Education and Training
The Bryan-College Station campus serves as the headquarters for the Texas A&M University College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; and the Texas A&M Psychiatry Residency Program. Clinical care, education and research are conducted in the various locations within the Texas A&M Health domain. The psychiatry program director and program coordinator are based at the headquarters site.
The department has an outpatient psychiatry clinic based in Bryan, Texas, to provide the residents exposure in treating a diverse population with a focus on the rural and underserved patients. The Psychiatry Clinic sees patients ranging in age from childhood to the geriatric years. Core faculty of the department provide clinical care at this site and will supervise the resident outpatient experience in the PGY-3 year. The department's Telebehavioral Care provides mental health services to underserved individuals at rural clinics throughout the Brazos Valley as well as remote clinics located in Leon County (Centerville), Madison County (Madisonville), Washington County (Brenham) and Grimes County (Navasota).
Clinical training also takes place at the College's Family Care Clinic in Bryan. Psychiatry residents rotate through this clinic during the PGY-1 year as part of the required primary care experience. This clinic serves the Bryan/College Station, TX area as well as the surrounding counties in the Brazos Valley. The Family Care Clinic sees patients of all ages for a variety of issues ranging from colds and fractures to preventive primary care.
- Texas A&M Family Primary Care – College Station, TX
- Outpatient medicine
- Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center - Killeen, TX
- Inpatient Psychiatry
- Cypress Creek Hospital - Houston, TX
- Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry
- ECT training
- Olin E. Teague Veterans Affair Medical Center – Temple
- Neurology
- Consult/ Liaison
- Addiction and substance abuse
- Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affair Medical Center – Waco
- Inpatient Psychiatry
- Residential Care Treatment
- CHI St. Joseph Regional Health - Bryan, TX
- Inpatient medicine
- MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley – Bryan, TX
- Outpatient psychiatry
- Texas A&M Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Clinic – Bryan, TX
- Outpatient psychiatry
Additional info about Cypress Creek Hospital:
“Cypress Creek Hospital is a fully-accredited, 128-bed acute care psychiatric facility located in Houston, Texas. The hospital offers a broad range of inpatient, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient services (adult therapy program, electroconvulsive therapy, and substance abuse intensive outpatient program) for adolescents (ages 12 – 17) and adults suffering from mental illness or substance abuse.
The Texas A&M Psychiatry Residency Program recently began a partnership with Cypress Creek Hospital to provide an additional training site for the residency program. Residents will complete a 2-month rotation in the inpatient unit for their Geriatric Psychiatry experience.”
CLINICAL CURRICULUM
Texas A&M strives to prepare residents to become expert clinicians and agents of change in the healthcare system. The department’s educational experience for the residents includes clinical rotations, didactics, faculty mentorship and research opportunities. Residents are exposed to a diverse population at a wide array of training facilities. They also gain experience in interventional psychiatry, spending two months learning ECT during their geriatrics rotation.
DIDACTIC CURRICULUM
Didactics are an integral part of resident education. They are a shared responsibility between the Texas A&M Psychiatry core faculty and the faculty at the partnering units. This shared experience enriches the educational involvement of the resident and provides exposure to a diversity of pathologies, therapies, and treatment modalities. The curriculum is also designed to prepare residents for a variety of leadership roles, including those of clinician, educator, and scholar.
Core didactics are held every Thursday morning from 8 AM to 1 PM. All residents are excused from clinical duties during this time. Texas A&M and its partners also recognize the importance of professional development. Time is therefore allocated for learning through independent reading and research.
In addition, PGY-2 residents meet with faculty for an hour every third Wednesday of the month to discuss patient cases and relevant scholarly articles.
Post Graduate Clinical Social Work Fellowship
The Social Work Post Graduate Program provides a 1 - 2-year post-masters graduate training with extensive clinical experience, supervision, and educational opportunities in clinical social work while working towards independent licensure.
