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Program profile · California

Psychiatry residency at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center

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

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 27, 2026.

Program
Psychiatry Residency Program
Sponsoring institution
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center
Location
Colton, California
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
Kedarnath Challakere, MD, per the program's official site.
Setting
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center is a San Bernardino County safety-net teaching hospital in Colton, with a behavioral-health department, giving residents a public-hospital and community-psychiatry base serving a large, diverse Inland Empire population.
How to apply
Applications run through ERAS, and the program takes part in the NRMP Main Residency Match under its own National Resident Matching Program code. Arrowhead Regional lists psychiatry among the ACGME-accredited residency programs run through its graduate medical education office, so applicants should confirm current requirements, rotations, and interview timing on the official program page before they apply.

shrinkiatry context

Arrowhead Regional runs a county safety-net psychiatry residency in the Inland Empire, with heavy exposure to acute, emergency, and underserved-population psychiatric care. It's in Colton, in San Bernardino County, and as a public teaching hospital it draws a broad mix of patients who rely on the county system for behavioral-health care. That gives residents a training base rooted in access, acuity, and community psychiatry across one of California's largest and fastest-growing regions.

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Sources

  1. Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Psychiatry Residency Program. https://www.arrowheadregional.org/education-research/acgme-accredited-residency-programs/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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