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Program profile · California

Psychiatry residency at UC 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
University of California, San Diego
Location
La Jolla, 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
Michael J. McCarthy, MD, PhD.
Setting and sites
The program describes itself as a large academic training program based at UC San Diego, with affiliate sites at the San Diego VA Medical Center and Rady Children's Hospital and additional community training sites throughout San Diego.
Clinical breadth
The program reports training across inpatient, emergency, community, neuromodulation and electroconvulsive therapy, child and adolescent, geriatric, consultation-liaison, outpatient, psychotherapy, and substance-use settings, backed by a department it describes as founded more than 50 years ago as one of the first biological-psychiatry and neuroscience-focused programs, with more than 200 faculty.

shrinkiatry context

UC San Diego's program is a large, research-intensive academic psychiatry residency with deep neuroscience roots and a wide clinical footprint across a university system, a VA, a children's hospital, and community sites. It's in La Jolla, in the San Diego area.

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Sources

  1. UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry, General Psychiatry Residency, Program Director's Welcome. https://psychiatry.ucsd.edu/education-training/residency-programs/general/mission/welcome.html
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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