The Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP) is specifically designed for training successful physician-scientists by giving trainees the opportunity to pursue clinical and research interests in parallel throughout the residency. By training with the most modern clinical, basic and translational research methods, graduates are poised to be the next generation of leaders in psychiatry and clinical neuroscience.
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Psychiatry has entered an era of revolutionary growth. Advances in genetics and neurobiology are unveiling the basis of mental illness. As a clinical neuroscience, psychiatry is poised on the threshold of major breakthroughs in the treatment of addictive, anxiety, mood, psychotic and cognitive disorders. Dramatic changes in our conception, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness are certain, and opportunities to be a part of such discoveries have never been greater.
Residency is a pivotal stage of a physician-scientist’s career path, where clinical and scientific independence and leadership are cultivated. For generations, the Yale NRTP has helped physician-scientists achieve their aspirations and has trained leaders in academic psychiatry. We hope that you will consider our program and help us realize our field's bright future.
Director, NRTP
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Translational Research, Psychiatry; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Program for Psychedelic Science, Psychiatry; Director, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale OCD Research Clinic, Psychiatry; Director, Neuroscience Research Training Program, Yale Department of Psychiatry
Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center, of Neuroscience and of Pharmacology; Director Division of Molecular Psychiatry, Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Basic Science Research, Dept. of Psychiatry; Director, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
The Yale Department of Psychiatry developed the Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP) specifically to train successful physician-scientists and prepare the field’s next generation of leaders. Through this specialized three- (PGY II-IV) or four-year (PGY I-IV) program funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Yale School of Medicine, the NRTP provides the opportunity to pursue clinical and research interests in parallel throughout the residency with mentors and colleagues at the forefront of clinical psychiatry and neuroscience.
We believe that training as physicians and as scientists must be integrated. One obstacle for young physician-scientists is that clinical and research training are too often pursued separately, in different phases of residency and fellowship. The NRTP integrates training in clinical psychiatry and in clinical, translational and basic research, at all phases of training. Residents in the NRTP are supported in discovering and pursuing their independent interests, and maximum flexibility in designing residents’ educational programs is provided. We believe that our role of educators of accomplished trainees nearing independence is to provide a rich and supportive mentorship environment for individual growth.