Sam Houston Regional Education Consortium Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a newly established, community-based psychiatry residency sponsored by the Sam Houston Regional Education Consortium and housed academically within SHSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine, welcoming its inaugural class in 2026 in Conroe, Texas. The training model is explicitly workforce-focused, built to address psychiatric provider shortages through immersive rotations at Tri-County Behavioral Healthcare's outpatient and community behavioral health clinics (serving Walker, Montgomery, and Liberty counties) supplemented by hospital-based inpatient medicine and consult psychiatry at Huntsville Memorial Hospital. Research is not emphasized as a program pillar; instead, the stated priorities are evidence-based clinical practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, physician well-being, and long-term sustainability in community psychiatric care. Graduate outcomes are framed around community psychiatry, outpatient behavioral health, and hospital-based practice, with subspecialty fellowship mentioned only as one of several possible paths, indicating the program values clinicians drawn to underserved, safety-net behavioral health settings over research-driven academic tracks.