Psychiatry Residency

Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium (LLUHEC) Psychiatry residency program is home to a warm, inclusive, and connected family of residents led by passionate, innovative faculty. 

Our priority is to train compassionate, committed psychiatrists in both pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic interventions to address the needs of the whole range of psychiatric conditions across the entire spectrum of patient age and socioeconomic backgrounds. 

We equip our residents to integrate spiritual assessment and care into the traditional biopsychosocial model of psychiatric treatment to provide culturally sensitive, patient-centered care that aligns with Loma Linda University Health’s motto "To make man whole".

Why Choose Loma Linda University Psychiatry Residency

• Residents have the opportunity to rotate through a wide variety of clinical sites that offer rich exposure to psychopathology and practice.
• Our program values physician wholeness, demonstrated by protected didactics, afternoon wellness sessions, resident-designed call schedules, and biannual reflection retreats.
• San Bernardino County is considered a medically underserved area. Residents who train with Loma Linda University Health have the opportunity to pursue mission and medicine by helping to treat the area’s diverse population.

Program Overview

Our aim is to train psychiatrists who have a breadth of clinical experience across age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and practice settings that will prepare them for fulfilling careers in psychiatry.

• Robust and varied training sites provide rich learning opportunities. 
• Residents experience the nuances of psychiatric care as they train in inpatient, outpatient, and partial hospitalization settings across hospitals, medical centers, clinics, and county sites. 
• We provide robust training across the lifespan as residents treat children, adolescents, adults, and elderly patients. 
• Our program is located in San Bernardino County, a culturally diverse area that provides a dynamic patient population. 
• We integrate spiritual assessment into the traditional biopsychosocial model of psychiatric treatment to provide culturally sensitive, patient-centered care. 
• We prioritize resident well-being through protected didactics, afternoon wellness sessions, and resident-designed call schedules.

Curriculum

Our curriculum focuses on providing diverse training opportunities across varied clinical settings. 

We are committed to producing well-rounded psychiatrists who live out Loma Linda University’s mission of making man whole. 

Learning to be caring and professional interdisciplinary team players is an important part of our training. During our program, residents learn to support and interact with other specialties.

Facilities

Our residents rotate through the full breadth of the psychiatry ecosystem, including emergency psychiatry, consult-liaison, inpatient, forensic, partial hospitalization, outpatient, medication management, chemical dependency, psychotherapy, Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Residents regularly teach and mentor medical students at most of these sites. The vast majority of our sites are within 3.5 miles of the LLU Medical Center. Our furthest site, Patton State Hospital, is an optional Forensic Psychiatry elective.

Combined Child & Adolescent Track

Our program offers a Combined Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Track. This accelerated track is designed for applicants with a strong commitment to pursuing child and adolescent psychiatry. It affords the benefit of condensing what would normally be a 4-year residency and a 2-year fellowship into 5 years. Residents who match into the Combined Track will have a guaranteed spot in our Fellowship Program upon completion of the first three years of general residency in good standing.

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Benefits

Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium (LLUHEC) provides its residents and fellows with a compensation program that is highly competitive in today’s market. We approach salary and benefits as a total compensation package: wage programs, pay practices, paid time off, and ancillary benefits are all part of a compensation structure that sustains a comfortable quality of life for our residents and fellows.

Stipend Structure

Each PGY level stipend includes a housing allowance of $5,000 per year and a meal allowance of $1,500 per year.