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Program profile · Texas

Psychiatry residency at Project Vida Health Center

Last verified July 27, 2026 · Checked against the program's official website

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 27, 2026.

Program
Community-Based Psychiatry Residency Program
Sponsoring institution
Project Vida Health Center
Location
El Paso, Texas
Program type
General (adult) psychiatry
Training length
Four years (PGY-1 to PGY-4)
Accreditation
ACGME-accredited. See the ACGME ADS finder for the program's current accreditation status and identifier.

Reported by the program

The program describes the following on its official website, reviewed on July 27, 2026.

Program director
Cynthia E. Garza, JD, MD, who is listed as program director and designated institutional official.
Setting
The program describes Project Vida Health Center as a Federally Qualified Health Center on the United States and Mexico border in El Paso that has integrated primary care, oral health, behavioral health, and substance-use care, in a bilingual and bicultural environment serving an underserved, historically low-income area.
Application
The program reports that it participates in the Match and accepts applications only through ERAS, with interviews from mid-October through early January.

shrinkiatry context

Project Vida runs a community-based psychiatry residency built inside a border-city community health center, so its training centers on bilingual, bicultural care for an underserved population and on the social determinants that shape it. As a newer community program, its track record is still developing. It's in El Paso.

Pay and visa policy, as published

Read from official pages on September 29, 2026 for the Psychiatry Residency Salary and Data Report. Confirm current figures with the program.

Resident pay
We couldn't find a pay figure we could verify on the official pages we checked. Ask the program for its current scale.
Visa policy
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Sources

  1. Project Vida Health Center, Psychiatry Residency Program. https://www.pvida.net/services/psychiatry-residency-program
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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