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Program profile · California

Psychiatry residency at UCLA-Kern 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
General Psychiatry Residency Program
Sponsoring institution
UCLA-Kern Medical Center
Location
Bakersfield, 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
Sara Abdijadid, DO, MS. The associate program directors are Ammar Ahmad, MD, for the child and adolescent track, and Ranjit Padhy, MD, DFAPA, for community psychiatry.
History and certification
The program reports that it's a four-year residency accredited in 2002 with its first graduating class in 2004, and that, through a relationship with UCLA, graduates receive certificates of completion from both Kern Medical and UCLA.
Training sites
The program describes rotations at the Kern Medical Behavioral Health Unit and consultation-liaison service, the Kern Behavioral Health and Recovery Services resident outpatient clinic, a children's clinic, the Bakersfield VA outpatient clinic, and the Lerdo Detention Facility, plus UCLA-affiliated sites including the VA Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center and Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.

shrinkiatry context

UCLA-Kern is a UCLA-affiliated county psychiatry residency serving the Central Valley from Bakersfield, with a strong public-, community-, and correctional-psychiatry base and a dual-UCLA credential. It's in Bakersfield, in Kern County.

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Sources

  1. Kern Medical, General Psychiatry Residency Program. https://www.kernmedical.com/academics/residency-fellowship-programs/psychiatry-residency/general-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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