Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency
The department offers an accredited two-year program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, which includes an integrated track. This allows for training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to be woven into the residency throughout the five years of training. We also offer a research track for residents who plan to enter research careers.
Residents are active members of the department, and play an important role in shaping its educational goals, as we believe that this interchange promotes positive morale and a more rewarding training experience. Our goal is to train residents in a supportive and clinically diverse setting which is dedicated to academic excellence, so that they become competent, compassionate, and scientifically informed psychiatrists.
Overview
The University at Buffalo's Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers an ACGME-accredited Residency Training Program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The two-year program leads to eligibility for Board certification in the subspecialty. Residents may enter the program at any point following medical school, although the program prefers applicants who have passed Step 3 of the USMLE and completed at least 3 years of general psychiatry residency training.
The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, headed by Bruce D. Miller, MD, is a part of the Department of Psychiatry at the University at Buffalo. Steven Dubovsky, MD, is the chair of the department and is actively involved in the child residency program. The program is sponsored at an institutional level by the University at Buffalo Office of Graduate Medical Education.
The Residency Training Program strives to provide an individualized and collegial environment in which residents can learn to become expert, ethical, and broad based child and adolescent psychiatrists. While academic rigor, technical skill, and research are highly valued, the program strives to foster the development of residents' empathy, capacity for leadership, and interpersonal relatedness. While a number have become academic child/adolescent psychiatrists, most graduates have devoted their careers to clinical work. The program pursues a systemic biopsychosocial approach recognizing that psychotherapeutic skill, the heart and soul of clinical practice, must be integrated with a strong foundation in psychopharmacology and the neurosciences. We hope that residents leave with an appreciation for the richness of cultural experience and for the uniqueness of each family's interactive process.
David L. Kaye, MD
Director of Training
(716) 859-5456
dlkaye@buffalo.edu