Dear Prospective Resident, 

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about our Psychiatry Residency Program! We are excited to showcase how our program provides comprehensive training within a supportive, diverse, and engaging community, equipping you to become an outstanding psychiatrist prepared to meet the increasing mental health needs across Texas and the nation. 

Our program has diverse clinical opportunities, world-class research, and access to high-quality, robust psychotherapy training. Working within various care systems (including public safety net, private, veterans' and children's hospitals, and public, private, forensic, homeless, and community-based clinics), we are exposed to patients from a wide array of backgrounds with a broad range of psychiatric and medical conditions. We become familiar with a full breadth of medications, psychotherapy modalities, and cutting-edge interventional treatments, preparing us for independent clinical practice and desirable fellowship positions.  

We train in Dallas, which is known for its vibrant culture and friendliness. The Dallas-Fort Worth metro area is the largest in Texas, the fourth-largest in the US, and home to over 7.5 million people, with more moving here every day. Dallas offers something for everyone—whether a fast-paced city life, a laidback suburban lifestyle, or something in between, Dallas has a place for you! 

We also pride ourselves on the flexibility to customize our training. Across our practice settings, residents may choose from over 60 electives in their third and fourth postgraduate years. Additionally, we offer areas of concentration in education; global and cultural psychiatry; interventional psychiatry; mental health, policy, and law; psychotherapy; transitional age youth; and women’s mental health, allowing our residents unique clinical and scholarly experiences in their particular area of interest. Mentorship from residents and faculty is highly valued and thoroughly incorporated within the curriculum and through various community initiatives. We are committed to helping you develop foundational skills to become a great psychiatrist, as well as opportunities to gain unique skills to set you apart as you start your career. 

The journey to becoming a psychiatrist is both a rewarding privilege and a challenging responsibility. As such, our program is committed to a culture of support. Our motto is “never worry alone,” and our leaders, attendings, and residents exemplify it through personal and intentional connection. As one of the largest psychiatry residencies in the US, our coalition of diverse and talented faculty and residents connect with and support one another between and across classes and ranks, as evidenced by regular feedback meetings with leadership built into didactics time and our very active Psychiatry Residents Organization. 

Additionally, we are committed to a culture of respect for individuality and diversity. Our patients come from many walks of life, as do our residents. We seek and celebrate opportunities to learn from one another and grow in understanding of how issues of diversity (including, but not limited to, culture, race, gender identity, sexuality, socioeconomic status, and religion) shape our patients and our psychiatric practice.

We are proud to be UT Southwestern Psychiatry Residents. We want to meet you and share much more about what makes our program so special and to learn about you during the application process. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to hear more about our program or personal experiences. We wish you all the best!

Donald Egan, M.D., M.P.H.

Lindsay Szauter, M.D., M.P.H.

Caila Lavine. M.D.