Our Psychiatry Residency program combines clinical service and education to prepare new psychiatrists to manage a wide variety of patient populations

The Texas A&M College of Medicine - Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple Psychiatry Residency Program is a four-year program that is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

We accept five residents per year.

Como el mayor sistema sanitario sin ánimo de lucro de Texas y uno de los mayores de Estados Unidos, Baylor Scott & White atiende a 41 condados a través de 52 hospitales, más de 1,200 puntos de acceso, más de 7,100 médicos en activo, más de 52,000 miembros del equipo y el Plan de Salud Baylor Scott & White.

Plan de estudios

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Rotaciones


PGY-1

First 6 months 1 mes 1 mes 1 mes 1 mes 2 meses
  Inpatient Internal Medicine Outpatient Pediatrics Inpatient Psychiatry VA Outpatient Internal Medicine Inpatient Neurology
Second 6 months 5 meses 1 mes 5 semanas
  inpatient Psychiatry at CCBH VA Outpatient IMED Clinic Flotador nocturno

Lectures and supervision supplement the first year. Lectures are a half-day each week throughout the residency. Interns are matched with a faculty supervisor to meet with for general guidance throughout the residency. Additionally, each intern is assigned a medication supervisor with whom they meet regularly to discuss various aspects of pharmacotherapy and answer any questions that may arise on the inpatient unit. At the end of the first year, interns can begin seeing patients in the outpatient clinic.




PGY2

2 meses 1 mes 2 meses 3 meses 2 meses 1 mes 5-6 semanas 2 semanas
Psychiatric ED Consults 
Psiquiatría geriátrica 
Psiquiatría del Niño y del Adolescente
 Consult Liaison Psychiatry
Inpatient Psychiatry
Substance Use Disorders  Flotador nocturno   Community Psychiatry

Second-year residents rotate through various services to gain experience in different areas in the field of psychiatry. In the second year, residents can also begin seeing additional clinic patients to follow as outpatients. Clinic clientele includes both medication management patients and psychotherapy patients. Residents meet regularly with psychotherapy supervisors for guidance in their therapy training. Second-year residents have the opportunity for teaching activities, including medical student lectures and evaluations. Rotations and lectures become more intense during the second year, but most rotations allow ample time for self-guided study.




PGY3

12 meses
Outpatient clinic A variety of clinics, including Baylor Scott & White Mental Health Clinic, VA Mental Health Clinic, Killeen and Temple Community Clinic, and occasional half days on the ED consult service.

PGY3 residents are assigned their own office space, and call frequency continues to decrease. The majority of the third year is in the outpatient clinic from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Most days are at the Baylor Scott & White Mental Health Clinic, where PGY3 residents see patients in various encounters, including new evaluations, transfer of care appointments, medication management appointments, and psychotherapy sessions. One day out of the week, some residents spend the day seeing patients at the Temple VA Mental Health Clinic. Residents will also spend a half-day per week seeing patients at the community clinics in Temple and Killeen. Supervision for medication management and psychotherapy continues.




PGY-4

  9 meses 1 mes 2 meses
AM (½ day) Resident Selected Electives  Neuromodulation Elective VA Electives
PM (½ day) Outpatient Resident Clinic

In PGY4, half of the day is in the Baylor Scott & White Mental Health Clinic, where residents follow established outpatients for continuity of care. Three months of inpatient psychiatry, two months of VA electives, and seven months of other resident-chosen electives make up the other half of the day. The program offers several electives, but residents can also organize an elective specific to their area of interest. A few examples of electives include private practice, ECT, cognitive testing, intensive outpatient therapy, TMS, and palliative care. Fourth year provides ample opportunity for flexibility and exploring different resident interests in the field of psychiatry.

Didactics


In addition to hands-on clinical experience, each resident attends weekly seminars that enable the resident to build a solid foundation of knowledge and experience. Each PGY class has one half-day per week for lectures.

Seminars are considered protected time, during which residents are free of clinical or inpatient duties.

Each seminar series has a syllabus with weekly assigned readings. Most readings are provided from our resident library or journal articles, eliminating the costly burden of buying multiple textbooks. 

Other experience is provided through clinical case conferences, grand rounds, ethics meetings, journal clubs and consultation-liaison case conferences.

The tables below represent a summary of the seminars for each year of training. Each row represents a one-hour block of time for the year (or, in PGY1, for the six months spent on psychiatry). Only formal courses are shown in these diagrams. Case conferences and other teaching conferences are scheduled separately and are not shown below.


PGY1 Lectures

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Intro to Psychiatry ED Psychiatry Biopsychosocial
Formulation/
Note Writing
H&P's ECT Ethics / Professionalism ACT Intro to Therapy Forensic Psychiatry
Meditación Wellness Group DSM-5 Psychiatric Treatment
Patient Safety Group Supervision
Resident Wellness Activities



PGY-2 Lectures

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Child Adolescent Psychiatry Evidence
Based
Medicine
Coding Affirming Identities Personal
Finance
Existential Psychotherapy
Addiction Psychiatry C-L Treatment of Mental Disorders Psychological
Testing
CBT Teaching
Psychiatry
Patient Safety Group Supervision
Resident Wellness Activities



PGY3 Lectures

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Neurociencia
Psychopharmacology Couples and Family Therapy Book Club
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Tools and Techniques for Psychotherapy  Short Term Psychotherapy
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Geriatría
TMS  Sexual Functioning Self-Study



PGY4 Lectures

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Advanced Psychopharmacology Reproductive Psychiatry  Preparing for Early Career Challenges
Career Transitions Grief and Bereavement Book Club
Case Studies
Clinical Psychology Topics Self-Study

Conferences


Department of Psychiatry grand rounds

Grand Rounds is hosted by speakers that include guest lecturers, faculty members and fellow residents. The topics presented include clinical issues, research topics and projects, mental health policy issues, psychopharmacology and psychotherapy.




Ethics conference

The ethics conference is held once per month and includes all psychiatric residents and a faculty member. A wide variety of ethical issues and dilemmas psychiatrists encounter in practice are discussed in this seminar.




Club de diarios

Once per month, residents present a summary of one to three articles from a recent psychiatric publication. All residents will read the article(s) prior to discussing them as a group with a faculty mentor, with an emphasis on evaluating the article’s background, methodology, interpretation and significance of findings.




Advanced psychopharmacology seminar

Our PGY3 and PGY4 residents meet with a faculty member once each week to review various advanced pharmacology topics. Each week, a psychopharmacology article is reviewed with an emphasis on reviewing evidence-based guidelines and practices.




Outpatient case conference

Once per month, PGY3 and PGY4 residents present a patient to fellow residents, a therapist and a psychiatrist. At the presentation, the patient’s history is presented before a faculty member interviews the patient. After the interview, the residents, therapist and attending physician discuss the case with special emphasis on therapy methods and techniques, psychodynamic themes, intra-psychic conflicts and ego defense mechanisms. These conferences have traditionally been a resident favorite.




Consultation-Liaison case conference

Each month, the residents and faculty meet to discuss a case from the consultation and liaison service. At each conference, the resident assigned to the consultation-liaison service presents an unusual or interesting case. The topics covered include unusual presentations of psychiatric conditions, end-of-life issues, organic brain syndromes, somatoform disorders and pain management.




Board review

Residents meet weekly for faculty-led board review. The class emphasizes material that is not only important for the written boards and the in-training exam (PRITE), but also reviews clinical information involving patient care.




Practice improvement meeting

This is a quarterly conference that is attended by all faculty and residents within the department to discuss a difficult case or outcome from a risk management perspective.

horario de llamadas


Call responsibilities start during the first six months of the first year in which new residents have four "buddy" calls. During buddy calls, PGY1 residents are paired with a designated PGY2 or PGY3 resident. The trainers are responsible for educating interns on the various aspects of being on-call. This training provides a unique opportunity to work one-on-one with upper-level residents and exposes PGY1 residents to different ideas and styles while getting to know upper-level residents better. Interns are not cleared to start taking overnight calls until the resident and program director are confident that the resident possesses the skills necessary to succeed.




Call break down

Weekend call shifts and night float weeks make up call obligations.

While on-call, residents benefit from the support of attending psychiatry staff. Residents are never expected to make decisions about patient care without faculty support and supervision.




