Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Education

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The Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Psychiatry Residency at Baylor College of Medicine is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education for four-year residency training in General Psychiatry, two-year fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and one-year fellowship training in Addiction PsychiatryGeriatric PsychiatryWomen's Mental Health and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. With respect to psychology training programs, Baylor College of Medicine offers a one-year APA-accredited Psychology Internship program, as well as a one-year APPIC-accredited postdoctoral Psychology Fellowship program. Additionally, Baylor College of Medicine offers a one-year Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowship.

The Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences commits to training eager residents and fellows in general and child psychiatry and psychologists. Besides the lectures and bookwork, trainees are educated by having the experience of working with real people who are seeking real help at Houston-area hospitals and the Baylor Psychiatry Clinic.

Trainees take rotations at affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center: Houston Methodist Hospital, Ben Taub Hospital, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Texas Children's Hospital.

Trainees also can choose an elective rotation in their third or fourth year at The Menninger Clinic, where patients receive a broad range of therapies that emphasize treatment methods utilizing psychopharmacological medications and psychotherapies. Trainees are supervised by senior staff members, throughout each affiliated area, who oversee their work.

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Undergraduate Medical Education

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The Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences provides Baylor College of Medicine medical students a wide range of learning opportunities to enhance knowledge and clinical skills to perform psychiatric evaluations, ​diagnoses, and evidence-based treatment strategies while improving rapport and communication skills. Our students first attend foundational sciences curriculum courses and then clinical curriculum courses. Students are able to choose sub-internship and elective courses as well.

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Training Verification

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All general adult residency training verifications should be submitted to Trista Stokes/Lindsay Trostle. There is a $75 charge for verifications for all trainees who have been out of the program for two years or longer. You may submit your verification request via mail, email or fax:

Trista Stokes/Lindsay Trostle
Menninger Department of Psychiatry
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza - BCM350
Houston, TX 77030

Email: psychiatry_residency@bcm.edu
Fax: (713) 798-1479

If you submit payment with your mailed-in request, the verification will be completed and returned in a timely fashion. Requests that are faxed or emailed will receive a request for payment; once payment is received, the verification will be completed and returned.