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 2030 following the release of the National Resident Matching Program's 2026 Main Residency Match results. The incoming class, which will begin clinical work on June 22 following orientation activities, is a highly accomplished group with a wide variety of academic and personal experiences.
Together, the cohort has published more than 120 peer-reviewed journal articles, plus over 270 posters, oral presentations, papers, and book chapters. They hold interest in a wide variety of sub-specialties, including basic science research, child and adolescent psychiatry, correctional/jail psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, interventional psychiatry, LGBTQ+ mental health, mental health policy, and public psychiatry. Three of this year's incoming residents will also participate in the UCSF Psychiatry Research Resident Training Program.
Every member of the incoming class has held significant leadership and volunteer roles. Included in their ranks are a Fogarty Fellow, three Fulbright Fellows, a Dukakis Policy Fellow, free clinic coordinators, refugee clinic and asylum evaluators, an HIV testing counselor, a public school science and health educator, several LGBTQ+ and anti-racism medical school curricular review team members, admissions committee members, a housing co-op board member, an online sexual health curriculum developer, jail health and education coordinators and workshop facilitators, former research assistants and patient navigators, a founder of a hospitalized patient voter initiative, multiple advocacy group and charitable organization board members and co-founders, a dementia center clinic director, the chair of a culinary medicine club, multiple undergraduate teaching assistants, and chapter presidents and board members of organizations like the Latino Medical Student Association, Student National Medical Association, and Black Men in White Coats.
"Each member of the Class of 2030 makes me so excited and honored to be an educator at this critical time, not only psychiatry residency education, but also in a rapidly changing and evolving world with increasing mental health care needs and ongoing disparities in access and outcomes," said interim program director Andrew Halls, MD. "I am inspired to see the leadership, innovation, passion, and compassion this new class will bring to UCSF and to our field."
The UCSF RTP Class of 2030 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.
According to preliminary figures provided by the National Resident Matching Program, more than 53,000 U.S. and international medical school students and graduates vied for over 44,000 residency positions across all specialties, marking the largest match in its 74-year history. Of those, 2,516 applicants were matched into first-year residency positions in psychiatry and psychiatry-related programs with a fill rate of 97.4 percent.
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.
