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Residency Guide · by state

Psychiatry residency in Alaska

Last checked July 28, 2026 · Checked against the ACGME and program directories

The short answer

Alaska doesn't have an ACGME-accredited psychiatry residency program of its own. When we last checked, there wasn't a single general psychiatry residency training in the state, so there's no list of Alaska programs to publish here. We're keeping this page instead of leaving a gap, because "there isn't one yet" is real, useful information if you're planning where to train.

How we checked

We looked at the national residency directories and at Alaska's own teaching hospitals. The ACGME public finder and the AMA's FREIDA database don't list a psychiatry residency in the state, and Providence Alaska's graduate medical education office, which runs most of the state's residency training, lists family medicine, pharmacy, a hospice and palliative medicine fellowship, and clinical pastoral education, but no psychiatry residency. If that changes and a program earns accreditation, we'll build a verified Alaska page the same way we build every other state.

How Alaskans train in psychiatry

Most Alaskan physicians train through the WWAMI program, in which the University of Washington School of Medicine serves Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. Medical students can do much of their early training in Alaska, but for a full psychiatry residency they generally match to programs outside the state and then, in many cases, return to practice. The Alaska Family Medicine Residency in Anchorage includes psychiatry and behavioral-health rotations, so family physicians trained in the state build real mental-health skills, but that's a family medicine residency, not a psychiatry one. State facilities like the Alaska Psychiatric Institute serve as clinical sites rather than as the sponsor of an accredited psychiatry residency.

Why this matters

Where residents train matters for where psychiatrists end up practicing, because physicians often stay near where they finish training. A state without a psychiatry residency has a harder time growing its own psychiatric workforce, and Alaska's size, rural reach, and reliance on telepsychiatry make that gap especially real for the people who live there. That's the honest picture, and it's exactly the kind of thing a national guide should say plainly rather than paper over.

Know of an accredited Alaska program?If a psychiatry residency in Alaska has earned ACGME accreditation, tell us on the submission and correction form and we'll verify it and build a page. A listing is never an endorsement, an award, or a ranking.

Sources

  1. ACGME Accreditation Data System public finder (search Alaska for psychiatry programs). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/
  2. AMA FREIDA residency database. https://freida.ama-assn.org/
  3. Providence Alaska Graduate Medical Education (lists the state's residency and fellowship programs). https://gme.providence.org/alaska/
  4. University of Washington School of Medicine, WWAMI Medical Education Program, Alaska. https://www.uwmedicine.org/school-of-medicine/md-program/wwami/alaska
  5. Alaska Family Medicine Residency, psychiatry rotation. https://akfmr.org/curriculum/core-rotations/psychiatry/

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