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Program profile · California

Psychiatry residency at Kaiser Permanente Fontana

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
Kaiser Permanente Southern California
Location
Fontana, 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
Neeta C. Saheba, MD, per the program's official site. Erin Martinez and Brenda Pelayo are program managers.
Setting and size
The program reports that it's a four-year residency based in the Inland Empire at the 400-bed Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center, using the 224-bed Ontario Medical Center as a satellite, and that it accepts six residents per year. It serves a Southern California patient population it describes as ethnically diverse.
Highlights
The program lists subspecialty outpatient clinics in areas such as pain management, eating disorders, and women's mental health, teaching opportunities with medical students, and faculty who hold academic appointments at Loma Linda University and USC, with an emphasis on cost-effective, evidence-based, population-based care.

shrinkiatry context

Kaiser Fontana is an integrated-system psychiatry residency in the Inland Empire that trains residents inside Kaiser Permanente's managed-care model, with strong population-health and evidence-based-practice emphases. It's in Fontana, in San Bernardino County.

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Sources

  1. Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Psychiatry Residency (Fontana). https://residency-scal-kaiserpermanente.org/residency/psychiatry/
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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