Greetings from Peter Ureste, MD

Thank you for your interest in the UC Riverside Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program. We aim to provide all the information you need, but if you have any additional questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Founded in 2014, the UC Riverside Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program is dedicated to providing innovative healthcare today while training the physicians of tomorrow. Our clinical partners include Riverside University Health System, Patton State Hospital, Pacific Grove Hospital, Veterans Affairs in Long Beach & Loma Linda, Kaiser Riverside, and more. Our main university clinical operation, UCR Health, is in downtown Riverside, where our trainees treat patients using state-of-the-art medications and psychotherapy and participate in neuropsychological assessments. Additionally, we have clinical operations in Orange County and the Coachella Valley.

As the sole university-based academic program in Riverside County, our residents are not just part of a program but a close-knit community. They are actively involved in scholarly and leadership activities, including with the resident union, and collaborate with faculty from the Department of Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health, the Center for Healthy Communities, the Department of Psychology, the Division of Biomedical Sciences, and more. Our program prides itself on its dedicated faculty mentors, including our chair, who not only actively cares for patients but also supervises residents in the clinic, ensuring a supportive and nurturing environment for our trainees.

Our program, situated in the culturally diverse Inland Southern California, strongly emphasizes cultural humility and acceptance. Our residents, some of whom serve on our Diversity Advisory Committee, are instrumental in enhancing equity and inclusion within our program, including participating in holistic reviews of residency applicants. We boast a diverse group of faculty who champion diversity in its broadest sense. To foster inclusion and break down barriers to higher education, we support pathway and outreach programs from middle school through medical school, to mentoring promising candidates to provide care to our diverse patient populations. Equipped with diverse training under the guidance of internationally renowned faculty in various treatment settings, our graduates significantly impact our community and have embarked on successful careers in community mental health, private practice, and academic psychiatry. 

Information about the UCR School of Medicine is here, and information about Graduate Medical Education at UCR is here.

Peter Ureste, MD