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Program profile · Nebraska

Psychiatry residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center

Last verified July 25, 2026 · Checked against the program's official website

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 25, 2026.

Program
Psychiatry Residency (Department of Psychiatry)
Sponsoring institution
University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
Location
Omaha, Nebraska
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 25, 2026.

Class size
About five residents per class.
Clinical partner
Nebraska Medicine, a regional academic health network with 809 licensed beds, more than 1,400 physicians, and 40 clinics in and around Omaha, with training sites that include rural and forensic settings, most within a 20-minute drive of the medical center.
Fellowships
Accredited fellowships in addiction medicine and forensic psychiatry and postdoctoral psychology programs, plus psychiatry-eligible fellowships in brain injury medicine, hospice and palliative medicine, pain medicine, sleep medicine, and behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry.
Program director
Not named on the residency overview page reviewed here; see the program's core faculty page and the ACGME ADS finder.

shrinkiatry context

The UNMC psychiatry residency, which enrolled its first class in 2020, operates from the renovated Poynter Hall, the first building of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, which opened in 1913. Its faculty of more than 40 are largely clinician-educators with subspecialty expertise. It is in Omaha.

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Sources

  1. University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Residency. https://www.unmc.edu/psychiatry/education/residency/index.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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