Welcome to the Temple Psychiatry Residency homepage! We are excited that you have chosen to visit us.

Here at Temple, we pride ourselves on providing an outstanding education for the next generation of psychiatrists through a balanced curriculum of didactics, individual mentoring, and diverse supervised clinical experience. We conceptualize psychiatric education to be a faculty-resident partnership and feel privileged to work with our residents each day. 

Our comprehensive and dynamic didactic program is tailored to the clinical experience of each residency class. While we emphasize evidence-based medicine and diagnosis, neuropsychiatry, and emerging trends in biological psychiatry, we also place a strong emphasis on learning psychodynamic psychotherapy. We also encourage supplementary courses with the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and offer further supervision, patient care hours, and subspecialty education tracks based on resident interest. We value resident feedback to continually improve the Temple educational experience.

Academic achievement is highlighted at Temple University. Through individualized mentoring and guidance, we foster an environment conducive to furthering residents’ personal academic pursuits. We are proud of our graduates' accomplishments and scholarship. Many have matched to high-caliber fellowships throughout the nation. Recent graduates have completed fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Yale, University of Rochester, New York University, and Stanford University. Others have taken academic positions, including here at Temple, chosen private practice, or gone into public psychiatry.

Central to education in psychiatry is exposure to a breadth of psychopathology and patients from a wide variety of backgrounds. Here at Temple, residents gain clinical competency through well-structured and supervised clinical rotations and electives. A sampling of these rotations include a specialized psychosomatic outpatient clinic, young adult and college mental health outpatient elective rotation at Temple University Student Mental Health Center, forensic psychiatry, a variety of child and adolescent psychiatry experiences, emergency psychiatry, electroconvulsive therapy, sleep medicine, organ transplant evaluation, and eating disorders. If we do not have an elective of interest to residents, we help them create it.

Our residents are a bright, diverse, and energetic group of professionals. We encourage residents to build bonds and friendships through socialization outside of the work environment and are proud of the dynamic team atmosphere that they create. 

We are excited that you are interested in our program and we look forward to meeting you in person!

Sincerely,

Ruby Barghini, MD
Director, Psychiatry Residency Program

Ryan Serdenes, DO
Associate Director, Psychiatry Residency Program

Meghan Musselman, MD
Associate Director, Psychiatry Residency Program