Research

The UCSD Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is closely associated with a large National Institute of Mental Health Center Grant located at Children's Hospital. Faculty within the division have diverse research interests including traumatic brain injury, autism and developmental disorders, pediatric pain and effects of cancer, mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD, as well as clinical psychopharmacology in children and adolescents. 

RESIDENT RESEARCH PROJECT
Residents in our program have the unique opportunity to collaborate with our nationally recognized faculty as they develop and pursue their individual research projects. Resident projects are presented during Psychiatry Grand Rounds and can be presented in a psychiatry housestaff competition for the annual chairman's Prize for Research. 

OTHER 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 medical library available to residents twenty-four hours per day and seven days per week with computerized and inter-loan capability. The library receives 200 medical journals and sixteen psychiatric journals.