{"id":35712,"date":"2025-08-22T13:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=35712"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:53:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:53:46","slug":"program-application-criteria","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/uconn-psychiatry-residency-program-at-manchester-memorial-hospital\/program-application-criteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Application Criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-35712\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-35712-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-35712-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-35712-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are our Psychiatry Program application criteria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>USMLE Step 1 (Pass) and USMLE Step 2 CK &gt; 225<\/li>\n<li>DO candidates must have passed COMLEX Level 1 and 2 (Score &gt;450)<\/li>\n<li>YOG &lt; 4 years. For the year of graduation longer than 4 years, the candidate needs to have home country residency, impressive clinical experience in psychiatry or scholarly experience in psychiatry<\/li>\n<li>U.S. clinical experience is preferred<\/li>\n<li>Three letters of recommendation are required<\/li>\n<li>We will not offer H1 or accept ECFMG-sponsored J1 visa for 2025-26 match cycle.<\/li>\n<li>No attempts on COMLEX or USMLE exams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below are our Psychiatry Program application criteria. USMLE Step 1 (Pass) and USMLE Step 2 CK &gt; 225 DO candidates must have passed COMLEX Level 1 and 2 (Score &gt;450) YOG &lt; 4 years. For the year of graduation longer than 4 years, the candidate needs to have home country residency, impressive clinical experience in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5287,"featured_media":0,"parent":35525,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 02:22:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36535,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35712\/revisions\/36535"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}