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Program profile · New York

Psychiatry residency at Saint Joseph's Medical Center in Yonkers

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
New York Medical College at Saint Joseph's Medical Center
Location
Yonkers, 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
Alexa Whoriskey, MD.
Sponsor and sites
The program describes itself as the New York Medical College at Saint Joseph's Medical Center Psychiatry Residency Program, offered jointly at Saint Joseph's Medical Center in Yonkers and its St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester division in Harrison. NYMC also sponsors a family medicine residency at Saint Joseph's.
Clinical scope
The institution reports that Saint Joseph's and St. Vincent's provide the broadest array of psychiatric services in Westchester County, with 182 inpatient beds, including geriatric, adolescent, addiction-rehabilitation, and intermediate-care units, and that they treat more than 4,000 patients in outpatient mental-health programs and more than 500 in outpatient substance-use programs. Residents rotate through crisis services, including a mobile crisis team, the Westchester call center for the 988 line, and an intensive crisis residence.

shrinkiatry context

This New York Medical College program is a newer, small psychiatry residency built on a large safety-net behavioral-health system in Westchester County, so residents get heavy exposure to crisis, community, and public-sector psychiatry with close faculty contact. As a program that started in the 2020s, its track record is still developing. It's in Yonkers, in Westchester County, with a second campus in Harrison.

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Sources

  1. Saint Joseph's Medical Center, NYMC at Saint Joseph's Psychiatry Residency Program, Director's Message. https://saintjosephs.org/residency-programs/nymc-sjmc-psychiatry-residency/director/
  2. New York Medical College, Psychiatry Residency Program Launched at Saint Joseph's Medical Center. https://www.nymc.edu/newsroom/stories/psychiatry-residency-program-at-saint-josephs-medical-center.php
  3. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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