texas psych residencies

[baller99]

so i've been hearing a lot about these texas residencies, and was wondering if anybody knew how good these programs were (happiness, fellowships, especially child psych )?
i've heard that utsw, utsa, and baylor are pretty solid schools.
i've heard good about uth (students aren't stressed) and bad (heavily underfunded, ppl extremely stressed).
the others seem like okay.

also, how's the mentoring at these schools (uth particularly) for med students? are the residents/program directors giving med students good info on where to go?

tks for the help!!

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[baller99]

geez i thought at least a few ppl might know. does anyone know where i could find this info? perhaps by emailing the residents themselves (but that seems a little weird).

 

[TexasPhysician]

so i've been hearing a lot about these texas residencies, and was wondering if anybody knew how good these programs were (happiness, fellowships, especially child psych )?
i've heard that utsw, utsa, and baylor are pretty solid schools.
i've heard good about uth (students aren't stressed) and bad (heavily underfunded, ppl extremely stressed).
the others seem like okay.

also, how's the mentoring at these schools (uth particularly) for med students? are the residents/program directors giving med students good info on where to go?

tks for the help!!

The question on mentoring is hard to answer. If you are a med student at one school, you won't know anything about the mentoring at other schools. Picking a residency is so subjective anyway that I haven't felt like any of the advise I've been given on the inteview trail (about other programs) is useful at all. You get out of med school rotations what you put into them. I can't see how any TX med school could do you wrong, and psychiatry isn't competitive. Do well at any TX med school and you could end up wherever you want to be.

The residencies again are highly subjective. From my interviewing experience this year, I can't think of a single TX program that is in jeopardy of losing accreditation in the near future. They are stable programs that each offer different opportunities. From the programs you mentioned, I would much rather end up at UT-Houston than Baylor, but that is my opinion. Someone else may be ranking them much differently.

 

[mommy0217]

I dont know much about medical schools in general.. I just decieded for sure that Im going to med school.. I have really wanted to but I didnt want to get loans but I know now that Im just going to have to.. but anyways.. my wonderful boyfriends stepdad used to coach football at UT and Im praying that we will be together then or at least on good enough terms where I could get his Stepdad could write me a recommendation! I love the longhorns and I wanna stay in Texas, I have two kids with my ex and I dont want to move to far away

 

[TexasPhysician]

I dont know much about medical schools in general.. I just decieded for sure that Im going to med school.. I have really wanted to but I didnt want to get loans but I know now that Im just going to have to.. but anyways.. my wonderful boyfriends stepdad used to coach football at UT and Im praying that we will be together then or at least on good enough terms where I could get his Stepdad could write me a recommendation! I love the longhorns and I wanna stay in Texas, I have two kids with my ex and I dont want to move to far away

While you are free to ask anyone for a recommendation, I don't think a coach would be beneficial unless you have extensive experience working with this person. UT-Austin has no medical school and isn't affiliated directly with any medical school. The UT system has medical schools obviously, but the connection to UT-Austin is extremely loose at best.

 

[promisabel]

Go with your gut on this. I did not. UTSW is an amazing program, but if you are a kind and sweet person.... careful. It is so amazing, but not a good program for those who are not cut throat.

 

[cricketpsych]

Would u say the same about there psych residency, promisabel?

 

[lupinibeanie]

If you could promisabel, please elaborate on UTSW with regards to the psych residency

what makes you say they are cut-throat? and is it first or second hand info?

thanks!

 

[acuriousstudent]

I dont know much about medical schools in general.. I just decieded for sure that Im going to med school.. I have really wanted to but I didnt want to get loans but I know now that Im just going to have to.. but anyways.. my wonderful boyfriends stepdad used to coach football at UT and Im praying that we will be together then or at least on good enough terms where I could get his Stepdad could write me a recommendation! I love the longhorns and I wanna stay in Texas, I have two kids with my ex and I dont want to move to far away

Being a great mother is a harder job than being a great doctor, and I hope that you are enjoying it!!

One aspect of being a doctor is being carefully obsessional, and it attracts a fairly homogeneous group of really-attentive people. I say this because your email has lots of misspellings and a misunderstanding of the admissions process (a letter from a former coach would be meaningless unless you worked with him directly, and even then pretty meaningless unless that coach had become a professor since leaving UT). If I were you (and, come to think of it, you didn't ask for my opinion, so feel free to just move forward and toss this to one side), I'd think carefully about your career decision since there are lots of ways to be helpful, scientific, medical, etc, without going to medical school.

