Mission Statement

The University of New Mexico School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry provides excellent, innovative education for medical students, resident physicians, scientists, clinical psychologists, and other health professionals.  We endeavor to give the highest quality patient care for New Mexicans suffering with severe and diverse mental illnesses as well as diligently pursuing outstanding multidisciplinary research that helps solve important health problems.

 We are committed to fostering an academic environment that is characterized by respect, compassion, and evidence-based approaches in education, clinical care, and scholarship.  We seek to develop and perfect programs that foster and reward synergistic relationships among our primary goals in education, clinical care, and research in the context of a dramatically changing health care system.