The core curriculum for Baylor residents provides an intensive educational experience in the skills and knowledge base required to be an effective clinical psychiatrist. The seminars occur in six tracks across all four years of training: psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, neurosciences, ethics, research and descriptive psychiatry. Formal didactic instruction of the core curriculum begins during the first weeks of the rotation on Psychiatry. First year seminars include Psychopharmacology, Emergency Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, Crisis Intervention, Psychiatric Interviewing, Psychological Testing and Descriptive Psychiatry (Psychiatric Diagnosis). Each resident is assigned to a faculty member and a PGY IV resident who serve as preceptors and general individual supervisors in addition to the clinical service supervisors. All residents attend the weekly Departmental Grand Rounds and twice monthly Journal Club.

Postgraduate Year-II
During this year, the resident completes a basic curriculum in general hospital psychiatry that concentrates on the diagnosis and treatment of more severely disturbed individuals. Each resident spends 9-12 months on psychiatric inpatient services during the first two years. The remaining months of psychiatry rotations take place on the consultation and liaison service and subspecialty services. In addition, second-year residents begin to follow long-term psychotherapy patients at the Baylor Psychiatry Clinic.
Clinical rotations for inpatient psychiatry during PGY-II are at The Methodist Hospital and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Consultation/liaison psychiatry assignments are at the VAMC, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and the Ben Taub General Hospital. Each resident rotates for one month each on the subspecialty services for geriatric psychiatry and addiction psychiatry. Child psychiatry assignments are at Texas Children's Hospital.

The didactic curriculum in the second postgraduate year includes seminars in Individual Psychotherapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy, Group Psychotherapy, Geriatric Psychiatry, Advanced Psychopharmacology, Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation/Liaison, Psychopathology, Substance Abuse Disorders and Basic Psychodynamic Theory. The resident is assigned two psychotherapy supervisors who assist the resident in the evaluation and initial phases of psychotherapy.

Postgraduate Year-III