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Program profile · Michigan

Psychiatry residency at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services (MSU)

Last verified July 25, 2026 · Checked against the program's official website

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 25, 2026.

Program
Psychiatry Residency
Sponsoring institution
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services / Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Location
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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 25, 2026.

Class size
Ten residents per class in the general program, plus two per class in the rural track.
Setting
Pine Rest is one of the largest freestanding psychiatric hospitals in the country, on a roughly 200-acre campus with nearly 200 inpatient beds, plus a 19-clinic outpatient network with more than 300,000 visits a year across Michigan.
Specialty training
Exposure to addiction, child and adolescent, forensic, geriatric, neuromodulation, neuropsychiatry, and psychosomatic medicine, with a rural track and a developing women's health track.
Program director
Not stated plainly on the page reviewed here; see the program's Meet Our Team page and the ACGME ADS finder.

shrinkiatry context

The program received full ACGME accreditation in April 2013 in affiliation with the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, and residents teach MSU medical students. It is in Grand Rapids, a metropolitan area in West Michigan about two and a half hours from Detroit and Chicago.

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Sources

  1. Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, Psychiatry Residency. https://www.pinerest.org/residency-fellowships/residency/
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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