New York Medical College at St Joseph's Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a small, newly accredited (2022) community-based psychiatry program sponsored by NYMC and rooted in the Catholic, mission-driven Saint Joseph's Medical Center, training residents across two Westchester County campuses: an urban community hospital in Yonkers and a suburban behavioral health facility in Harrison. The clinical identity centers on breadth of psychiatric service lines rather than tertiary research infrastructure - 182 inpatient beds with specialized geriatric, adolescent, and addiction units, crisis/mobile response services, the 988 call center, PROS, and a large outpatient mental health and substance use population. Research is not emphasized; instead the program highlights close faculty-resident contact, direct involvement in quality improvement initiatives, and resident voice in shaping a developing program. Career orientation leans toward generalist community psychiatry with particular strength in addiction, child/adolescent, geriatric, and community-based care, and the program explicitly seeks residents who are flexible and excited to help build a new program rather than step into a fixed, established structure.