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I’m a new resident at UC Irvine and I wanted to share how great it is to the incoming class!
Location:
Location:
- Beautiful Orange County
- Many residents live by the beach with comfortable housing options near UCI Medical Center
- Close in vicinity to Disneyland, Anaheim Stadium, and other fun attractions
- Lower cost of living, relative to Los Angeles and San Francisco
- Racially, socioeconomically and medically diverse population at UCI Medical Center, Long Beach VA and Long Beach Memorial Hospital. Electives at private practices and community sites.
- Personable, knowledgeable and approachable faculty -- one of the greatest strengths of UC Irvine
- Traditional lectures on psychopharmacology, psychotherapy and so on, in addition to practical lectures on private practice finances, advanced EMR training and so on.
- Residents rotate through child units and forensic rotations, and are exposed to the fellows on these respective rotations
- PGY-1’s can opt to rotate through peds inpatient wards
- ISTDP training with the renowned, Dr. Douglas Kahn
- Multiple psychiatric clinics throughout the VA and UCI Medical Center, making the third and fourth year of residency interesting and unique
- Medical students throughout the rotations, giving many opportunities to teach and mentor
- Annual housing stipend of $2,900
- Annual educational fund and licensing fund of $1,000, each
- Full medical coverage for you and your family
- Flexible, and forgiving, call schedule
- Recent shift towards a buddy system: 12-hour calls are now shared, making the workload more tolerable
- Combination of weekday short call, weekend 12-hour shifts, and night float system
- Residents, alumni and faculty are heavily involved in organized psychiatry including APA, CPA and OCPS
- Dr. Rao, former president of ACAP
- Dr. McCarron, president elect of CPA
- One of our chiefs is the APA Area 6 Resident Representative
- Multiple faculty on the board of OCPS and attend meetings regularly
- Residents encouraged to use educational days to attend local, state, and national meetings
- Plentiful job opportunities at UC Irvine, VA, county and private practices, given that UCI is the only academic institution in Orange County
- Numerous moonlighting opportunities at community sites around Orange County and South Los Angeles
- Residents eligible to moonlight beginning PGY-2 Year
- Although there is no in-house moonlighting, residents have no problem finding moonlighting opportunities
- Family friendly!
- Irvine has some of America’s best schools and is amongst its safest cities
- Flexible scheduling of up to 20 days of vacation
- Access to discounted faculty housing
- Mid-size program with friendly, collegial residents
