Offering clinical services, education and research opportunities in the only university department of psychiatry in Brooklyn.
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SUNY Downstate Psychiatry walking team at 2012 AFSP
The only university based program in Brooklyn offering a total of 48 residents training in general psychiatry, at multiple sites, each offering unique educational experiences.
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Providing a wide range of services aimed at promoting and caring for the mental health of all people.
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Grand Rounds
Complete Grand Rounds list of upcoming lectures (PDF).
Welcome to the Department of Psychiatry
"In order to cure the human body, it is necessary to have knowledge of the whole of things."Hippocrates
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Downstate is among the largest and most diverse in the country. As the only public medical school Department of Psychiatry in New York City, and the only University Department of Psychiatry in Brooklyn, New York's most populous borough, we have a complex, multidimensional mission.