University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine-TGH Behavioral Health Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a newly established psychiatry residency at Tampa General Behavioral Health Hospital, Florida's first freestanding academic medical center-affiliated behavioral health hospital, positioning it as a hospital-centered, clinically intensive training environment rather than a traditional university department. The curriculum moves from broad medicine/neurology foundations in PGY-1 through expanding inpatient, addiction, geriatric, and child exposure in PGY-2, toward outpatient longitudinal care in PGY-3 and PGY-4 rotations emphasizing forensics, ECT, junior-attending roles, and "Business of Medicine," reflecting an orientation toward independent clinical practice readiness rather than a research pipeline. While the broader USF Health department maintains active neuroscience and molecular psychiatry laboratories, the residency itself is explicitly framed around clinical training across the full continuum of care rather than scholarly output. As an inaugural program, it foregrounds close faculty-resident collaboration and a stated intent to shape the program's culture through resident input, valuing adaptable trainees willing to help build institutional identity from the ground up.