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Program profile · Texas

Psychiatry residency at Texas Tech El Paso (Paul L. Foster School 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
Adult Psychiatry Residency Program
Sponsoring institution
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (Paul L. Foster School of Medicine)
Location
El Paso, 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
Silvina Tonarelli, MD, who signs the program's welcome message.
Setting and sites
The program describes itself as an ACGME-fully-accredited, community-based general psychiatry residency whose residents rotate at the major hospitals in El Paso, in one of the largest United States and Mexico border regions, in collaboration with the El Paso Del Norte Health Foundation and the University of Texas at El Paso.
Distinctive rotation
The program reports that residents rotate at the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, which it describes as the only Pueblo in Texas and one of three federally recognized Native American tribes in the state, through its behavioral-health division, alongside a didactic core in neurology, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, child, geriatric, and addiction psychiatry.

shrinkiatry context

Texas Tech El Paso's Paul L. Foster program is a border-region psychiatry residency with an unusually cross-cultural and binational patient population, including a federally recognized tribal community, which few programs can match. It's in El Paso, in far West Texas. A separate Texas Tech El Paso program runs at the Transmountain campus.

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Sources

  1. Texas Tech Health El Paso, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Adult Psychiatry Residency Program. https://ttuhscep.edu/som/psychiatry/training/alberta/adult-psychiatry-residency-program/default.aspx
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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