The newly accredited University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Psychiatry Residency Program is a four-year education and training program for medical school graduates that will prepare board-eligible residents in the field of psychiatry.
The Tuscaloosa Psychiatry Residency provides opportunities for psychiatry residents to learn and work alongside highly skilled and experienced medical professionals in a wide range of inpatient and outpatient practice settings, including urban medical centers and smaller and rural community sites.
The residency will allow for six residents each year, with the first class to start June 2026.
Psychiatry residents will work at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, the region’s advanced trauma center. Residents will work in the hospital’s psychiatric emergency room and handle psychiatric consultations.
Residents will also work in community mental health at Indian Rivers Behavioral Health in Tuscaloosa and in community mental health and rural psychiatry at Project Horseshoe Farms in Greensboro, Ala. https://www.projecthsf.org/ In addition, residents will have addiction psychiatry rotations at Bradford Health Service’s rehabilitation unit in Warrior, Ala. https://bradfordatwarrior.com/, and they will work with physicians at University Medical Center in Tuscaloosa https://umc.ua.edu and The University of Alabama Student Health Center and Pharmacy https://cchs.ua.edu/shc/.
The Tuscaloosa Psychiatry Residency is operated by the UA College of Community Health Sciences. CCHS also operates the UA Student Health Center and Pharmacy and University Medical Center, which serves as the foundation of the College’s clinical teaching program for its medical students and residents.
The Tuscaloosa Psychiatry Residency joins The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program, also operated by CCHS and one of the oldest and largest family medicine residencies in the nation. Psychiatry residents will work alongside family medicine residents on the joint provision of behavioral and primary health care.