Graduate Medical Education (GME) - San Diego

GME programs for new physicians in San Diego

A Scripps Clinic internal medicine resident shines a light into a patient's mouth, representing the hands-on, patient-centered graduate training at Scripps.

GME programs for new physicians in San Diego

Scripps Health in San Diego offers several highly competitive graduate medical education (GME) programs for new physicians.

With five hospital campuses, a network of outpatient clinics and partnerships with community health agencies, physicians in training have opportunities to care for diverse patient populations in a variety of environments.

With top-notch faculty who emphasize personalized instruction, Scripps GME programs help interns, residents and fellows build lasting professional relationships and gain the skills needed to embark on a successful career in medicine.

GME programs at Scripps

Learn more about our medical specialty training programs and opportunities.

At Scripps, we offer a wide range of accredited fellowship programs for physicians who want to pursue subspecialty training. You’ll be mentored by expert faculty, care for diverse patient populations and conduct research. Find a match to a specific program below, and visit our fellowship page to learn more about applications, salary and benefits.

Our residents practice in a unique variety of learning environments. At Scripps, you’ll have opportunities to conduct research and collaborate with leading faculty in one of San Diego’s largest health care systems. Learn more about specific programs below.

Adult Psychiatry Residency

Family Health Centers of San Diego hosts a four-year ACGME-accredited program offering psychiatric education and hands-on experience with training sites throughout San Diego County. Our program’s mission is to recruit, train and retain a diverse group of psychiatry physicians with a passion for providing caring, affordable, high-quality psychiatric care to the underserved.

Our program focuses on training future psychiatrists with a balance between psychotherapeutic techniques and psychopharmacology. Trainees’ rotate through state-of-the-art health care systems, namely Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego and Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital during their first two years of training. In senior years, residents gain outpatient experience in cultural psychiatry through their work with refugee health and the diverse community population as well as other subspecialties such as children and adolescent psychiatry, women’s mental health, sports medicine, LGBTQ populations, community mental health, individuals experiencing homelessness and those struggling from addiction.

To learn more about the Adult Psychiatry Residency Program, please contact psyresidency@fhcsd.org for more information.

All rotations at Scripps are four weeks and provide medical students with an opportunity to work as an active member of the medical team. Learn more about specific programs below.

If you’re interested in a rotation as a visiting resident or fellow at Scripps Clinic and Scripps Green Hospital, please complete the application form below, provide your curriculum vitae and email it to Stephanie Lozano at Lozano.Stephanie@scrippshealth.org.

Visiting resident and fellow rotation application

If the rotation is approved, the deadline to submit paperwork is one month prior to the first day of the rotation. Visiting resident and fellow rotations at Scripps Clinic and Scripps Green Hospital in San Diego are not approved until all documentation has been received by the GME office and you have received a confirmation email.

Contact the GME team

If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the residency and fellowship programs at Scripps Health, please feel free to call and/or send an email.

Family practice residency at Mercy Hospital

familypractice.scripps@scrippshealth.org

619-691-7587 or 619-691-7479

Internal medicine residency at Mercy Hospital

crandall.debra@scrippshealth.org

619-260-7220

Internal medicine residency at Scripps Clinic and Scripps Green Hospital

bretzing.deanna@scrippshealth.org

858-554-3236

Pharmacy residency at Mercy Hospital

sikand.harminder@scrippshealth.org

619-691-7587