Residency training programs
General psychiatry residency
Our four year residency training program integrates clinical training in an academic medical setting with leading edge research and community-based mental health services.
Internal medicine and psychiatry residency
Our combined internal medicine and psychiatry program endeavors to train physicians in whole-person care and provides them clinical training with diverse and underserved patient populations.
Family medicine and psychiatry residency
Our combined family medicine and psychiatry residency training program, one of the oldest in the nation, trains physicians who will practice both family medicine and psychiatry.
Named a Best Grad School for Psychiatry in 2023-2024 by U.S. News & World Report
UC Davis School of Medicine’s psychiatry program is ranked 15th nationwide, placing it among the best medical education psychiatry programs in the nation according to the latest academic rankings released by U.S. News & World Report.
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Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Training
Our Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (CCAP) training programs are committed to the lifelong learning process and aim to create an environment that supports trainees to develop across different competency areas by recognizing their strengths and areas for growth.
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Fellowship programs
Child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship
The child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship is a two-year program designed to provide fourth and fifth year residents with the clinical experience, knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to provide excellent psychiatric care to children and their families.
Postdoctoral clinical child and adolescent psychology fellowship
Our postdoctoral fellowship program provides advanced clinical child and adolescent psychology training at Sacramento County’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (CAPS) Clinic.
Psychiatry consultation liaison fellowship
Our consultation liaison fellowship program is a one-year program that prepares beginning psychiatrists to provide expert psychiatry consultation liaison services to culturally diverse medical and surgical patients in a variety of clinical settings.
Forensic psychiatry fellowship training
The 12-month forensic psychiatry fellowship provides extensive exposure to a variety of criminal and civil forensic psychiatry experiences. Graduating residents will be skilled in working in a variety of forensic settings and in interfacing with attorneys and courts.
Clinician health and well-being fellowship
This fellowship is a six-month program for providers in all specialties and aims to foster the culture of medicine as it relates to physician health, well-being, minimizing burnout, and strengthening resilience.
Other training programs
The department offers a number of other training programs for physicians, residents and medical students and other trainees interested in specialized areas of psychiatry.
Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Doctoral Internship Program
Clinician Health and Well-being Program
Early Identification and Intervention of Pychosis
Early Psychosis Training for Residents and Predoctoral Candidates
The resident experience
I am in the general residency psychiatry training program and have aspirations to pursue a career addressing healthcare disparities among the underserved, minority and immigrant communities from both a clinical and policy lens.
Hammad Khan, M.D., PGY-4, incoming Categorical Psychiatry Chief Resident, 2021-2022 academic year
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Spotlight on teen mental health
Local high school student interviews UC Davis fellows for mental health advocacy project
UC Davis child psychiatry fellow Apurva Bhatt, M.D., and child psychology fellow Christina Aguirre-Kolb, Ph.D., participated in an interview by Hudson Prunier, a senior at Rio Americano High school. Hudson focused on questions about teen mental health as part of a school project aimed at building awareness and advocacy.
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