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 Psychotherapy Scholars Track and a Research Track for residents who seek in-depth experience in psychotherapy or 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, including weekly neuropsychology experience
- 6 blocks: Adult inpatient psychiatry
- 1 block: Child and adolescent inpatient psychiatry
- Formal psychiatry didactics: 4 hours per week
- 12 months (2 days per week): Adult outpatient psychiatry at Ascension Seton Mind Institute
- 12 months (1 day per week): Adult outpatient psychiatry at Austin Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic
- 12 months (1/2 day per week): Child and adolescent outpatient psychiatry
- 12 months (1/2 day per week): Geriatric outpatient psychiatry
- 12 months (1/2 day per week): Psychotherapy
- Didactics and psychotherapy supervision: 1 day per week
- 3 months: Adult inpatient psychiatry
- 1 month: Psychopharmacology consultation
- 3 months: Consultation-liaison psychiatry
- 2 months: Emergency psychiatry
- 1 month: Electroconvulsive therapy
- 1 month: Forensic psychiatry
- 1 month: Chemical dependency
- 12 months (1/2 day per week): Adult outpatient psychiatry at Ascension Seton Mind Institute
- 12 months (1/2 day per week): Psychotherapy
- Didactics: 1/2 day per week
- 7 months (3 1/2 days per week): Electives with area of clinical focus
- For example: PTSD with Veterans Affairs, advanced psychotherapy, student mental health, adolescent mental health, collaborative care, consultation-liaison, substance abuse, advocacy and public psychiatry, teaching and education, research
- Currently the program offers more than 40 elective experiences.
- 3 months (1 day per week): Public psychiatry
- 12 months (1/2 day per week): Adult outpatient psychiatry at Ascension Seton Mind Institute
- 12 months (1/2 day per week): Psychotherapy
- Didactics: 1/2 day per week