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Program profile · Indiana

Psychiatry residency at Indiana 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
Psychiatry Residency Program
Sponsoring institution
Indiana University School of Medicine
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana
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.

Program director
Aimee E. Patel, MD, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, who notes she's a graduate of the program herself.
Training arc
The program reports that the first year emphasizes patient interviewing, differential diagnosis, and pharmacologic treatment; the second year adds the subspecialties of addiction, adult and child, consultation-liaison, forensic, and geriatric psychiatry, plus the start of psychotherapy training; and the fourth year includes a junior-attending selective and substantial elective time.
Tracks
The program lists a child-psychiatry track, a research track fostering basic-science, clinical, and translational research, and an educator track for academic clinician-educators.

shrinkiatry context

Indiana University's Indianapolis program is the state's flagship academic psychiatry residency, a large university program with a broad subspecialty and research base that anchors several regional IU training sites across the state. It's in Indianapolis.

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Sources

  1. Indiana University School of Medicine, Psychiatry Residency, Indianapolis, Program Director's Welcome. https://medicine.iu.edu/psychiatry/education/residency/indianapolis/director
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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