Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program selects 16 to join its Class of 2019

After receiving over 400 applications and interviewing more than 75 candidates, the UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) announced that it will welcome 16 new residents into its Class of 2019. The incoming class, which will begin clinical work on June 21 after participating in orientation activities, is a highly diverse and accomplished group.

Together, the class has published more than 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 45 national poster presentations. Every member has held significant leadership positions and several hold advanced degrees, including five graduating from Medical Scientist Training Programs with combined MD/PhD degrees. The class includes recipients of the Howard Hughes Research Fellowship, NIMH research fellowships, a Peace Corps Volunteer, members of the Gold Humanism Honor Society, and founders of free clinics and non-profit community organizations among its ranks. Included in the group of ten women and six men are fluent speakers of Mandarin Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian.

According to program director Erick Hung, MD, the match process was not only highly successful for UCSF, but for the field as a whole as well with 4.6% of medical student seniors selecting psychiatry as their field of specialty. That number represents a 0.4% increase from 2014 and the largest relative increase for any specialty in the 2015 Match.

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 Medical Center, 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, as well as a preeminent biomedical research enterprise and two top-ranked hospitals, UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco.