PGY-1 residents spend two months on Inpatient Adult Internal Medicine at CPMC’s Van Ness Campus, one month of Emergency Medicine at the Van Ness Campus, and a one-month selective at either San Francisco Free Clinic or Benioff Children’s Hospital. They also have two months of Neurology (one month each at CPMC and Highland Hospital) and six months of Inpatient Psychiatry.

PGY-2 residents participate in three two-month blocks of consults, which combines work on the Consultation-Liaison service with psychiatric evaluations in the Emergency Room. This is interwoven with two months of Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at St Mary’s Hospital, scholarly projects (Journal Club, QI project, M+M conference), and four months of Inpatient Psychiatry.

PGY-3 residents focus on outpatient psychiatry, including adult, child and adolescent experiences. There is extensive training in psychotherapy based on psychopharmacology, dynamic therapy, CBT, and brief treatments. In addition to seeing patients at the main CPMC-Davies clinic, residents also spend time working in outpatient child psychiatry (primarily at the CPMC Child Development Center) as well as the Child and Adolescent Consultation Liaison Service. One day a week, PGY-3 residents spend the day working with an expert mentor in forensic psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, interventional psychiatry, or collaborative care. These rotations take place at San Quentin State Prison, Mindful Health Solutions, and the CPMC Mission Bernal Women’s Mental Health Clinic.

PGY-4 residents continue their outpatient work and have the opportunity to hone specific skills of interest as they prepare for their post-residency careers. There is opportunity for administrative and leadership development through chief residency, and by representing the program at professional meetings. There is also time for electives: in the past, residents have pursued additional psychotherapy training through the prestigious San Francisco Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program, worked on forensic cases with Dr Newman, traveled to China to study the treatment of children with ADHD in elementary school there, pursued additional geriatric psychiatry training at The San Francisco Jewish Home, worked in transgender mental health at Healthright 360's Lyon-Martin Clinic, received training in Electroconvulsive Therapy at Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley, and participated in collaborative care training in a Maori outpatient community clinic.