Professional Education Overview

Medical Students, Residents, and Postdoctoral Fellows

Welcome to the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Our educational programs include medical students' education, general psychiatry residency, child and adolescent psychiatry residency, and post-doctoral fellowship and research training opportunities. Extensive information is available on each of these using the box on the box to the right. For general information about the School of Medicine, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and what the Baltimore region has to offer, see below.

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

The Johns Hopkins Hospital has been ranked the only hospItal in history to be ranked #1 by U.S. News & Workld Report for 21 years in a row. The School of Medicine has provided international leadership in the education of physicians and medical scientists, in biomedical research, and in the application of medical knowledge to sustain health since its opening in 1893. To read more about the history and mission of the school, please click here.

Henry Phipps Psychiatric Service

Since philanthropist Henry Phipps' endowment almost 100 years ago, the department has occupied a distinguished place in the history of psychiatry, with a continuous tradition of excellence in patient care, teaching, and research. In the US News and World Report, the Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has been consistently among the top five, ranking second in 2010. The Department  also consistently ranks nationally among the top departments in psychiatric research funded by the National Institutes of Health. To read more about our history, our chairman and our perspective, please click here.

Living in Baltimore

Baltimore is a vibrant city with a lively cultural scene to give it a metropolitan feel and diverse neighborhoods to make living here seem more like a small town. We are a short train ride away from Washington, DC and Philadelphia and the beaches and the mountains are within easy reach as well. To read more about the attractions in and around Baltimore along with handy web links for help with the logistics of moving, please click here.