The Brattleboro Retreat has announced that Dr. Michael Kahn has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the Teaching Award for Excellence in Medical Education, an honor that is given out jointly by the Retreat and Albany Medical College (AMC).
Since 2013 The Brattleboro Retreat has served as a teaching hospital where third and fourth year medical students from AMC can complete their required clinical rotations in psychiatry. Dr. Kahn received the highest number of votes from AMC students who completed their psychiatry rotations at the Retreat over the past year.
A native of North Carolina, Dr. Kahn joined the Retreat’s medical staff in July 2013 providing clinical consultation and educational presentations across the organization. He also attends adolescent and adult patients who are receiving inpatient care as well as adults in the Retreat’s partial hospital program. He is currently working with hospital administration on expanding his teaching and consultative roles.
Dr. Kahn and his wife, Eleanor, divide their time between Brattleboro and North Conway, NH, where they ran a private group practice for more than 20 years.
In his acknowledgement of Dr. Kahn’s teaching award Albany Medical College Clerkship Director Steve Sandler said, “Our students are consistently impressed with the quality of the teaching, dedication of the faculty, and individual attention given to our students by Retreat instructors. In this era of fast-paced psychiatry I am so grateful that I can send our students for such an important experience.”
The Brattleboro Retreat, founded in 1834, is a not-for-profit, regional specialty psychiatric hospital and addictions treatment center, providing a full range of diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation services for individuals of all ages and their families. Recognized as a national leader in the treatment mental illness and addiction, the Brattleboro Retreat offers a high quality, individualized, comprehensive continuum of care including inpatient, partial hospitalization, residential and outpatient treatment.