforts encompass a wide variety of studies in the most important areas of psychiatry – including psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, addictions, tobacco dependence, cultural psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, primary care, and child and adolescent psychiatry.
CHOICES is a grant funded program founded by Jill M. Williams, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry. This program employs mental health peer counselors to deliver the message to smokers with mental illnesses that addressing tobacco is important and that they should seek treatment. The CHOICES goal is to eliminate disparities in access to tobacco cessation services by targeting the mentality ill, a group with heavy smoking and low socioeconomic status.
Eric B. Chandler Health Center
The Eric B. Chandler Health Center is located on George Street in downtown New Brunswick. It is one of the few federally qualified health centers owned and operated by a medical school. The Chandler Health Center provides clinical health care for local indigent populations (e.g., uninsured, Medicaid, under-insured). Each year our residents and medical students rotate at the Chandler Health Center helping to provide a number of community-based health and wellness programs.
Tobacco Free for a Health New Jersey - Central Region
The Tobacco Free for a Healthy New Jersey - Central Region program is dedicated to promoting community health through education and outreach. Members of this partnership are concerned citizens, community organizations, schools and other municipal programs in Central New Jersey. We are committed to to reduce the harms caused by tobacco use and dependence in Central New Jersey and to prevent initiation of tobacco use.
Hurtado Health Center
Hurtado Health Center is the largest of the three health centers that make up Rutgers University Health Services New Brunswick/Piscataway.
Clinical Services
Our clinical programs support and enhance our department's mission of training future clinicians in mental health through education, research, and community service. Our department oversees the Adult Psychiatric Clinic, the Autism Clinic, and the Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Program.
