By Nicholas Roznovsky
After receiving 780 applications and conducting interviews with 92 candidates over a 12-week period, the UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) announced that it will welcome a full class of 16 new resident physicians into its Class of 2023. The incoming class, which will begin clinical work in late June following orientation activities, is a highly accomplished group.
Together, the cohort has published more than 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts. They hold interest in a wide variety of sub-specialties, including addiction psychiatry, basic science research, child and adolescent psychiatry, clinical research, consultation-liaison psychiatry, digital health, medical education, mental health policy, public psychiatry, and translational research.
The incoming class contains presidents of student interest groups in psychiatry, Student National Medical Association officers, editors-in-chiefs for literary magazines, managers of free clinics, members of medical student curriculum committees, founders of non-profit community organizations, recipients of T32 and HHMI fellowships, and presidents of LGBT organizations. Included in the group are fluent speakers of French, German, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, and Tamil.
Additional facts about the UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program Class of 2023:
- 50 percent are women
- 19 percent are from under-represented minorities in medicine (as defined by the Association of American Medical Colleges)
- 38 percent received their medical degree from California institution, 56 percent from medical schools in other U.S. states, and 6 percent from schools outside of the United States
- 31 percent intend to participate in the UCSF Psychiatry Research Resident Training Program
- 13 percent identify as LGBT
- 25 percent hold combined MD/PhD or MD/MBA degrees
- 38 percent have been recognized by either the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society or Gold Humanism Honor Society
- At 16 students, this year's incoming class of psychiatry residents is the largest in California and among the top ten largest in the nation
According to preliminary figures provided by the National Resident Matching Program, more than 38,000 U.S. and international medical school students and graduates vied for residency positions, making this year's match the largest in history. Of those, 1,740 applicants were offered residency positions by 309 psychiatry and psychiatry-related programs. Since 2015, the total number of psychiatry residency positions offered nationwide has increased by 28.6 percent.
About UCSF Psychiatry
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital, 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 mission focused on research (basic, translational, clinical), teaching, patient care, and public service.
UCSF Psychiatry conducts its clinical, educational and research efforts at a variety of locations in Northern California, including UCSF campuses at Parnassus Heights, Mission Bay and Laurel Heights, UCSF Medical Center, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, the San Francisco VA Health Care System, and UCSF Fresno.
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—Neurology, Psychiatry, 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
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 three top-ranked hospitals – UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland – as well as Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital, UCSF Benioff Children’s Physicians, and the UCSF Faculty Practice. UCSF Health has affiliations with hospitals and health organizations throughout the Bay Area. UCSF faculty also provide all physician care at the public Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. The UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program is a major branch of the University of California, San Francisco’s School of Medicine.