Weekend call

The weekend call shifts are divided between the available residents in the pool. Forty-eight hours are covered on the weekend, which is split up into four shifts. The weekend call shifts are split evenly between all pool residents, including PGY1 (starting in January), PGY2, and PGY3 (up until December). Some residents elect to "stack" their call responsibilities to form a 24-hour shift and therefore have fewer weekends on call.

Day call will consist of rounding on our inpatient unit at Canyon Creek Behavioral Health.

Night call will cover consults from the Baylor Scott and White Emergency Department from home via telepsychiatry. They will also cover floor calls from our unit at Canyon Creek Behavioral Health.

  PGY1 PGY2 PGY3 PGY4
    January-June July-December July-December July-June
Día Saturday or Sunday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 5 shifts 5 shifts 5 shifts None
Night Saturday or Sunday 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. 5 shifts 5 shifts 5 shifts None



Night float (Weeknight call)

A night float resident covers night call shifts to avoid 24-hour call shifts during the weekdays. The PGY1 residents only take night float weeks in January-June and PGY2 residents in July-December.

Night call will cover consults from the Baylor Scott and White Emergency Department from home via telepsychiatry. They will also cover floor calls from our unit at Canyon Creek Behavioral Health.


  PGY1 PGY2  
  January-June July-December No night float after second half of PGY2 year (January)
Saturday or Sunday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 5 semanas 5-6 semanas None

Moonlighting


Moonlighting is a way residents at BSW can supplement experience and income. Beginning in PGY3, residents in good standing may moonlight. Moonlighting requires written pre-approval from the program director.

Opportunities to moonlight in Psychiatry are readily available throughout Central Texas. One of the opportunities residents most frequently take advantage of is the outpatient clinic moonlighting at the BSW Mental Health Clinic. This moonlighting occurs before or after regular clinic hours, and additional malpractice insurance is not required (your BSW malpractice insurance is acceptable).Most current residents who choose to moonlight do so at Cedar Crest Hospital, telepsychiatry for East Texas Behavioral Health Network, Ascension Providence DePaul Center, and Austin State Hospital.

Residents have also been able to sign individual contracts for other moonlighting opportunities, including telepsychiatry consulting for county jails and telepsychiatry inpatient work on a geriatric unit.

Investigación


Psychiatry research at Baylor Scott & White Health is set up to provide residents with as much research experience as desired. Residents can choose to participate in existing projects or enlist a creative project team to help start a research project of their own. The program provides medical writing editors, assistance in submitting Texas A&M grant applications to the institutional review board and training in ethical research practices to help residents succeed in their research endeavors.

Baylor Scott & White has both clinical and basic sciences research on the main campus in Temple and at the VA campuses in Temple and Waco. The Graduate Medical Education office provides up to $1,500 per poster or paper presentation abstract that gets accepted to a scientific meeting to cover expenses such as airfare, registration, hotel expenses and meals.

Cómo aplicar

We use the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) to electronically accept residency applications, letters of recommendations, dean’s letters, transcripts and other credentials directly from your medical school.

Visit ERAS® to apply now



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Profesorado y residentes

Our dedicated faculty, with diverse expertise and a passion for teaching, offers invaluable mentorship and our talented residents bring enthusiasm and fresh perspectives to patient care. Together, they create a supportive community committed to excellence in medical education and compassionate care.

Join us in shaping the future of healthcare! 

Train at one of U.S. News & World Report's top hospitals in Texas

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple is a 640-bed teaching and research hospital with a Level I trauma center.

Working at Baylor Scott & White Health

Estipendio y prestaciones

Además de estipendios competitivos, ofrecemos a nuestros residentes un menú completo de beneficios para empleados. Ayudamos a compensar el coste de muchas de estas prestaciones; otras son opciones que puede elegir pagar usted mismo.

Recursos de Bienestar

Este momento de su carrera profesional puede ser extremadamente difícil. Como estudiante de posgrado en medicina de Baylor Scott & White, tiene a su disposición una gran variedad de recursos que le permitirán sacar el máximo partido a su experiencia educativa.

Life in Temple

Temple uniquely offers a combination of access to big-city conveniences while maintaining a small-town atmosphere.

Contáctanos

Dorothy Winkler
Program Administrator

Phone: 254.724.1768
Fax: 254.724.1747
Email: Dorothy.Winkler@BSWHealth.org

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Templo
2401 S. 31st St.
Templo, tx 76508


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