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.

Program Components

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.

Education Concentrations

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.