Anyway, good luck with whatever it is that you do!

 

[acuriousstudent]

Go with your gut on this. I did not. UTSW is an amazing program, but if you are a kind and sweet person.... careful. It is so amazing, but not a good program for those who are not cut throat.

This does seem like an odd combination of attributes.

 

[trophyhusband]

If you could promisabel, please elaborate on UTSW with regards to the psych residency

what makes you say they are cut-throat? and is it first or second hand info?

thanks!

Lupi and Cricket,

My wife had heard this too in regard to UTSW but it only really applies to the Med School. The psych residency does not have the same issues with cut-throatness (nice made up word, eh?) as the Medical School. She has people she trusts within the program and they assure her it's not a huge issue (other than the usual competiveness inherent in any residency). We will be ranking them highly.

Hope this helps.

 

[lupinibeanie]

Lupi and Cricket,

My wife had heard this too in regard to UTSW but it only really applies to the Med School. The psych residency does not have the same issues with cut-throatness (nice made up word, eh?) as the Medical School. She has people she trusts within the program and they assure her it's not a huge issue (other than the usual competiveness inherent in any residency). We will be ranking them highly.

Hope this helps.

thanks so much trophyhusband! I didn't get to meet too many residents at UTSW but the ones I did meet seemed genuinely content with the program (I hope)

Things are different in the residency world, so I agree that a medical school at the same location of a great program may still be "cut-throaty" (new adjective) while the residency is not 🙂

 

[TexasPhysician]

Lupi and Cricket,

My wife had heard this too in regard to UTSW but it only really applies to the Med School. The psych residency does not have the same issues with cut-throatness (nice made up word, eh?) as the Medical School. She has people she trusts within the program and they assure her it's not a huge issue (other than the usual competiveness inherent in any residency). We will be ranking them highly.

Hope this helps.

Agree.

The med school and residencies are completely different. UTSW psych residents seemed very nice and polite to me.

 

[acuriousstudent]

Lupi and Cricket,

My wife had heard this too in regard to UTSW but it only really applies to the Med School. The psych residency does not have the same issues with cut-throatness (nice made up word, eh?) as the Medical School. She has people she trusts within the program and they assure her it's not a huge issue (other than the usual competiveness inherent in any residency). We will be ranking them highly.

Hope this helps.

I don't know what to make of the "competitiveness" issue. I interviewed at some of the places that are deemed "most competitive," but I really didn't see anxious striving or negativity at these places; the residents seemed pretty happy (especially taking into consideration that they were residents).

 

[trophyhusband]

I don't know what to make of the "competitiveness" issue. I interviewed at some of the places that are deemed "most competitive," but I really didn't see anxious striving or negativity at these places; the residents seemed pretty happy (especially taking into consideration that they were residents).

I think my wife would agree that UTSW fits the description you just provided.

 

[psychotrope]

Agree.

The med school and residencies are completely different. UTSW psych residents seemed very nice and polite to me.

going a little off topic here but...........in general I think candidates(and hell Im one) place too much emphasis on the degree of camraderie/noncompetitiveness/whatever the residents have.

Some of them are 4th years and will be gone when we show up. Some of them are 3rd years and will be there for half a year when we are doing inpatient psych and we may see them here and there for once a month for a few months.....bfd.

The reality is wherever we end up we will interact mostly with people who are also about to match into the program. And wtf knows who that will be.

I have programs Im thinking of ranking at the top, and programs that Im thinking of ranking at the bottom, but Im not going to play psychic and try to guess which of those programs have interns and lower residents I will feel best about drinking with on a friday night or going to college football games on a saturday afternoon with....sheeesh

 

[daru1]

The reality is wherever we end up we will interact mostly with people who are also about to match into the program. And wtf knows who that will be.

Very true, however there is a sense of we've-all-been-through-the-torture that either comes through in a sense of comraderie (which is more noticible the more you go into the year), or a sense of cut-through-I'm-going-to-step-on-you. You can pick up on this if your interview day includes interaction with people from multiple classes.