Resources

Geographic and climate desirability have been responsible for the progressive growth of San Diego County over the past fifteen years, and the city of San Diego has become a focal point for health sciences and facilities for the 2.5 million residents. There are thirty-seven hospitals containing 4,000 acute, short-term beds, and sixty-one nursing care facilities serving the immediate area. The San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute offers programs in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy and full psychoanalytic training. In addition, San Diego has become a center for biomedical research as a result of the development of UCSD, and the Salk and Scripps Research Institutes.

There are two medical libraries at UCSD. The Biomedical Library, housed in the Basic Science Building, serves students, staff, and faculty of the School of Medicine and those graduate programs in biology. The collection numbers 75,000 volumes and 4,000 journal subscriptions. The Medical Center Library located at the UCSD Medical Center, contains over 21,000 volumes, as well as slides, cassettes, and other informational material.

Children's Hospital and Health Center also has a psychiatric library available to residents 24 hours per day and seven days per week with computerized and inter-loan capability. The library receives 200 medical journals and sixteen psychiatric journals.