University of California San Francisco - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is composed of programs located at several different geographic sites, including the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building; UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital; Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center; San Francisco Veteran Affairs Medical Center; UCSF Medical Centers at Parnassus Heights, Mount Zion, and Mission Bay; UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in Oakland and San Francisco; clinical and research programs at UCSF's Parnassus Heights, Mount Zion, and Mission Bay campuses; and community-based programs located throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. Training is provided by more than 340 full-time faculty members and over 200 volunteer clinical faculty to 600 medical students, 63 general psychiatry residents, 26 psychiatry fellows, and more than 115 pre- and postdoctoral trainees in clinical psychology, social work, nursing, rehabilitation therapy, genetics, and neuroscience. Throughout its history, the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has held a strong commitment to basic and clinical research training, and currently sponsors a number of pre- and postdoctoral training grants in basic and clinical research. Laboratories at each of the training sites are excellently equipped for molecular and cellular biology, as well as clinical psychopharmacologic, neurochemical, psychophysiological, and social science research. Trainees in the program have access to a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient programs at UCSF that provide subspecialty care and serve as a setting for clinical psychiatric research, as well as comprehensive programs to support and nurture psychiatry trainees interested in pursuing careers in mental health research.