General Psychiatry Residency Program

The UT Southwestern Department of Psychiatry strives to graduate our residents at the cutting edge of all aspects of psychiatry and produce the best possible scholarship in all areas of medicine, training outstanding evidence-oriented clinicians and providing excellent clinical care to patients.

Our residency program offers a strong didactic and clinical/experiential base for training. Faculty and residents work together, providing a balance between clinical service and education. We also have a patient base that is diverse in every way: ethnoculturally, socioeconomically, and by clinical service (private, public sector, VA, community, etc.). This variety ensures that our residents will be able to practice psychiatry anywhere with anyone.

Diverse Settings

UT Southwestern’s residents encounter a wide variety of patient populations and systems of psychiatric care. Our affiliate institutions include:

• Parkland Health and Hospital System, one of the nation’s premier county hospitals.
• UT Southwestern University Hospital – Zale-Lipshy, a private university.
• The Dallas VA Medical Center, one of the VA’s academic flagship centers.
• Children's Medical Center, a private tertiary care pediatric hospital.
• Two university student health centers.
• NorthSTAR and Metrocare Services, an innovative public-private community psychiatry system.

The program involves every resident in each setting in a coherent plan balancing patient care and education. Diversity of settings allows the resident to care for the widest possible range of patients by diagnosis, by ethnic background, by socioeconomic status, and by locality. 

We also constantly look for ways to support our residents in the belief that patient care is best provided by psychiatrists who have balanced and satisfying lives. The residency offers a process group (‘T-Group’), an important source of peer support that is led by experienced group therapists.

Psychiatry Residents Organization (PRO)

UT Southwestern's residents are quite active in campus life and in the community. The Psychiatry Residents Organization (PRO) sponsors programs that enhance residents' experience at UT Southwestern, including professional and academic support, social activities, and open discussions, and facilitates effective communication between residents and administrators. Learn more about PRO.