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Program profile · Texas

Psychiatry residency at Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas

Last verified July 27, 2026 · Checked against the program's official website

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 27, 2026.

Program
General Psychiatry Residency Program
Sponsoring institution
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas
Location
Beaumont, Texas
Program type
General (adult) psychiatry
Training length
Four years (PGY-1 to PGY-4)
Accreditation
ACGME-accredited. See the ACGME ADS finder for the program's current accreditation status and identifier.

Reported by the program

The program describes the following on its official website, reviewed on July 27, 2026.

Program director
Michael Gillespie, MD, a board-certified psychiatrist who the program says has been on the hospital's medical staff since 2016. Raheel Imtiaz Memon, MD, is the associate program director, and Johnal Worthington is the program coordinator.
Size and setting
The program reports that it's a four-year ACGME-accredited residency that generally admits five residents per year at Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas, which it describes as a 500-bed community hospital serving Jefferson County and seven surrounding counties, a Level IV trauma center, and the only inpatient behavioral-health facility in Southeast Texas.
Faculty and affiliation
The program reports faculty expertise across child and adolescent, addiction, forensic, consultation-liaison, geriatric, and emergency psychiatry, and notes that the hospital is a teaching facility and clinical affiliate for the Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

shrinkiatry context

Baptist's program is a community-hospital psychiatry residency anchoring behavioral-health training in the Beaumont and Golden Triangle region, notable for being the only inpatient psychiatric facility in Southeast Texas, so residents carry real regional responsibility. It's in Beaumont.

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Sources

  1. Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas, Psychiatry Residency Program. https://bhsetresidency.org/psychiatry-program/
  2. Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas, Psychiatry Residency Program, People. https://bhsetresidency.org/psychiatry-program/people/
  3. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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