Residency Awards and Post Graduate Experience

Graduates of the California Pacific Medical Center Psychiatry Residency Training Program tend to remain in the San Francisco Bay Area. Approximately 25% of the program's graduates enter child/adolescent residencies and fellowship programs; 25% join medical groups; 10% join community psychiatry programs; and 35% enter solo private practices in psychiatry. Many graduates remain involved with the Department in clinical and teaching roles as attending psychiatrists, and as supervisors and instructors for residents and medical students.

Recent graduates of the program have been accepted for subspecialty training fellowships in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry. Residents in training in the Department have received fellowship awards including the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training International Medical Graduate Fellowship, the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry Ginsberg Fellowship, and the American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship Award, the APA Minority Fellowship and CORF Fellowship.