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The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Science provides a number of high quality clinical programs, a psychiatry
residency program and accredited fellowships in child and geriatric psychiatry,
and an array of sponsored research activities. At present there are
approximately 45 full time faculty and numerous voluntary faculty who
participate in supervision and training of students.
The clinical services are chiefly operated at
Stony Brook University Hospital, but there are affiliated clinical and
teaching programs and Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, the
Northport Veteran's Hospital, and Nassau University Hospital. The University
Hospital Psychiatry Service includes an active Comprehensive Psychiatry Emergency
Program, a 30 bed Adult unit and a 10 bed Child unit, Adult and Child outpatient
facilities, as well as a consultation service. In addition, the department
operates an accredited sleep disorders program at St. Charles Hospital.
The accredited residency program maintains
24 positions, usually admitting 6 candidates per year. Five of these
positions are sponsored by the Northport Veterans Hospital where the
residents rotate for inpatient and substance abuse experience. There
are also 4 Child and Adolescent Fellowship positions, a Sleep Disorders Fellowship
and a Geriatric Fellowship. Medical Students rotate through our clinical
services at University Hospital as well as a Nassau University Medical
Center and the VA Hospital.
Psychiatry provides a significant leadership
role in directing and implementing the medical school curriculum. Psychiatry
faculty direct Introduction to Human Behavior, Molecules, Cells
and Genes, Psychiatric and Behavioral Neuroscience, as well as
two required clerkships, Clinical Psychiatry and Psychiatry and Medicine.
There are many active research projects
funded by NIH, NIMH, NIDA, NIAAA, NCI, etc. In addition, pharmaceutical
industry sponsored clinical trials make available cutting edge treatment
options to our patients.
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