Education

UNC Psychiatry Residency & Fellowship Programs

• General Psychiatry Residency Program
  Karon Dawkins, M.D., Director
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Program
  Karen K. Poulos, M.D., Director
• Forensic Psychiatry Residency
  Peter N. Barboriak, M.D., Ph.D., Director
• Research Fellowship Program
  John H. Gilmore, M.D., Director
• Eating Disorders Fellowship Program
  Cynthia Bulik, Ph.D., Director
• Clinical Psychology Internship Program
  Gladys Williams, Ph.D., Director

The UNC Department of Psychiatry was created, along with the other clinical departments, when the School of Medicine expanded from a two-year pre-clinical medical school to a fully accredited school of medicine in 1952.  Charged with developing a training pipeline for psychiatrists to staff North Carolina's growing mental health system, the Department's founding chair, George C. Ham, M.D., emphasized a progressive integration of biological and social factors with then-traditional psychological approaches in the study and treatment of psychiatric illnesses.  Ham’s vision also included an appreciation of the synergy among the Department's three missions of clinical service, training, and research.

Today, the Department of Psychiatry is continually expanding and adapting to meet a host of changing needs.  Our residency training programs in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry are among the most respected in the country.  We offer comprehensive training integrating cutting-edge neurobiology and pharmacology with psychological and social approaches to the understanding and treatment of psychiatric illnesses.   Graduates of our programs assume positions of leadership in academia (including several current Chairs of major departments of psychiatry), public service, private practice, and other areas of the private sector.  The Department of Psychiatry takes pride in the accomplishments of its residents as well as its faculty.

For additional information about our training programs, please visit their respective Web pages or contact the appropriate Training Coordinator.

All requests for information should include the following:

1. your name
2. your email address
3. your daytime phone number

Program Contacts:

For General Psychiatry information,
email Lesia_Irving@med.unc.edu.

For Child & Adolescent Psychiatry information,
email Lesia_Irving@med.unc.edu.

For Forensic Psychiatry information,
email Lesia_Irving@med.unc.edu.

For Research information,
email Janice_Linn@med.unc.edu.

For Eating Disorders information,
email Bonnie_Griffin@med.unc.edu.

For Clinical Psychology information,
email Kyle_Cory@med.unc.edu.

Thank you.