Leaders in Psychiatry: Training Pioneers in Clinical Care, Research, Education, and Public Policy
Welcome to the UCSF Psychiatry Residency Training Program website! We hope you find all the information you need on this site, but if you have any additional questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us!
Our residency program offers a four-year training opportunity across three main training sites in San Francisco: Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG), the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center (SFVAMC Mental Health Services), the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences' Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building near the UCSF Mission Bay campus. In addition to these three sites, residents also do rotations within the UCSF Medical Center on the UCSF Parnassus, Mount Zion, and Mission Bay campuses.
Our Mission
The UCSF Psychiatry Residency Training Program exists in the context of an ethnically and culturally diverse thriving urban setting in one of the premiere academic university medical centers in the world. Our training includes the biological, psychological and sociocultural aspects of psychiatry and strives to prepare residents for successful leadership careers emphasizing clinical practice, research, education, and advocacy. Our vision is to launch leaders in psychiatry, training pioneers in clinical care, research, education, and public policy.
To that end, our residency program’s mission is to:
- Create leaders in the field of psychiatry – in academics, research, clinical expertise, and public policy
- Foster the development of psychiatrists who practice critical thinking and an evidence-based approach in all aspects of their work
- Maintain scientific excellence and clinical relevance in the didactic program and in the clinical training experiences of residents
- Promote the professional development, mentoring, and well-being of residents and faculty
Who Are We Looking for at UCSF?
The UCSF Psychiatry Residency Training Program is eager to recruit and train the next generation of leaders in psychiatry. Our philosophy is that leadership comes in many different forms. There are leaders in research, leaders in education, leaders in clinical practice, leaders in clinical administration, and leaders in advocacy and commitment to medically, economically, or educationally disadvantaged populations.
UCSF is committed to welcoming and serving all people, honoring the dignity of each individual without preference or prejudice, in support of its public mission and consistent with our PRIDE values (Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, and Excellence) and our Principles of Community.
In accordance with federal and state law and university policy, the University of California does not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, health, or disability. For detailed information, please visit the UCSF Office of Opportunity and Outreach.
Learn More About Our Program
Application Information
The firm application deadline for Match 2027 is September 30, 2026.
Find out more about what's needed for your application, the interview process, requirements for international students, opportunities for PGY-2 entry, and more.
Program Highlights
The UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program is committed to launching leaders in psychiatry. We are looking for physicians who want to make a significant impact in the field and who want a training program that prepares them to be leaders in this new era of health care inquiry, systems improvement, population health, and interprofessional collaboration.
Our philosophy is that leadership comes in many different forms. There are leaders in research, leaders in education, leaders in clinical administration, and leaders in advocacy and commitment to the underserved. Training in our program means training in not only the leading health campus university in the country, but also in one of the most dynamic, progressive, and diverse cities in the world.
Learn more about opportunities for professional training and personal growth in our program
Clinical Experiences
UCSF emphasizes innovation and creativity, and the Psychiatry Residency Training Program offers a clinical curriculum in which residents become expert clinicians and leaders in the field. The program provides broad exposure to a diversity of patients, modalities, therapies, and environments, while also highlighting longitudinal relationships with patients, faculty, and clinical systems.
Didactic Curriculum
Our program seeks to provide broad exposure to a diversity of patients, modalities, therapies, and environments, while also emphasizing longitudinal relationships through communities of patients and teaching of fellow residents. To train future leaders in psychiatry, the didactic curriculum supports residents in their development of expertise in multiple domains of physicianship and psychiatric practice including in the roles of clinician, consultant, service innovator, team leader, educator, scholar, and specialist.
Research Resident Training Program
The UCSF Psychiatry Research Resident Training Program (RRTP) provides a comprehensive program to support and nurture psychiatry residents interested in pursuing careers in mental health research.
