University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a five-year combined Internal Medicine-Psychiatry residency at a major academic medical center, structured as 30 months each of medicine and psychiatry with a dedicated med-psych continuity clinic staffed by dual-trained faculty. Clinical training spans a genuinely broad system-of-systems: Parkland (safety-net county hospital), the Dallas VA, Clements University Hospital (tertiary/quaternary subspecialty care), Children's Health, and Metrocare community psychiatry, exposing residents to acute, chronic, underserved, and specialty populations across the care continuum. The curriculum builds toward outpatient integration - psychotherapy training, medication management, and integrated care clinics in PGY-4 - reflecting an identity centered on producing dual-boarded physicians equipped for combined outpatient practice, collaborative/integrated behavioral health models, or subspecialty fellowship. Current resident career interests (integrated behavioral health, collaborative care, health disparities, geriatrics, rural/Native American health) indicate the program values applicants oriented toward whole-person, systems-based care rather than narrow subspecialization alone.