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Overview

  • Uniquely positioned with its focus on education at the intersection of biomedicine and the social sciences
  • Emphasizes original, scholarly work for training and advocating for medical students, residents, fellows, and health care professionals in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences 
  • Provides a professional development forum for academic leaders in psychiatry
  • Offers a rigorous yet swift review process, with a median of 18 days from submission to first decision
  • Recognized as the official journal of the American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry, American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, Association for Academic Psychiatry, and Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry
Editor-in-Chief
  • Adam M. Brenner MD

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
2.8 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
2.5 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
18 days
Downloads
600.5k (2025)

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Journal updates

  • Entering Academia: Learner perspectives on becoming leaders in psychiatry education

    Throughout medical education and residency and fellowship training, learners have opportunities to share their acquired knowledge with others across the spectrum of academic psychiatry. We have much to learn by listening to our trainees. 

  • Call for Papers: Advancing Competency-Based Medical Education in Psychiatry Training

    This collection seeks to bring together scholarly, empirical, and practice-informed work that advances understanding of how CBME can be thoughtfully implemented, evaluated, and sustained across psychiatry residency and fellowship programs. We welcome submissions that examine innovations, implementation experiences, and critical reflections—including lessons learned from challenges or unsuccessful efforts—as well as perspectives that address the future direction of CBME in psychiatry. We particularly encourage submissions that include quantitative or qualitative data, rigorous program evaluation, and scholarship that is attentive to contextual variability across training programs, including differences in size, resources, and institutional settings.

    Editors

    Erick Hung, MD, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Associate Dean for Students, UCSF School of Medicine

    John Q. Young, MD, MPP, PhD, Frances and Thomas Gambino Professor in Psychiatry and Chair, Department of Psychiatry at Zucker School of Medicine; Chair and Senior Vice President for Behavioral Health at Northwell; Chair, Department of Psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital. 

  • Media Column Changes

    Academic Psychiatry has moved to a new approach for media-related content. Rather than housing it in a column, the journal is now receiving media-related submissions of all types on an ongoing basis.

  • Call for Papers on Media in Psychiatry Education

    Media can profoundly affect culture, reflecting and changing society. Knowledge, values, attitudes, and behavior may be deeply rooted in our experience of media. What effect may applications of media have on education in psychiatry?

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1545-7230
Print ISSN
1042-9670
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