Residency Program

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Welcome to our General Psychiatry Residency Program. Our program strives to develop psychiatrists who are competent in both the art and science of medicine and psychiatry. We strive to do this in an environment in which the well being of the patient and the resident are both important.

Our Program has entered an exciting phase. We have recently welcomed a new chair of the department, Dr. Kathryn Kotrla. Texas A&M College of Medicine, led by Dr. Nancy Dickey, and Scott & White Memorial Hospital, led by Dr. Alfred Knight, have formed an even tighter alliance benefiting patient care, medical student and resident education and research. The field of Geriatric Psychiatry is well represented at Texas A&M by Dr. Christopher Colenda, Dean of College of Medicine. Dr. Colenda was honored with the highest award in the field of Geriatric Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association’s Jack Weinberg Memorial Award.

Our program has multiple training sites, including Scott & White Hospital and Clinic, the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Darnall Hospital in the military system and the Texas MHMR system. This enables our residents to be a part of many different healthcare delivery systems and see many different types of patients.

In addition to our already established residency programs in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry is an actively growing component of our department. Both Scott & White and the Central Texas Veterans Health Care system have psychiatrists with board certification in Geriatrics. Research ideas abound especially since we are affiliated with one of the VA facilities that cares for the chronically mentally ill. In addition to Schizophrenia and mood disorders, Alzheimer’s disease is one focus of the Neuropsychiatry Research Program.

Our main Temple campus is bursting with new building projects. Our faculty is a very diverse group of people, which provides our residents with a wide variety of perspectives on mental illness and mental health. Our residents are a tight-knit group who work well together. We have the safety and economic benefit of living in a smaller town but have "big city" life less than an hour away.
After graduation, our residents have left for many exciting and diverse careers. Our graduating residents have much success on the ABPN exams. We are very proud of them.