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Program profile · California

Psychiatry residency at St. Joseph's 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
St. Joseph's Medical Center (Dignity Health)
Location
Stockton, 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.

Setting
St. Joseph's Medical Center is a Dignity Health and CommonSpirit Health hospital in Stockton, and its psychiatry residency trains residents to serve the San Joaquin Valley, a largely agricultural and medically underserved part of California's Central Valley.
Accreditation
The program is ACGME-accredited and runs the standard four-year adult psychiatry sequence. Dignity Health lists it among the graduate medical education programs it sponsors across California. We're leaving the program director's name off here because we couldn't confirm it on the hospital's own current program page, which now redirects to a system-wide residency landing page.
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, so applicants should confirm current requirements, tracks, and interview timing on the official Dignity Health program page before they apply.

shrinkiatry context

St. Joseph's runs a community-teaching-hospital psychiatry residency in Stockton built to grow the behavioral-health workforce in the San Joaquin Valley, one of California's most underserved regions. It's part of the Dignity Health and CommonSpirit Health system, so residents train inside a large faith-based nonprofit network while serving a diverse, largely working-class Central Valley population. That gives the program a strong public-service and access-to-care emphasis in a county where psychiatrist shortages run deep.

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Sources

  1. Dignity Health, St. Joseph's Medical Center, Psychiatry Residency Program. https://www.dignityhealth.org/central-california/locations/stjosephs-stockton/for-physicians/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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