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Program profile · Texas

Psychiatry residency at UT Austin Dell Medical School

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
University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
Location
Austin, 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
Pamela Lopez, MD, who writes that she rejoined the Dell Med Department of Psychiatry in June 2024 to lead the general psychiatry residency.
History
The program reports that it started as a community psychiatry program in the 1950s at Austin State Hospital, transitioned to Ascension Health in the 1990s, and became a department within Dell Medical School in the school's inaugural year, growing since.
Training sites
Resident accounts on the program's site describe training across the Ascension Seton system, including Dell Seton Medical Center, a dedicated inpatient psychiatric and safety-net hospital with acute substance detoxification, the Austin outpatient clinic of VA Central Texas, and the Texas Child Study Center, plus electroconvulsive therapy and child and adolescent experiences.

shrinkiatry context

Dell Med's program is a rapidly growing academic psychiatry residency that leverages the research resources of the University of Texas at Austin while training in a fast-growing city. Its roots in a state hospital community program give it a public-psychiatry backbone. It's in Austin, in Central Texas.

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Sources

  1. UT Austin Dell Medical School, Psychiatry Residency, Director's Welcome. https://dellmed.utexas.edu/education/academics/graduate-medical-education/psychiatry-residency/directors-welcome
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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