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Program profile · Georgia

Psychiatry residency at Emory University School of Medicine

Last verified July 27, 2026 · Checked against the program's official website

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 27, 2026.

Program
General Psychiatry Residency Program
Sponsoring institution
Emory University School of Medicine
Location
Atlanta, Georgia
Program type
General (adult) psychiatry
Training length
Four years (PGY-1 to PGY-4)
Accreditation
ACGME-accredited. See the ACGME ADS finder for the program's current accreditation status and identifier.

Reported by the program

The program describes the following on its official website, reviewed on July 27, 2026.

Director of residency education
Ann Schwartz, MD, vice chair for education. The program lists associate directors of residency education including Marsha Stern, MD, MPH, Joseph Vinson, MD, and DeJuan White, MD.
Training sites
The program reports inpatient rotations across Emory University Hospital, Grady Memorial Hospital, and the Atlanta VA Medical Center, with outpatient psychotherapy training in group, cognitive behavioral, and psychodynamic therapy beginning in the second year, and a psychopharmacology clinic beginning in the third year.
Electives and research
The program lists electives in child, geriatric, forensic, and treatment-resistant-depression psychiatry, and research settings including the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program, the Women's Mental Health Program, the Fuqua Center for Late-Life Depression, and the Grady NIA suicide-prevention project. It notes Emory ranks highly in NIH funding. A five-year combined internal medicine and psychiatry program is also offered.

shrinkiatry context

Emory's program is Georgia's flagship academic psychiatry residency, a large research-intensive program with unusually deep subspecialty and NIH-funded research resources across a university hospital, a major public safety-net hospital, and a VA. It's in Atlanta.

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Sources

  1. Emory University School of Medicine, General Psychiatry Residency Program. https://med.emory.edu/departments/psychiatry/education/general_residency/index.html
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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