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Program profile · California

Psychiatry residency at Stanford University

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

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 27, 2026.

Program
General Psychiatry Residency Program
Sponsoring institution
Stanford University
Location
Palo Alto, 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.

Sponsor and structure
The program is the Stanford Health Care-sponsored general psychiatry residency at Stanford University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. It offers dedicated tracks including a Neuroscience Research Track, a Social Medicine and Humanities Research Track, and a Public and Community Track.
Residents
The program's roster shows a research-heavy resident body drawn from leading medical schools across the country, many holding additional graduate degrees. The residency's leadership is listed on a dynamic section of the official page that isn't machine-readable, so we don't reproduce individual leadership names here.

shrinkiatry context

Stanford's program is one of the country's most research-oriented academic psychiatry residencies, with formal neuroscience and social-medicine research tracks and a public and community track, in the heart of Silicon Valley. It's in Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Sources

  1. Stanford Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, General Psychiatry Residency Program. https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/residents/general.html
  2. Stanford Medicine, General Psychiatry Residency, Who We Are. https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/residents/general/whoweare.html
  3. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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