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What We Do

Clinical Rotations, Primary Psychiatric Training Sites, Community Engagement, Global Health Experiences, and Teaching Experiences

Unique Curriculum Features

Early outpatient experience (psychiatry, medicine, neurology)
Early psychotherapy training with both attending and peer feedback.
Scholarly concentration (protected time for independent academic interests including research, community and global work, and educational projects)
Multiple clinical sites with varied health care delivery systems

PGY1 Clinical Rotations

PGY2 Clinical Rotations

PGY3 Clinical Rotations

PGY4 Clinical Rotations

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Call Schedule

PGY1

On average, 1-2 weekend days and 3-4 evenings per month (except on inpatient medicine and neurology).

PGY2

On average, no evening call and about 1 weekend call per month

PGY3

On average, no weekend call but one support shift per month

PGY4

No Call

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Stanford Outpatient Clinics

Opportunity to rotate through various outpatient clinics in 6 month blocks including depression, bipolar, dual diagnosis, women’s wellness, OCD, ECT/TMS, psychosomatic, geriatric, neuropsychiatry clinics.
General continuity clinic/precision psychiatry research collaboration
CBT and psychodynamic psychotherapy training
Virtual Reality, Couples Therapy, and TLDP
LGBTQ clinic
Evaluation Clinic in PGY1

Palo Alto VA

Locked inpatient psychiatry units; 60 beds
Patient population: Severe mental illness, dual diagnosis. Primarily male patients of all socioeconomic backgrounds from a large catchment area
Highlights: Interdisciplinary rounds, journal club, health provider wellness discussions
Medicine rotations (inpatient, outpatient, consults)

Stanford Hospital

Locked (15 beds) and unlocked (14 beds) inpatient units; Geriatric and Consult Liaison services
High acuity, psychotic and severe mood disorders on locked unit; Lower acuity, eating disorders, personality disorders, pain disorders on unlocked unit
All SES with mix of insurance coverage (commercial, Medicare, Medical, and uninsured)
Highlights: Interdisciplinary rounds, significant legal/forensic experience (in hospital and superior court hearings), ECT treatment
Neurology rotations (inpatient, outpatient)
EM and EM Psych rotations

Menlo Park VA

Opportunity to rotate through various outpatient clinics in 6 month blocks including telepsychiatry, serious mental illness clinics, addiction treatment services, trauma-focused psychiatry including evidence-based psychotherapy for combat and violence-related conditions, and residential programs for gender-based sexual trauma and PTSD
Research/Educational focus on Implementation Science and Healthcare System Innovation

Community Organizations that Host Resident Core Rotations

Santa Cruz Behavioral Health Division: Crisis stabilization Program and Integrated Behavioral Health for county and homeless populations.
Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI) Center for Survivors of Torture: Psychiatric evaluation and treatment for political asylum cases and for a primarily immigrant, county population.
Momentum for Mental Health: Largest nonprofit provider for mental health in Santa Clara County; Residents may rotate at this site in San Jose which features a transitional age youth population.
La Clinica de La Raza: One of the largest FQHCs in the bay area, with over 50 years serving the communities of the East Bay. Residents rotate at Casa del Sol, a public sector specialty mental health clinic that serves the primarily spanish-speaking immigrant population in Fruitvale, Oakland
Stanford-Roots Collaborative Care Clinic: Integrated Behavioral Health Clinic operated by Stanford faculty and residents in Oakland, CA. Population is primarily Black and Latino, with an emphasis on the formerly incarcerated.
Oakland Community Support: A community psychiatry clinic within the Alameda County system that offers psychiatric services and case management in East Oakland.

Parent Playbook, interactive theater produced by Stanford’s CHIPAO (Communication Health Interactive for Parents and Others)

Resident-Driven Community-based Initiatives/Initiatives that Residents are involved with

Local Schools

Working with the Palo Alto Unified School District and local communities for prevention of teen suicide
Communication Health Interactive for Parents and Others (CHIPAO): Workshops and Interactive vignettes focused on communication and mental health awareness in Asian American Families
Suicide Prevention Policy - East Side Union High School District
East Palo Alto Charter School (EPACS) and East Palo Alto Academy
Other school-based mental health centers

Stanford University

CAPS: Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS)
Weiland: Promote mental health and wellness across gender identity spectrum
Women in Science and Engineering Groups (WISE)
Med Student Support/Reflection Groups
Student Athlete Mental Health- Started a Student-Athlete Clinic, psychotherapy and outreach with athletes

Psychiatric Department/Stanford Hospital

Department-wide Community Psychiatry Workgroup
Resident Community Psychiatry Interest Group: Meetings with speakers in community psychiatry
Partnering with community partners to roll out expanded integrated primary care models
Working with Stanford's hospital systems on models for telepsychiatry implementation
Pacific Adolescent Leadership Council (PALC): Pediatric patients with chronic medical illness
Resident Safety Council: Interdepartmental quality improvement council

County and State

Leading the development of a statewide network of early psychosis/prodrome programs, opening up a number of clinical as well as potential policy opportunities
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County partnerships in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco counties
Advocacy for mental health with the Northern California Psychiatric Society (NCPS)

Other Community Partners

Maristan Clinic
Asian Health Services
North East Medical Services
Ravenswood Family Health Center
United Indian Health Services
Pacific Clinics
Immigrant Community Support Workgroup
Assisting with the formation of a county LGBT clinic
Stanford Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Lab: Research on psychiatric impact of trauma on survivors of human rights abuses with aims of informing the judicial process/system

National Organizations

Annual NAMI walk in Golden Gate park
APA Fellowships
Psychiatry Innovation Lab

Academically oriented community opportunities

Public and Community Track
Community Psychiatry Pathway
Designing tailored opportunities during scholarly concentration time

For more information on community involvement in the department, please see
http://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/community.html

Through the Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH) at Stanford and funding opportunities within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, residents can apply for funding to go abroad. Examples of resident projects are outlined in the image above.

