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Program profile · California

Psychiatry residency at UCSF

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

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 27, 2026.

Program
Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Sponsoring institution
University of California, San Francisco
Location
San Francisco, 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
Andrew Halls, MD, is the interim program director; Sharon Salapare is the program administrator.
Training sites
The program reports four years of training across three main San Francisco sites: Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and the department's Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building on the UCSF Mission Bay campus, plus rotations within the UCSF Medical Center on the Parnassus, Mount Zion, and Mission Bay campuses.
Mission
The program frames its mission around training leaders in psychiatry across clinical care, research, education, and public policy, integrating biological, psychological, and sociocultural approaches. It reports matching 16 residents for its Class of 2030.

shrinkiatry context

UCSF's program is one of the country's premier academic psychiatry residencies, pairing a top-tier research department with a large public safety-net hospital and a VA in a diverse urban setting. It's in San Francisco.

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Sources

  1. UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program. https://psych.ucsf.edu/rtp
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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