By Nicholas Roznovsky
After receiving over 500 applications and interviewing more than 75 candidates over a 12-week period, the UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) announced that it will welcome 16 new residents into its Class of 2020. The incoming class, which will begin clinical work in late June after participating in orientation activities, is a highly diverse and accomplished group.
Together, the class has published 36 peer-reviewed manuscripts and presented 22 posters at national meetings. Every member has held significant leadership positions and the majority hold advanced degrees, including two graduating from Medical Scientist Training Programs with combined MD/PhD degrees. The class includes founders and leaders of free clinics and non-profit community organizations, entrepreneurs, Teach for America volunteers, magazine editors, and peer mentors among its ranks. Included in the group of eight women and eight men are fluent speakers of Cantonese, French, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, and American Sign Language.
According to primary figures provided by the National Resident Matching Program, 850 U.S. medical school seniors selected psychiatry as their field of specialty this year, comprising 5% of the total match pool. That total represents a 0.4% increase from 2015.
About UCSF Psychiatry
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute are among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult and geriatric mental health. Together they constitute one of the largest departments in the UCSF School of Medicine, with a mission focused on research (basic, translational, clinical), teaching, patient care, and public service. UCSF Psychiatry has an organizational structure that crosses all major UCSF sites - Parnassus, Mission Bay, Laurel Heights, Mt. Zion, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, the San Francisco VA Health Care System, and UCSF Fresno.
About UCSF
UC San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It includes top-ranked graduate schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy; a graduate division with nationally renowned programs in basic, biomedical, translational and population sciences; and a preeminent biomedical research enterprise. It also includes UCSF Health, which comprises two top-ranked hospitals, UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, and other partner and affiliated hospitals and healthcare providers throughout the Bay Area.
