Our TeamFamily Medicine/Psychiatry Combined Training Program
We are delighted to offer this special training experience to a unique group of
applicants. Please submit an ERAS application and apply to the "UC Davis FP/Psych
track". You will need to have interviews in both departments in order to be
considered for a position. Your interview date should be selected via our
Network website. The family medicine itinerary is available on our Web site link
under "Interview Information". Psychiatry will contact you with information
regarding that portion of the interview.
Overview
A combined training opportunity in family medicine and psychiatry was started at
UC Davis in June of 1995. The goal of the program is to provide a unique training
experience to residents who are interested in dual board certification. The
curriculum of the five year program follows the guidelines published jointly by
the American Board of Family Practice and the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology. These are as follows:
Objectives
The objective of combined training in family practice and psychiatry is to
produce physicians with broad-based training in both specialties and specific
expertise in such areas as geriatrics/geriatric psychiatry, substance and alcohol
abuse, diagnosis and treatment of depression, delirium, eating disorders, panic
disorders and neurotic and somatizing behavior. Graduates of combined training
may be expected to develop practices which take advantage of the joint-training
experience, serve as consultants in liaison psychiatry or family practice, or be
actively involved in research or administration in family practice and psychiatry.
General requirements
The combined program is a five-year experience coordinated jointly by the
Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Psychiatry. Both are fully
accredited residency programs at UC Davis. The combined program has been
endorsed by the institutional Graduate Medical Education Committee and the
Boards of Family Practice, Psychiatry and Neurology. Tom Balsbaugh, M.D., Professor
of family and community medicine and Mark Servis, M.D., Professor of psychiatry
function as co-directors. The curriculum of the combined program takes advantage
in the overlap in training between the two specialities in order to condense the
training to 60 months.
Curriculum
Thirty months of training are specific to the requirements in family medicine
and thirty months of training are specific to the requirements in psychiatry.
Our goal is to maximize the integration between the two programs during the
five years.
PGY1
| Rotation | Location | Duration | Days in Family Practice Clinic |
| Psychiatry In Patient | Sacramento County Mental Health Treatment Center and Sacramento County Jail Psychiatry Service | 12 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Psychiatry Consult with ECT-2weeks | UC Davis | 8 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Chemical Dependency | Bi Valley and Kaiser | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Medicine Intensive Care Unit | UC Davis | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Trauma Surgery | UC Davis | 4 weeks | None |
| Cardiac Care Unit | UC Davis | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Internal Medicine | UC Davis or Mather | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Fam Med Ward | UC Davis | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Vacation (in 2 week blocks) | 4 weeks | None | |
| Family Practice Educational Block Time (in 2 week blocks) | 4 weeks | ½ day in 2 weeks |
PGY2
| Rotation | Location | Duration | Days in Family Practice Clinic |
| ENT | UC Davis | 2 weeks | 2 days a week |
| Peds Wards | UC Davis | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Peds ER with Urgent Care | UC Davis | 4 weeks | 2 days a week |
| Emergency Medicine | UC Davis | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Obstetrics | UC Davis | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Gynecology Clinic | UC Davis | 2 weeks | 2 days a week |
| Newborn Nurs. Wards | UC Davis | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Psychiatry-Crisis unit | Sacramento County Mental Health Treatment Center | 4-8 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Psychiatry Inpatient | Sacramento County Mental Health Treatment Center | 16-20 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Vacation (in 2 week blocks) | 4 weeks | None |
PGY3
| Rotation | Location | Duration | Days in Family Practice Clinic |
| Internal Medicine | VA Hospital | 8 weeks | ½ day a week |
| FP/Psych | varies | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Mother Infant Child | UC Davis | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Obstetrics | UC Davis | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Family Practice Night Float | UC Davis | 2 weeks | None |
| Family Practice Clinic | UC Davis | 2 weeks | 5 days a week |
| Psychiatry Outpatient | UC Davis | 24 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Vacation (in 2 week blocks) | UC Davis | 4 weeks | None |
PGY4
| Rotation | Location | Duration | Days in Family Practice Clinic |
| Psychiatry Outpatient | UC Davis | 24 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Clinic Resident | UC Davis | 4 weeks | 5 days a week |
| Internal Medicine | VA Hospital | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Family Medicine Wards | UC Davis | 4 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Family Practice Night float | UC Davis | 2 weeks | None |
| Practice Management | UC Davis | 2 weeks | 5 days a week |
| Vacation (in 2 week blocks) | 4 weeks | None | |
| Pediatrics Clinic | UC Davis | 4 weeks | 2 days a week |
| Orthopedics | S. Kaiser | 4 weeks | 1 day a week |
PGY5
| Rotation | Location | Duration | Days in Family Practice Clinic |
| Dermatology | UC Davis | 4 weeks | 2 ½ days a week |
| Family Practice Clinic | UC Davis | 2 weeks | 5 days a week |
| Women’s Health | UC Davis | 2 weeks | 2 days a week |
| Neurology | UC Davis | 8 weeks | ½ day a week |
| Sports Medicine | UC Davis | 2 weeks | 2 days a week |
| Ophthalmology | Med Clinic | 2 weeks | 2 ½ days a week |
| Practice Management | UC Davis | 2 weeks | 5 days a week |
| Urology | Med Clinic | 2 weeks | 1 ½ days a week |
| Surgery | Med Clinic | 4 weeks | 2 ½ days a week |
| Integrated Medicine-Psych Clinic | UC Davis | 12 weeks | ½ day a week |
| FP/Psych | varies | 4 weeks | 1 day a week |
| Reading Elective | 4 weeks | Varies | |
| Vacation | 4 weeks | None |