Baton Rouge Psychiatry Residency

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Welcome to LSU School of Medicine

Psychiatry Residency Program in Baton Rouge

Virtual Open House for Resident Recruitment 2026 
August 26 and September 2
7PM CST

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Greetings from Baton Rouge, and welcome to the LSU School of Medicine Baton Rouge Psychiatry Residency Program website! Through our outstanding facilities and training opportunities, our dynamic faculty, and our commitment to resident education, we hope to continue to attract the best and brightest to train here and be a part of this exciting program.

When looking at our program, the following aspects are key to understanding who we are:

  • Our Lady of the Lake hospital, our major participating site, has more than 900 licensed beds with state of the art clinical services.
  • The psychiatric inpatient facilities include two adult acute units, a child and adolescent unit, and a geriatrics unit with about 69 licensed beds.
  • We have a rich, interdisciplinary learning environment with 5 other LSU and OLOL residency Baton Rouge based programs, and residents from a number of other specialties who rotate in Baton Rouge, psychology graduate students, and other healthcare students.
  • Our faculty has a rich history of experience in teaching, clinical work, and research.
  • All experiences throughout the residency will weigh educational value in their construction in addition to providing clinical experience.
  • We value psychotherapy in psychiatric residency education and commit the resources necessary to produce competent therapists. We also have access and training in ECT, TMS, and esketamine use. 
  • Our new child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship program is operating and a Consultation Liaison fellowship track of the New Orleans program in Baton Rouge is an option for residents interested in CL training.   
  • Greater Baton Rouge has a population of over 800,000 people with no other psychiatric residency training in the area.
  • We are home of the LSU undergraduate campus that boasts academic opportunities for collaboration as well as the ability to follow and attend national championship level athletic events in men’s football and baseball and women’s gymnastics and basketball among other sports.
  • Our board passage rate is 98% over the last 9 years.

We firmly believe that the best residency experience is one where there is a good fit between the resident and the program.  You need to feel like the training program you choose will be a place where you can grow and develop an identity as a physician and psychiatrist.  If you are looking for a place where your education is our priority, where the curriculum focuses not only on molecules but on the role of human relationships, and where an individual approach to helping you meet your potential is stressed, then LSU  Baton Rouge might be the place for you!

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Kathleen Crapanzano, MD, MACM

Section Chief 

kcrap1@lsuhsc.edu

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Sydney S. Melancon, MD

Program Director

ssmi43@lsuhsc.edu

 

 

 

Here are some other highlights about our program:

  • We have a busy psychiatric emergency room
  • We have a thriving adult Consult and Liaison Psychiatry service
  • We have TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) and nasal esketamine treatment in our resident clinic
  • Our residents have access to ECT treatment with one of our partner hospitals
  • We have expanded our suicide-specific treatment program in inpatient and outpatient settings 
  • We have a trauma specialist to education residents on trauma-informed care, both inpatient and outpatient
  • We have a medication assisted therapy clinic for opiate use disorder  and an addiction consult service in the hospital
  • We have developed a Child and Adolescent consultation service for the free standing OLOL Children's hospital. 
  • Our residents and fellows have opporuntiy to rotate at to The Maples, an all girls residential treatment facility 
  • We have a strong focus on psychotherapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, and Supportive Therapy as the focus. We also teach: Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness techniques, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, group therapy, and couple’s therapy.
  • We have a process group for our PGY 1-4 residents to help with wellness.

We are excited to continue recruiting for our 5-year combined adult/child and adolescent psychiatry track!
Applicants can apply to the general adult residency program and/or the 5-year combined track through ERAS. 

LSUHSC Baton Rouge Psychiatry Residency Program
5246 Brittany Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Ph: 225-757-4212