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Program profile · California

Psychiatry residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego

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
Naval Medical Center San Diego
Location
San Diego, California
Program type
General (adult) psychiatry, military
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
David Nissan, MD, who the program and the Uniformed Services University list as psychiatry residency training director.
Setting
This is a military psychiatry residency sponsored by Naval Medical Center San Diego, training active-duty Navy and other service physicians to care for service members and military families, within the Defense Health Agency's graduate-medical-education system and affiliated with the Uniformed Services University.
How it works
As a military program, it fills through the military graduate-medical-education selection process rather than the civilian match, and exposes residents to operational, deployment-related, and military behavioral-health care alongside standard psychiatric training.

shrinkiatry context

Naval Medical Center San Diego runs one of the Navy's psychiatry residencies, preparing uniformed psychiatrists for military practice with heavy exposure to service-member and family mental health, deployment-related conditions, and operational psychiatry. It's in San Diego.

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Sources

  1. Naval Medical Center San Diego, GME Programs, Psychiatry. https://sandiego.tricare.mil/Academics/GME-Programs/Sponsored-Programs/Psychiatry
  2. AMA FREIDA, Naval Medical Center (San Diego) Program (Psychiatry, ACGME 4000521253). https://www.imgprep.com/residency-programs/psychiatry/naval-medical-center-san-diego-program/4000521253
  3. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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