Academically-oriented international opportunities

Global Health Pathway: Residents focus on global health by applying as a PGY2 and are eligible for overseas experience
Scholarly Concentration time: Allows residents to design tailored, global opportunities during their PGY2 and PGY4 years
Residents have designed international rotations in the following areas:
- Jujuy, Argentina
- Chennai, India
- Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala
- Petra, Jordan
- Kathmandu, Nepal (post-earthquake)
- Puerto Rico

Additional Global Health Opportunities at Stanford

Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health Classes

2-week intensive global health course: (Med 233) Residents are encouraged to attend course through CIGH prior to going abroad
Practical Approaches to Global Health Research (HRP237)

Other global health courses at Stanford

Stanford Global Health Club

The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies: FSI is a university-wide research and education institution at Stanford devoted to understanding the problems, policies, and processes that cross international borders and affect lives around the world .

Residents have opportunities to interact with and teach medical students on their rotations through inpatient and outpatient psychiatry.

Resident-Driven Teaching Initiatives

CHIPAO
WISE (Women in Science and Engineering): Residents have the opportunity to lead weekly support
groups (group therapy)
Medical Student Reflection Groups
Mind over Media: Discussion series 1x/month with residents and faculty over lunch that deals with controversial topics in the media. Special guests from other departments on campus (Ex. Law, Philosophy, Psychology), and even the authors of the books/articles themselves frequently are present. Examples include:
- Race & Photography: How racism fundamentally and physically shaped the visual media we consume
- Media portrayals of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Mental Health and Climate Change
- Guns and Mental Illness
- Social Media and Psychiatry
- 13 reasons why and the portrayal of suicide in the media
- Logic’s (1-800-273-8255)
- Group therapy training as part of medical student support groups
- LGBTQ curriculum
Clinical Translational Neuroscience Curriculum
Medical Student Courses
- MS1 course on communication skills with difficult patients
- MS1 course on stigma using patient panel and podcast discussion of:
  This American Life
- MS2 Psychosomatic Medicine Cases class
- Shelf Exam prep for clerkship students

Resident Nina Vasan launched the American Psychiatric Association's Psychiatry Innovation Lab, a mental health incubator for startup venture ideas.

Psychiatry Interest Group: Residents serve on panels, attend events, and act as liaisons helping to facilitate course planning for elective lunchtime seminar (Psyched: Psychiatry Careers and Mental Health Perspectives for Medicine (PSYC 249SI)

Other Opportunities for Residents to Teach and Learn about Education

School of Medicine Resident Development in Teaching

Clinical Teaching Seminar Series- Honors Certificate Program
LEAD: Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity

Residents:

PGY4 co-leading PGY2 IPC small group supervision
PGY4 resident serves as supervisor to PGY 1s in teaching rotation through Evaluation Clinic
Co-teach didactic courses for residents
PGY4 pre-attending option on inpatient wards with junior residents and med students
Tandem call supervision
Chief resident
Inpatient didactics at Stanford and the VA
Co-teach Medical Student Reflection Group Trainings

Medical Students:

Teach lectures and run small groups with Dr. Yasmin Owusu for the Psychiatry Preclinical Clerkship curriculum
Serve as mentors

Undergraduates:

Serve as mentors
Serve as Teaching Assistants in:
Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness (ANTHRO/PSYC 286)
The Literature of Psychosis (PSYC 282)
Serve as project mentors in:
Leadership and Innovation in Mental Health (PSYC 240)

Diversity-Inclusive Clinical Experiences

During core rotations, residents care for diverse patient populations in a broad array of settings. Below are recent demographics of the four counties where our clinical sites are located:

	%White	%Black	%Latinx/ Hispanic	%Native	%Asian	%2 or more races	%Immigrant	%Poverty
Santa Clara	52	3	25	2	39	4	39	6
San Mateo	59	3	24	2	31	5	35	5
Alameda	49	11	22	2	32	5	33	9
Santa Cruz	87	2	34	2	5	4	18	11

Source: US Census Bureau

However, many of our patients also come from other California counties in the Central Valley or elsewhere.

Our program’s relationship with multiple different systems of care also allows us to receive broad experience with different insurance systems, from private insurance to public sector care in various counties (in California the behavioral health system is administered by county) to serving patients without insurance, as well as to systems like Kaiser or the VA.

For trainees with a specific interest in diversity in mental health, rotations that may worth exploring include:

Electives in the Stanford Clinics

centerspace clinic (centerspace provides culturally-contextualized, trauma-informed care for people for whom the experience of carrying marginalized, multiple and/or intersecting identities is an important part of their mental health and well-being. We work with individuals to achieve meaningful recovery in complex contexts including cross-cultural dynamics, integrating spirituality and faith, spiritual and/or racial trauma, immigration and displacement.)
SMHART clinic - Asian mental health
THRIVE Clinic - LGBTQ+ mental health
LGBTQ+ Health Program
La Clínica Latina
DBT group for LGBTQ+ identified patients

Core Rotations and Electives in the Community

Center for Survivors of Torture (through Asian Americans for Community Involvement): clinic providing specialized mental health, medical, social, and legal services to people with refugee status
La Clinica de la Raza, Casa del Sol (specialty mental health care in Oakland)
Roots Community Health Center
Asian Health Center
Stanford Vaden University Health Services rotation