Residency Training Program
 Greetings from the Georgetown University Hospital Department of Psychiatry!
I am Alan Newman, M.D. psychiatry residency
training director at Georgetown University Hospital. After completing medical school
and psychiatry residency at the University of Arkansas, I completed a fellowship in
Forensic Psychiatry at Tulane. Since completing my training in 1999, I have been on
the faculty of the Tulane University Medical School. Immediately before coming to
Georgetown I served as the Director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program
from 2002-2003 and as Director of Medical Student Education from 2003 to the
present. Here at Georgetown I serve as director of the inpatient and partial
hospitalization units. I assumed the position of psychiatry residency training director
on June 1, 2005.
The psychiatry residency at Georgetown is a stable one. It has a 50-year history
of graduating well-trained psychiatrists who are comfortable in any situation
they might confront. Recently the program was awarded a full five-year accreditation
by the Residency Review Committee which represents the maximum period of accreditation.
Fewer than 40% of programs evaluated achieve a full five-year accreditation.
Over the years the Georgetown Department of Psychiatry has striven to provide
comprehensive balanced training. Intensive training includes, but is not limited
to, interviewing, diagnosis of mental illness, psychopharmacologic treatment
and the full range of psychotherapeutic and biologic modalities. The supervisory
faculty is comprised of a large group of psychiatrists and psychologists whose
experience and interest span psychiatry from classical analysis to psychopharmacology.
These men and women expose residents to a broad array of treatment options
and philosophies.
There is a core curriculum of didactics that spans the four year program as
well as structured seminars, grand rounds and multiple other educational opportunities
for the residents. We strive to integrate psychodynamics, still the basic
vocabulary of psychiatry, with biologic and psychopharmacologic aspects of
diagnosis and treatment in an atmosphere that respects psychiatry's illustrious
past but is also aware of the career choices facing young psychiatrist in
the 21st century. There are opportunities for senior residents to participate
in subspecialty clinics in child/adolescent, geriatrics, neuropsychiatry and
women's mental health to name a few. An exciting opportunity has arisen in
our new clinic treating post-traumatic stress disorder.
Washington, D.C. offers tremendous opportunities for training as well
as an exciting life outside the training situation. The Smithsonian,
other museums, an enormous array of performing arts and excellent eating
within all price ranges are only some of Washington's attractions. The hospital
is located on the campus of Georgetown University a geographical fact that
adds a sense of energy that is difficult to describe but vibrant nonetheless.
The amazing resources of the NIH/NIMH library are a short drive or subway
ride away.
I am proud to be the training director for the department of Psychiatry at
Georgetown . If you have any questions regarding the residency training program
do not hesitate to contact Matt Ellis, Residency Training Coordinator,
or myself. Thank you for your interest in our psychiatry residency program. I
look forward to meeting with you soon.
Sincerely,
Alan Newman, M.D.
Residency Training Director
Director, Inpatient and Partial Hospitalization Units
Georgetown
University Hospital
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