The Psychiatry Residency integrates a wide variety of clinical training with exposure to different approaches to help residents understand and treat individuals experiencing mental illness. Note that the curriculum is unique compared to other psychiatry residencies in that the outpatient experience begins in the PGY-2 year, leading to more long-term and in-depth outpatient practice experiences.
The program also offers a research track for residents who seek in-depth experience in research.
Curriculum Components
13 blocks of 4 weeks:
- 1 block: Pediatrics inpatient
- 1 block: Internal medicine inpatient
- 1 block: Family medicine
- 1 block: Emergency medicine
- 2 blocks: Inpatient neurology
- 6 blocks: Adult inpatient psychiatry
- 1 block: Child and adolescent inpatient psychiatry
- Formal psychiatry didactics: 4 hours per week
- General adult outpatient psychiatry
- Child and adolescent outpatient psychiatry
- Geriatric outpatient psychiatry
- Community outpatient psychiatry
- Psychotherapy
- Didactics and psychotherapy supervision: 1 day per week
- Adult inpatient psychiatry
- Psychopharmacology consultation
- Consultation-liaison psychiatry
- Emergency psychiatry
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- Forensic psychiatry
- Chemical dependency
- General adult outpatient psychiatry continuity clinic
- Psychotherapy
- Didactics: 1/2 day per week
The program offers 30 electives including:
- UT Health Austin’s subspecialty programs:
- Bipolar disorders center
- Women’s reproductive mental health
- Continuity general adult outpatient psychiatry and psychotherapy
- Medical student teaching
- Advanced rotations in consultation-liaison, emergency, inpatient and outpatient psychiatry
- Mobile outreach
- UT Austin counseling and mental health center
- Private practice
- Cognitive processing therapy
- KIND clinic
- HIV psychiatry
Didactics take place 1/2 day per week.
Annual Lecture Series & Grand Rounds
View the 2024-2025 Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Lecture Series schedule.