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Program profile · Texas

Psychiatry residency at Baylor College of Medicine

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

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 27, 2026.

Program
Menninger Department of Psychiatry General Psychiatry Residency
Sponsoring institution
Baylor College of Medicine
Location
Houston, 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
Sindhu A. Idicula, MD, who is the director of residency training and director of psychotherapy education.
Training sites
The program reports core affiliates including the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, the Harris Health System's Ben Taub Hospital, the Baylor Psychiatry clinic, Houston Methodist Hospital, The Menninger Clinic, and Texas Children's Hospital, plus community partners such as the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD.
Tracks and outreach
The program lists specialized tracks in clinician-educator, research, women's mental health, child and adolescent, interventional, and community psychiatry, and describes its Psychiatry Residency Outreach to the Public Sector (PROPS) service program, which it says started in 1985. It notes the Menninger department has more than 250 faculty.

shrinkiatry context

Baylor's Menninger Department program is a large, well-resourced academic psychiatry residency in the Texas Medical Center that spans a VA, a major county safety-net system, and prominent private hospitals including the historic Menninger Clinic, giving residents unusual breadth. It's in Houston.

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Sources

  1. Baylor College of Medicine, General Psychiatry Residency, Director's Message. https://www.bcm.edu/departments/psychiatry-and-behavioral-sciences/education/general-psychiatry-residency/directors-message
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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