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    Psychiatry Residency Program

    Rotations and Call

    Resident Year I:

    • Medicine or Pediatrics: 3 months + 1 month elective (usually Family Practice, Ambulatory Medicine or Pediatrics). 6 months adult inpatient. The Medicine and Pediatric rotations are residency teaching services that are committed to resident education.

    • Neurology: 2 months; 1 month at Highland Hospital and 1 month at CPMC. One month (Highland) is a combination of consult and outpatient work with a broad spectrum of pathology. The month at CPMC is on the Inpatient stroke service.

    • Call: No overnight call

    Resident Year II:

    • Adult Inpatient Psychiatry: 6 months

    • Consultation Psychiatry: 3 months

    • Sub-Specialty Psychiatry: 3 months

    • Child - California Pacific Child Development Center, Children's Hospital Oakland, Neuro-Psychiatry Psychosomatic Service at CPMC Davies Campus (including addictions and geropsychiatry

    • Outpatient Psychiatry: year long (5-10% time)

    • Call: 4x/month

    Resident Year III:

    • Adult Outpatient Psychiatry: California Pacific (12 months)
      Includes in-depth training in evaluation, differential treatment formulation, psychopharmacology (including faculty lead medication clinic), psychotherapy (dynamic, CBT, individual, brief couples/family, group) and Child/Adolescent psychiatry (psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy).

    • Call: 2x/month

    Resident Year IV:

    • Chief Resident: 6 months (2 residents/year)

    • Outpatient Psychiatry: All residents, 25% time

    • Multiple elective opportunities throughout the year: Community Psychiatry (both adult and child) Addictions, Geriatric psychiatry, Forensics, Women’s Health, Liaison (Oncology, OB/GYN)

    • Research: Individually arranged - depends on specific interests and level of commitment

    • Ambulatory Medicine/Family Practice: Institute for Health and Healing

    • Other special focus areas are also available in the Bay Area.

    • Call: 1x/month (Thursdays) plus back up for PGY2 and PGY3 residents
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