The newly announced UC San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program Class of 2029
The UC San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) announced that it will welcome a full cohort of 16 new resident physicians into its Class of 2029 following the release of the National Resident Matching Program's 2025 Main Residency Match results. The incoming class, which will begin clinical work in late June following orientation activities, is a diverse and highly accomplished group.
Together, the cohort has published more than 70 peer-reviewed manuscripts, with another 30+ submissions currently in review. They hold interest in a wide variety of sub-specialties, including addiction psychiatry, basic science research, consultation-liaison psychiatry, global mental health, HIV psychiatry, LGBTQ+ mental health, mental health services research, public psychiatry, and reproductive psychiatry.
The RTP Class of 2029 will receive educational instruction in variety of settings designed to provide broad exposure to a diversity of patients, modalities, therapies, and environments, including the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building, Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, the San Francisco VA Health Care System, and additional community-based sites throughout the Bay Area.
Each member of the incoming class has held significant leadership and volunteer roels, including two Fullbright fellows; members of admissions committees, wellness committees, and LGTBQ+ and anti-racism curriculum review teams, as well as the Latino Medical Student Association and White Coats for Black Lives; coordinators and leaders of psychiatry and medical humanities interest groups, medical and mental health free clinics, and health care innovation networks; founders of a charity foundation and a high school health professions pipeline program; volunteers with AmeriCorps, co-ops, food banks, and hospices; and experience in crisis hotline and text line work, peer counseling, casework, HIV counseling, birth and labor coaching, jail health and workshop facilitation
Additional facts about the UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program Class of 2029:
- 56% identify as women, 38% percent as men, and 6% identify as another gender identity
- 19% are from under-represented minorities in medicine (as defined by the Association of American Medical Colleges)
- 38% identify as LGBTQ+
- 19% are first-generation college graduates
- 50% received their medical degree from California institutions
- 19% intend to participate in the UCSF Psychiatry Research Resident Training Program
- At 16 students, this year's incoming class of psychiatry residents is once again one of the largest in California and the nation
According to preliminary figures provided by the National Resident Matching Program, more than 52,000 U.S. and international medical school students and graduates vied for over 43,000 residency positions across all specialties, marking the largest match in its 73-year history. Of those, 2,422 applicants were matched into first-year residency positions in psychiatry and psychiatry-related programs, representing a 5.2% increase over last year.
About UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 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 and the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, with a focus on providing unparalleled patient care, conducting impactful research, training the next generation of behavioral health leaders, and advancing diversity, health equity, and community across the field.
UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences conducts its clinical, educational, and research efforts at a variety of locations in Northern California, including the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building; UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital; UCSF Health medical centers and community hospitals across San Francisco; UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland; Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center; the San Francisco VA Health Care System; UCSF Fresno; and numerous community-based sites around the San Francisco Bay Area.
About the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
The UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, established by the extraordinary generosity of Joan and Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill, brings together world-class researchers with top-ranked physicians to solve some of the most complex challenges in the human brain.
The UCSF Weill Institute leverages UCSF’s unrivaled bench-to-bedside excellence in the neurosciences. It unites three UCSF departments—Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurology, and Neurological Surgery—that are highly esteemed for both patient care and research, as well as the Neuroscience Graduate Program, a cross-disciplinary alliance of nearly 100 UCSF faculty members from 15 basic-science departments, as well as the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, a multidisciplinary research center focused on finding effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders.
About UCSF
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is exclusively focused on the health sciences and is dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. UCSF Health, which serves as UCSF’s primary academic medical center, includes top-ranked specialty hospitals and other clinical programs, and has affiliations throughout the Bay Area.
