He received his B.A. (1973) from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), double majoring in psychology and philosophy. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, he continued at CWRU for his medical studies, receiving his M.D. in 1977. Dr. Levick did a medical internship and psychiatric residency at Yale University School of Medicine and its affiliated clinical institutions, and then a clinical fellowship at Yale Psychiatric Institute. He went on to do a research fellowship in biological psychiatry at New York University Medical center, during which time he also served, part-time, as an attending psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital.