Rochester Regional Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

Rochester Regional Health's Psychiatry Residency is a community-based, non-university program (though many faculty hold university appointments) built around the largest behavioral health network in Upstate/Western New York, giving residents high-volume exposure to inpatient psychiatry, addiction treatment, and two busy psychiatric emergency services (CPEP) spanning both urban Rochester and rural sites like Clifton Springs. The curriculum is broad rather than research-driven, emphasizing full-spectrum clinical competence across adult, child, geriatric, consultation-liaison, forensic, and addiction psychiatry, with longitudinal outpatient/psychotherapy training in later years. The program explicitly positions graduates for any practice setting - community psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, consultation-liaison, private practice, or fellowship - rather than steering toward academic medicine, and values resilience, community engagement, and independent clinical judgment over publication output. Distinctive features include the CPEP emergency psychiatry volume, a dedicated forensic rotation at RPC, an ACT team rotation, and structured wellness programming integrated into didactics.