Introduction
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences offers educational programs for medical students, residents in psychiatry and psychology, subspecialty clinical fellows, research trainees, clinical and regular faculty members, and the healthcare community throughout the WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) region. The overall mission of these programs is to provide outstanding, state-of-the-art, evidence-based education in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, to:
- prepare clinicians to provide excellent and compassionate clinical care for individuals with mental illness
- foster intellectual curiosity, a spirit of scientific inquiry, and the pursuit of lifelong scholarship
- train highly qualified scientific investigators to advance knowledge of the brain and behavior, and develop effective treatments for mental disorders
- encourage excellence in teaching
- promote collegial relationships and effective consultation between mental health and primary care providers, to best serve the medically and mentally ill
- serve the needs of disadvantaged and chronically mentally ill individuals
- serve the needs of the WWAMI region
We welcome your interest in our educational programs.
