Baton Rouge Psychiatry Residency

Here are some highlights about our program:

• 98% board passage rate!
• We have 69 inpatient beds: 2 adult inpatient units, a geriatric unit and a child and adolescent unit
• 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 medication assisted therapy clinic for opiate use disorder 
• We have developed a Child and Adolescent consultation service for the free standing OLOL Children's hospital. 
• 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-2-4 residents to help with wellness.
• We have dedicated teaching in reproductive psychiatry, quality improvement, patient safety, narrative medicine, ethics, the history of psychiatry, and more.
• We have a thriving Community Engagement Committee run by our residents. The members of this committee help us with curriculum evaluation, advocacy, and get together frequently to appreciate diversity through discussion of film, articles, and art.
• Greater Baton Rouge has a population of over 800,000 people. There is no other psychiatric residency program in the city. We see patients with Medicaid/Medicare, private insurance, and those who are uninsured.

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