Tulane University Program

Program Identity & Fit

Tulane's Med/Psych program is one of the earliest combined Internal Medicine/Psychiatry programs in the country, structured as a five-year track split evenly between the two disciplines with continuity Med/Psych clinics embedded in both academic and community-based primary care settings. Training spans a wide range of New Orleans clinical sites—University Medical Center, the Southeast Louisiana VA, Depaul Community Health Center (an FQHC), and an inpatient med/psych unit at Ochsner St. Charles Parish Hospital—giving residents exposure to integrated inpatient, consult-liaison, and outpatient models of care rather than siloed rotations. The program explicitly frames itself around the integrated care movement, expecting residents to function as leaders, educators, scholars, and advocates from day one, with graduates going into combined hospitalist work, consult-liaison psychiatry, primary care Med/Psych, psychotherapy-focused practice, academic roles, or further subspecialty fellowship. It values self-starters with a defined vision for a career at the intersection of medicine and psychiatry rather than applicants using the pathway as a stepping stone to a single specialty.