The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is recruiting a full-time PGY-5 for a fellowship in psychosomatic medicine. This ACGME-accredited fellowship will prepare psychiatrists to provide expert psychosomatic medicine services to medical/surgical patients in a wide variety of clinical settings. Inpatient consults will be seen at the 528-bed UC Davis Medical Center, a Level I trauma center and the major tertiary care medical center for inland northern California. In addition, the fellow may be assigned to the Bioethics Consult Service. Outpatient consult experience is available at the Sacramento County Primary Care Clinic and the UC Davis Health System Departments of Internal medicine, Transplant Surgery and Gastric Bypass Surgery. There are extensive opportunities to evaluate patients in various rural clinics via telepsychiatry and regular opportunities to teach psychiatry and neurology residents and medical students. The formal education program consists of seminars, directed readings, and protected time for individual academic development. Requirements include completion of an ACGME-accredited psychiatry residency training program and current California medical license. Click here for fellowship application information.

James A. Bourgeois, M.D.
Director, Psychosomatic Medicine Service
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
UC Davis
2230 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 734-4941
Fax: (916) 734-3384
E-mail: james.bourgeois@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu