Training Programs 

The Duke University Department of Psychiatry offers a number of graduate medical education programs in psychiatry.  All six of the programs below are fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

          General Psychiatry   (4 years)
          Combined Internal Medicine-Psychiatry   (5 years)
          Child and Adolescent Psychiatry   (2 years)
          Geriatric Psychiatry   (1 year)
          Addictions Psychiatry   (1 year)
          Forensic Psychiatry  (1 year)

The Department of Psychiatry jointly sponsors the following research fellowships:

Duke-Glaxo-Wellcome Fellowship in Psychopharmacology   (2 years)
Behavioral Medicine Research Fellowship Clinical Research Methodology Fellowship
Biological Psychiatry Research Fellowship
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Mental Health Services and Systems Research (1-2 years cosponsored with Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Psychoanalytic training is offered through the joint sponsorship of the Departments of Psychiatry of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University:

UNC/Duke Psychoanalytic Education Program and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center

In addition, there are numerous opportunities for advanced study and research within other departments in the medical center and the university during and after residency training, including, but not limited to, collaborations with:

The Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development

 

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Making Yourself at Home:  Durham and North Carolina 

Located in the lush and rolling piedmont region near the geographic center of the State of North Carolina, Durham is an eminently livable town with most of the amenities you might expect to find in a much larger, urban environment.  Durham’s population today is nearly 200,000---one of the three city hubs in what is known as “the Triangle,” a metropolitan area of just under a million.

While the universities in the area contribute significantly to the enterprise and energy you will find here, on its own, Durham has always been a city rich in surprising contrasts---blue collar and white collar, natives and newcomers, conservative and progressive, industrial and agricultural, scholars and artisans, old neighborhoods and new, and people from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds.

The Durham Arts Council, designated as a National Model by the National Endowment for the Arts, sponsors numerous events, exhibitions, and classes throughout the year, including an annual street arts festival, a local symphony, an outdoor street opera held every summer in a renovated tobacco warehouse which has been transformed into a plaza for small, one-of-a-kind retail shops.

The Triangle area offers plentiful opportunities for residents to listen to---and participate in---music ranging from classical to gospel to jazz.  Indigenous musical traditions are celebrated annually through the Bull Durham Blues Festival and the Festival for the Eno (River).

Enjoyment of the visual arts if furthered through numerous galleries in the Triangle area, and the North Carolina Museum of Art is only twenty minutes from campus.  The museum contains paintings and sculptures representing 5,000 years of aesthetic development and a nationally recognized European old masters collection.  In addition, special exhibitions, slide talks, films, performances, daily tours, a museum shop, and an on-premise cafe are available.

To obtain more information about events and activities in Durham, call the “Durham Bullhorn,” a 24-hour voice information recording at (919) 688-BULL or (800) 772-BULL.  You can also visit Durham’s home page at http://dcvb.durham.nc.us.

Shop in Durham and you will find everything from bagels to grits, fine art to native crafts, designer labels to thrift store seconds.  Entrepreneurship thrives here---a number of Duke graduates have found the city so appealing, they have stayed to open bookstores, ethnic and specialty restaurants, gourmet groceries, and other shops.  Young Duke alumni in recent years have also taken an active part in Durham’s city government and environmental planning.

Durham is a remarkably green city with 57 parks within the city limits alone.  It is home to the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, especially popular with parents and children.  The museum features seventy-eight acres of prehistory exhibits, a mini-zoo, a narrow gauge railroad, and the finest aerospace exhibit outside the Smithsonian.  Durham is also home to the Durham Bulls baseball team, the Triple A farm team for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.  The Bulls are one of the most successful minor league franchises in the country, providing a popular summer evening’s family outing.

Durham is headquarters for the largest black-managed financial institution in the world, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company.  The city also supports a second university, North Carolina Central, the first state-supported liberal arts college for African Americans in the United States.

Durham is fifteen minutes by freeway to the Research Triangle Park where the National Center for the Humanities, the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, and a number of other government and private industrial research facilities are located.  Names such as EPA, IBM, GlaxoWellcome, Mitsubishi, and Northern Telecom represent research in biotechnology, microelectronics, pharmacology, telecommunications, and other fields.  With over fifty-five major companies in residence today and plenty of room to grow, RTP employs more than thirty-four thousand people.

To the southwest of Durham is Chapel Hill (twenty minutes) and to the east is the state capital, Raleigh (twenty-five minutes).  In a little over three hours, you can be on the North Carolina coast where you’ll find some of the cleanest, least crowded beaches on the Atlantic.  Four hours to the west will get you to the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Smokies with opportunities for hiking, fishing and skiing.  North Carolina has an exceptional highway system which offers easy access to a number of large lakes and beautiful state parks for hiking and camping in close proximity to Durham.  The North Carolina Zoo---one of the largest native habitat zoos in the country---is less than ninety minutes from town.

North Carolina’s broad and diverse geography---from coastal plain, to sandhills, to piedmont, to the highest mountains east of the Mississippi---offers an unparalleled scenery for those inclined to explore.  From Durham, Atlanta is six hours south by car and Washington, DC is five hours north.

In Durham, spring comes early, fall lasts into November and you can usually expect at least one good snowfall each winter.  Temperatures are moderate throughout the year, allowing outdoor recreation all year long.

Overall, the cost of living in Durham is very reasonable compared to the major metropolitan centers of the Northeast, West, and Southwest.  the rural quality that remains in most of the greater Triangle area and Durham’s lower relative cost of living compared to her sister cities of Chapel Hill and Raleigh undoubtedly contribute significantly to Durham’s being consistently ranked high in a number of national studies as a place to live and work.

(adapted, with permission, from the Duke University Graduate Studies Bulletin)

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