Overview

Program Overview

The ETSU Quillen College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry Residency Program trains psychiatrists to practice in academic, state, federal, private and rural settings, or to pursue subspecialty training.

The mission of the ETSU psychiatry residency is to prepare general psychiatrists to provide safe, evidence-based, patient-centered care to a diverse population, with a focus on improving the mental health of Northeast Tennessee and surrounding areas. The program also seeks to develop physicians who embody professionalism, contribute to the education of medical students and residents, and advance the field of psychiatry through scholarship.

The residency, accredited since 1985, offers training at multiple sites, including the Mountain Home Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Woodridge Psychiatric Hospital and ETSU facilities. Residents gain experience in electroconvulsive therapy, telepsychiatry, VA mental health intensive case management, VA primary care mental health consultations, psychopharmacology, sleep medicine, substance use treatment, pain medicine, and outpatient consultations with ETSU psychology and nurse practitioner clinics. A research rotation is also available.

Applicants are invited to connect with the program virtually to learn more, meet residents, explore facilities and see what the region has to offer.

• Program Outcomes:

  2025

  • Forensic Psychiatry – Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

  • Sleep Medicine – Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, New Hampshire

  2024

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – Johns Hopkins University

  2023

  • Addiction Psychiatry – Grossman School of Medicine, New York University

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – University of Florida

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – Carilion Clinic, Virginia Tech

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – University of Louisville

  2022

  • Addiction Psychiatry – Baylor College of Medicine

  2021

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center

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