Thank you for your interest in the Zucker School of Medicine/Northwell Health at Mather Hospital Psychiatry Residency Program. Mather Hospital offers a warm, friendly community atmosphere within a large academic system, creating a wealth of opportunities for our residents. Mather accepts six residents per class for a total of 24. Mather provides diverse and unique clinical behavioral health experiences. Graduating residents develop expertise in caring for psychiatric patients across a wide clinical, age-related, and cultural spectrum. This multidisciplinary, patient-centered approach is enhanced by a comprehensive, resident-focused didactic curriculum.
Wellness and Cultural Awareness are paramount to our program, demonstrated by the newly created position of Chief Resident of Community, Culture, and Well-being. Dedicated Wellness days for each PGY class ensure residents have time for self-care. The Office of Academic Affairs Wellness Committee continually develops initiatives to enhance faculty and resident well-being. All residents have access to robust array of mental health resources through our sponsoring institution and site-level resources. Reflecting our commitment to work-life balance, there is no overnight call during any PGY year. Our residency program is deeply committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive learning environment. This commitment extends to actively recruiting a diverse workforce, providing ongoing training for faculty and residents on implicit bias, and ensuring culturally sensitive care for all patients, regardless of background. We believe that a diverse and inclusive environment enriches the training experience and better prepares our residents to serve the needs of our community.
Mather’s Psychiatry Residency Program offers the best of both worlds: rich clinical experience in a supportive, community-based setting. Resident feedback is highly valued and actively sought to drive program improvement.
As the primary site for the psychiatry program, Mather provides a full continuum of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services for adolescents and adults. This comprehensive experience is essential for educating residents in diagnosing, treating, and preventing psychiatric disorders and related medical and neurological conditions. In addition to inpatient adult psychiatric and adult partial hospitalization programs, Mather offers the only acute care adolescent psychiatric unit and adolescent partial hospitalization program in Suffolk County. Mather’s outpatient programs include a mental health clinic, a resident outpatient practice, outpatient perinatal psychiatry, outpatient geriatric psychiatry, a comprehensive partial hospitalization program, an eating disorders program, and a chemical dependency program.
Furthermore, residents at Mather Hospital benefit from expanded elective learning opportunities, including on-site rotations in Esketamine, a Rapid Access Center, and soon, TMS. A new Child Psychiatry Fast-Track provides direct admission to the Zucker Hillside Fellowship program after the third year of training. Starting in July 2025, PGY-1 residents will experience child psychiatry during their first year. This early exposure underscores our program’s commitment to this vital field. Faculty and psychologists provide CBT, psychodynamic, motivational interviewing and DBT psychotherapy training, and PGY-2 residents gain early exposure to outpatient care. Our Associate Program Directors (APDs), including Dr. Jessica Cosgrove and Dr. Joanna Stanczak are dedicated to teaching and mentorship, supported by a robust faculty mentorship program.
Northwell Health also offers a wealth of resources and elective clinical opportunities that residents can explore throughout training, along with our partnerships with Pilgrim State Hospital and Stony Brook Hospital CPEP.
Mather residents enjoy the unique advantage of training in a well-established community hospital with a rich clinical environment and diverse patient population, all while benefiting from the extensive resources and support of the larger Northwell Health system. Mather and Northwell are deeply committed to providing an exceptional training experience and dedicate all necessary resources to achieve this goal.
Jenna Taglienti, MD