UM/Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Program

The Campus and Core Teaching Facilities:

The University of Maryland Medical Center is situated in the heart of Baltimore in a revitalized neighborhood known as University Center. This 50-block area includes the University of Maryland Medical Center and the University of Maryland Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Law, Pharmacy and Social Work. The campus also houses the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which is attached to UMMC via a pedestrian bridge, and the Walter P. Carter Center, a state psychiatric hospital serving Baltimore City.

The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital is located in Towson, approximately fifteen miles from the University of Maryland Medical Center. Its 100-acre wooded campus, including a new 192 bed acute inpatient facility, is adjacent to Towson University.

The core clinical facilities for psychiatry include the Medical Center, Sheppard Pratt, the Veterans Administration Maryland Health Care System, and the State Mental Hygiene Administration System, which includes the Walter P. Carter Center, the Spring Grove Hospital Center and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center.

The University of Maryland Medical Center -- Inpatient services include two general adult inpatient units, a children's unit, and a geriatric psychiatry unit. Outpatient services include: adult, child and geriatric outpatient clinics; adult, child and geriatric day hospitals; community treatment clinics including assertive community treatment; an infant study center. Additionally, the department provides general and substance abuse consultation/liaison services as well as medical crisis counseling to the general hospital.
The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital -- Inpatient services include psychotic disorders, short-stay adult, chemical dependency, geriatric psychiatry, trauma disorders, child, adolescent, adolescent neuropsychiatry and eating disorders as well as a psychopharmacology consultation service. Outpatient services include a resident’s clinic, neuropsychiatry clinic, general adult and several specialty day hospitals, community treatment programs, and two half-way houses.
State Mental Hygiene Administration System -- includes three adult inpatient units at the Walter P. Carter Center, one adult admission unit at the Spring Grove Hospital Center and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center with two research units and a research outpatient clinic. Also part of this system are five community mental health clinics which offer a variety of settings and approaches to patient care; a mobile crisis team; continuous care teams; several outpatient clinics; and substance abuse services.
The VA Maryland Health Care System -- The Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center houses one general inpatient unit, a day treatment program, a general outpatient clinic, a geriatric clinic, a dementia clinic, an assertive community treatment team, substance abuse services, a post-traumatic stress disorder clinic, and a consultation/liaison service.

This page was last updated on: October 12, 2009.

For more information, call the University Physicians Consultation and Referral Service at 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).