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Program profile · New York

Psychiatry residency at Putnam Hospital

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
Putnam Hospital (Northwell Health)
Location
Carmel, New York
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
Charles Herrick, MD, who is also described as network chair of psychiatry for the Northwell Health network. The program coordinator is Bridgette Snell, C-TAGME.
Size and structure
The program reports that it's a four-year categorical program based at Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel, with eight residents per year, for a total of 32. It says it participates in the ERAS and NRMP match under ACGME ID 4003500319.
Training sites and focus
The program describes a community-psychiatry emphasis with rotations across Putnam Hospital, Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, and Danbury, Norwalk, and Sharon hospitals in Connecticut, plus area clinics. It lists exposure to ECT, TMS, consultation-liaison, integrated care, telepsychiatry, and forensic and child and adolescent consultation.
Sponsorship change
The program's site notes that, effective September 2025, residency programs that had been under the Nuvance Health Consortium sponsoring institution transitioned to the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell sponsoring institution.

shrinkiatry context

Putnam is a community-psychiatry-focused residency in the Hudson Valley that trains across a multi-hospital, two-state network, so residents get rural and community exposure alongside subspecialty rotations. Its sponsorship recently moved into the Northwell academic system. It's in Carmel, in Putnam County.

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Sources

  1. Nuvance Health Learning Institute, Psychiatry Residency Program (Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Putnam Hospital). https://learning.nuvancehealth.org/residency-programs/psychiatry-residency-program/
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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