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Program profile · New York

Psychiatry residency at Rochester Regional Health (Rochester General 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
Rochester Regional Health (Rochester General Hospital)
Location
Rochester, 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
Kelley-Anne Cyzeski Klein, MD. The acting associate program director is Sahar Elezabi, MD, the department chair is Mary K. Marrocco, MD, and the program's founder and past director is Ann Griepp, MD.
Base and volume
Rochester General Hospital, a 528-bed hospital, which the program describes as offering the most expansive behavioral health services in Upstate and Western New York.
Training sites
Urban and rural rotations across the system, including community mental health centers, a VA rotation in the PGY-3 year, and inpatient psychiatry at St. Mary's in the PGY-4 year, with exposure to addiction, consultation-liaison, geriatric, and child psychiatry.
Character
A community teaching program rather than a university one, though many faculty hold university appointments; Rochester is described as the home of the biopsychosocial model.

shrinkiatry context

The Rochester Regional Health psychiatry residency is a community-based program at one of the region's busiest hospitals, giving residents high clinical volume across a large behavioral health system that spans urban and rural sites. The curriculum builds from inpatient, emergency, and medicine rotations toward longitudinal outpatient and psychotherapy care, with subspecialty exposure and an emphasis on wellness and community psychiatry. It's in Rochester, in the Finger Lakes region.

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Sources

  1. Rochester Regional Health, Psychiatry Residency (Rochester General Hospital). https://education.rochesterregional.org/residencies/rgh-psychiatry/
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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