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UCLA Medical Center Psychiatry

Residency · Sylmar, CA

Sponsored by Olive View/UCLA Medical Center

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· Director Iljie Fitzgerald

UCLA Medical Center Psychiatry Residency, Sylmar, CA | Carlo Med

Class size: 7
Visas: None
PGY-1 salary: $98k2026 to 2027

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Fills every seat. Every seat filled in each of the last 5 Matches.

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Getting in

How it chooses

Applicants must be medical students or have graduated within the past two years, and be eligible for California licensure.

Who started, by class

Started 20267 on record of 7 seats · 4 US MD · 4 published before starting

Daniel MokhtarUSC6 papers · 2 reviews
Andrea ElserUSC5 papers · 1 first author
Simon KaplerGrossman School of Medicine4 papers · 2 first author · 1 review
Alina KangLeonard M. Miller School of Medicine2 papers · 1 first author · 1 case report
David SillerUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine
Savannah Seupaul

Training

6 training sites.

Where it trains

Olive View/UCLA Medical Center
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
San Fernando Mental Health Center
Olive View Community Mental Health Urgent Care Center
San Fernando Child and Family Center
West Valley Mental Health Center

Where graduates went next

Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship1
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship1
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship1

Where graduates work now

People

Leadership

Iljie FitzgeraldProgram Director
Michael DonathAssociate Program Director of Residency Education
Steven AllenAssociate Program Director of Residency Education
Alex KopelowiczChief of Psychiatry

Find someone

Washington University School of Medicine

Started 20257 on record of 7 seats · 7 US MD · 2 published before starting

Adrienne ChenDavid Geffen Sch of Med at UCLA6 papers · 2 first author · 1 review
Anush MarkaryanThe University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix2 papers · 1 review
Bobbie AlcanzoThe University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson
James SwansonLoyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Joshua LeeNew York Med Coll
Oliver PiltchColumbia Univ Coll of Phys & Surgeons
Zoe JeffriesWayne State University School of Medicine

Started 20247 on record of 7 seats · 5 US MD · 3 published before starting

Joseph GerlachJacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo2 papers
Kratika MishraUSC2 papers · 2 first author
Noah MillmanUSC2 papers · 1 first author
Ambriale DavisUniv of Texas Southwestern Med Sch at Dallas
Charity GikuraUniversity of California, Riverside
Luke KimUniversity of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Raymond TjhiaUniversity of Michigan Medical School

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center1

Kaiser Permanente Southern California1

Kern Psychiatric Health and Wellness Center Inc1

Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV1

Olive View/UCLA Medical Center1

Permanente Medical Group Inc1

Research

509 papers by its people, 14,507 citations

Schizophrenia research and treatment
Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Social Media in Health Education
Mental Health Treatment and Access
Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

Faculty, residents, graduates and the people residents publish with.

Publishes with residents

Einav SilversteinFamily Medicine, 2 residents
Karla O'DellOtolaryngology, 2 residents
Lauren Timmons-SundSpeech-Language Pathologist, 2 residents
Yael BensoussanOtolaryngology, 2 residents

62% of current residents have a paper since 2023

18 of 29, 39 papers between them

Place

Summers reach 93°, winters fall to 45°.

Weather by month

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Commute

1.0M people live within 20 minutes of Olive View/UCLA Medical Center by car with no traffic.

Cost of living

A one bedroom rents for about $2,080 a month within 10 miles of Olive View/UCLA Medical Center.

Hazards

Earthquakes
River flooding
Wildfire
Lightning