About

Welcome to the Department of Psychiatry

The Department of Psychiatry is a clinical academic department within the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Our mission is to advance the understanding and treatment of psychiatric illness through excellence in clinical care, education, research, equitable leadership, advocacy, and community engagement.

The department consists of five clinical academic sections/divisions:

• Section of Acute, Consultation, and Emergency Psychiatry
• Section of Community Psychiatry
• Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Section of Forensic Psychiatry
• Section of Geriatric Psychiatry  

We offer training in undergraduate education, postgraduate education, a MSc. in Psychiatry Research, a PhD in Psychiatry Research, the Master of Clinical Psychiatry and Global Mental Health, and continuing education in psychiatry within the Faculty of Medicine. Our five-year residency program trains the next generation of psychiatrists with help from over 100 faculty members serving the child and adolescent, adult and senior populations.

The department boasts a very strong research program and collaborates with researchers anywhere from across the street to around the world.

Members of the department provide expert secondary and tertiary mental health care to the people of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island within the mental health programs at Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health.