St Luke’s Hospital – Anderson Campus Program

Program Identity & Fit

St. Luke's Psychiatry Residency is a community-based, university-affiliated program (Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine regional campus) built around broad clinical coverage rather than a narrow academic niche, spanning inpatient adult and geriatric psychiatry, child/adolescent inpatient care through Kids Peace, addiction psychiatry with buprenorphine certification for all residents, ECT/TMS, tele-psychiatry, consultation-liaison, and integrated collaborative care within an FQHC primary care clinic. The explicit "grow our own" retention philosophy, chief resident role in PGY4, two years of continuous longitudinal outpatient therapy/medication management, and broad elective menu (forensics, addictions, ECT, pain, palliative care) signal a program oriented toward producing well-rounded independent general psychiatrists rather than subspecialty-focused physicians, though fellowship-track graduates are also supported. Research exists through a dedicated network research department and resident scholarly activity beginning PGY1, but it functions as a supportive infrastructure rather than a defining institutional identity. The composition of current residents, drawn heavily from DO-granting schools, reflects a program comfortable training osteopathic and community-oriented physicians across the full breadth of psychiatric practice settings.