Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Baylor College of Medicine Temple Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, university-affiliated four-year psychiatry program (five residents/year) rooted in a 640-bed Level I trauma teaching hospital in Temple, TX, drawing on a broad clinical footprint that includes VA campuses (Temple and Waco), a freestanding behavioral health hospital (Canyon Creek), and community mental health clinics in Temple and Killeen. The curriculum is heavily outpatient- and continuity-oriented by PGY-3, with structured exposure to consult-liaison, geriatric, addiction, child/adolescent, and community psychiatry, plus PGY-4 elective flexibility (ECT, TMS, private practice, palliative, cognitive testing) rather than a research-heavy or subspecialty-track structure. Research is resident-initiated and supported (writing/IRB assistance, conference travel funding) rather than a defining pillar, and the resident body—drawn substantially from osteopathic and Texas-based medical schools—suggests the program values well-rounded generalists comfortable across VA, safety-net, and private-clinic settings rather than pursuing a specific fellowship pipeline. The mission-driven, not-for-profit health system framing and emphasis on wellness, supervision continuity, and moonlighting access point toward a program oriented to producing broadly competent community and consultation psychiatrists.