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Program profile · New York

Psychiatry residency at Zucker Hillside Hospital (Northwell)

Last verified July 27, 2026 · Checked against the program's official website

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 27, 2026.

Program
General Adult Psychiatry Residency Program
Sponsoring institution
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell (Zucker Hillside Hospital)
Location
Glen Oaks, 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.

Setting
The residency is based at Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health's flagship freestanding behavioral health hospital, and sponsored by the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
Specialized services
Residents train across a broad continuum that includes a nationally recognized ECT service, geriatric psychiatry inpatient units, and an early-episode / first-episode psychosis program, plus behavioral health embedded in medical settings and digital CBT.
Development
A Pathways to Expertise program and translational research, with residents teaching in the school of medicine. The program offers housing adjacent to the hospital.

shrinkiatry context

The Zucker Hillside psychiatry residency trains at one of the country's larger freestanding psychiatric hospitals, part of Northwell Health, which gives residents deep exposure to specialized inpatient and research programs from ECT to first-episode psychosis care. The program pairs that clinical breadth with a strong research and medical-education mission through the Zucker School of Medicine. It's in Glen Oaks, in Queens near the Nassau County line.

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Sources

  1. Northwell Health, Residency in General Adult Psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital. https://physicians.northwell.edu/education/graduate-medical-education/residency-general-adult-psychiatry-zucker-hillside-hospital
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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