Psychiatry Residency Electives
Starting in the second post-graduate year of the Psychiatry Residency Program, you will have the opportunity to start focusing your training by selecting appropriate electives and/or participating in special programs in psychoanalytic psychotherapy or primary care.
Areas of concentration available as electives include:
Addiction Psychiatry
- VA Addiction Methadone Clinic
- VA Addictions Motivational Interviewing/Motivational Enhancement Therapy
- VA Addiction Outpatient Clinic
- VA Mental Health Pain Clinic
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Autism Center
- Children's Medical Center Inpatient Psychiatry
- Children's Medical Center Outpatient Clinic
- Family Studies Center
- Garland ISD-based Clinic: Children and Adolescents
- Intensive Treatment of Children with Severe Behavioral and Emotional Problems
Community Psychiatry
- Behavioral and Psychiatric Services (BPS): Children and/or Adults
- Centro de Mi Salud
- Community Psychiatry, Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Developmental Disabilities Psychiatric Services: Children and/or Adults
- Mental Health Access Clinic and Integrated Care, VA Medical Center
- Mental Health Copper Team Outpatient Clinic, VA Medical Center
- Outpatient Clinic, VA Medical Center
Education and Teaching
- Education Track Teaching Elective on Parkland Consults
- Senior Education Elective, Parkland Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic
- Teaching Elective, Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Forensic Psychiatry
- Forensic Examinations, Juvenile Detention Center or Adult Jail
- Forensic Psychiatry at Terrell State Hospital
Geriatric Psychiatry
- Geriatric Neuropsychiatry Clinic, Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Neuropsychology Consult Clinic, VA Medical Center
Psychosomatic Psychiatry
- Consult Liaison Psychiatry, Parkland Memorial Hospital
- Consult Liaison Psychiatry, UT Southwestern University Hospital
Psychotherapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eating Disorder Family Therapy and Research
- Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
- Family Studies Center
- Medical Psychotherapy – Parkland Memorial Hospital
- Psychotherapy at the Faculty Practice (Psychiatry Clinic) – Affective Disorders, Anxiety, and Trauma
- Psychotherapy at the Parkland Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic – Personality Disorders
- Psychotherapy at the UT Southwestern Psychiatry Clinic – Medical Management Clinic
- Treatment-Resistant Psychosis, Terrell State Hospital
Reading Elective at UTSW-NC5 or VA Medical Center
Readings and Research of Philosophy in Psychiatry
Research
- Biomarkers in Psychosis and Biotypes
- Eating Disorder Family Therapy and Research
- Community Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Psychoendocrinology Research
- Psychosocial Research and Depression Clinic
Sleep Medicine
Toxicology
University Mental Health
- University of North Texas (UNT) Student Health and Wellness Center
- University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Health Services