We strive to foster the continuing research careers of psychiatry residents who already have substantial previous backgrounds in research (e.g., masters, PhDs) and who are committed to a majority (>75%) research career. We also place a specific focus on identifying child psychiatry residents interested in pursuing a research career and fostering their career development. Our program includes career mentoring, protected time for research activities, research pilot funding, individualized training opportunities and more.
Call Experience
The call experience at UCSF provides the skills needed to manage patients overnight on the inpatient psychiatry units, provide consultation to medical-surgical services, as well as the skills needed to assess and manage behavioral emergencies.
When starting call, interns have a tandem experience with a senior resident before progressing to indirect supervision with an attending psychiatrist. The philosophy of call is to promote independence and autonomy while maintaining educational excellence and supervision.
Salary and Benefits
Salary scales for residents rotating at all sites are established by a collective bargaining agreement established between UCSF and the Committee on Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare
Our program also offers a robust benefits package, including a variety of health coverage benefits for residents and their dependents, financial benefits and planning resources, vacation and sick leave, reimbursement for educational expenses, and more.
Contact Us
Andrew Halls, MD, Interim Program Director
[email protected]
Kamla Fraser, Program Administrator
[email protected]
Taha Gilani, Program Administrator
[email protected]
UCSF Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
675 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94143
The firm application deadline for Match 2027 is September 30, 2026.
Find out more about what's needed for your application, the interview process, requirements for international students, opportunities for PGY-2 entry, and more.
The UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program is committed to launching leaders in psychiatry. We are looking for physicians who want to make a significant impact in the field and who want a training program that prepares them to be leaders in this new era of health care inquiry, systems improvement, population health, and interprofessional collaboration.
Our philosophy is that leadership comes in many different forms. There are leaders in research, leaders in education, leaders in clinical administration, and leaders in advocacy and commitment to the underserved. Training in our program means training in not only the leading health campus university in the country, but also in one of the most dynamic, progressive, and diverse cities in the world.
Learn more about opportunities for professional training and personal growth in our program
UCSF emphasizes innovation and creativity, and the Psychiatry Residency Training Program offers a clinical curriculum in which residents become expert clinicians and leaders in the field. The program provides broad exposure to a diversity of patients, modalities, therapies, and environments, while also highlighting longitudinal relationships with patients, faculty, and clinical systems.
Our program seeks to provide broad exposure to a diversity of patients, modalities, therapies, and environments, while also emphasizing longitudinal relationships through communities of patients and teaching of fellow residents. To train future leaders in psychiatry, the didactic curriculum supports residents in their development of expertise in multiple domains of physicianship and psychiatric practice including in the roles of clinician, consultant, service innovator, team leader, educator, scholar, and specialist.
The UCSF Psychiatry Research Resident Training Program (RRTP) provides a comprehensive program to support and nurture psychiatry residents interested in pursuing careers in mental health research.
We strive to foster the continuing research careers of psychiatry residents who already have substantial previous backgrounds in research (e.g., masters, PhDs) and who are committed to a majority (>75%) research career. We also place a specific focus on identifying child psychiatry residents interested in pursuing a research career and fostering their career development. Our program includes career mentoring, protected time for research activities, research pilot funding, individualized training opportunities and more.
The call experience at UCSF provides the skills needed to manage patients overnight on the inpatient psychiatry units, provide consultation to medical-surgical services, as well as the skills needed to assess and manage behavioral emergencies.
When starting call, interns have a tandem experience with a senior resident before progressing to indirect supervision with an attending psychiatrist. The philosophy of call is to promote independence and autonomy while maintaining educational excellence and supervision.
Salary scales for residents rotating at all sites are established by a collective bargaining agreement established between UCSF and the Committee on Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare
Our program also offers a robust benefits package, including a variety of health coverage benefits for residents and their dependents, financial benefits and planning resources, vacation and sick leave, reimbursement for educational expenses, and more.
Andrew Halls, MD, Interim Program Director
[email protected]
Kamla Fraser, Program Administrator
[email protected]
Taha Gilani, Program Administrator
[email protected]
UCSF Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
675 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94143