About the Program

Our four-year, ACGME-accredited Psychiatry Residency Program offers comprehensive education in the diagnosis, treatment, and understanding of mental illness across the lifespan. Residents train in a wide variety of inpatient, outpatient, emergency, consult-liaison, community, and integrated care settings, gaining the skills necessary for thoughtful, evidence-based psychiatric practice.

Early training includes required rotations in internal medicine, neurology, and emergency medicine, providing a strong medical and neurologic foundation essential to the practice of psychiatry. The internal medicine rotation incorporates both inpatient and outpatient experiences, reinforcing continuity of care and the management of complex medical comorbidities commonly encountered in psychiatric populations. Working in the emergency department affords residents the opportunity to see patients presenting in an acute-care setting who may be experiencing medical as well as psychiatric emergencies. This complements the consultation-liaison psychiatry rotation where residents will manage patients who need psychiatric medication while in the emergency department.

Program Highlights

• Broad clinical exposure across community and academic sites
• Strong psychotherapy training
• Robust didactic curriculum with protected education time
• Diverse faculty dedicated to teaching, mentorship, and wellness
• Focus on cultural humility, health equity, and trauma-informed care
• Opportunities for research, scholarly activity, and advocacy

Sutter Center for Psychiatry

The Sutter Center for Psychiatry (SCP) is a key training site for the Psychiatry Residency Program and serves as a regional hub for specialized inpatient psychiatric care. Located in Sacramento, SCP is where the bulk of residents’ inpatient psychiatry and interventional psychiatry training takes place, as well as offering partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient experiences with children and adults, providing exposure to the assessment and treatment of patients with acute and severe psychiatric illnesses.

Training at SCP emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, evidence-based care, and compassionate treatment in a structured inpatient environment. Residents develop core competencies in diagnostic formulation, psychopharmacologic management, crisis intervention, and systems-based care while working closely with psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nursing staff, and allied mental health professionals.

The Sutter Center for Psychiatry plays a central role in preparing residents for independent practice in inpatient settings, while reinforcing the program’s commitment to patient safety, recovery-oriented treatment, trauma-informed care, and clinical excellence.

Sutter Roseville Medical Center

Situated in Northern California, Sutter Roseville Medical Center (SRMC) is an award-winning community hospital committed to innovation and patient-centered care. Located in one of the fastest-growing regions of California, SRMC serves a diverse and well-rounded patient population, offering residents broad exposure to a wide range of psychiatric and medical conditions in a supportive learning environment.

The Psychiatry Residency Program at Sutter Roseville fosters collaborative, interdisciplinary training and equips residents to deliver high-quality care across medical and psychiatric settings. Residents rotate through internal medicine (combined inpatient and outpatient), neurology, and emergency medicine at SRMC, gaining essential experience at the intersection of medicine and psychiatry.

In addition, residents participate in an addiction medicine rotation based at SRMC, delivered as a consultative service to the medical center and led by the Emergency Medicine department. This experience provides exposure to scientifically driven approaches to substance use disorders, withdrawal management, and acute psychiatric-medical consultation within a busy hospital setting.

Consistently ranked among California’s top hospitals, Sutter Roseville’s 418-bed facility serves 10 counties across the greater Sacramento region. The center includes a Joint Commission–accredited Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center, Level II Trauma Center, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and the Sutter Rehabilitation Institute. A 98,000-square-foot expansion completed in 2020 further supports the growing healthcare needs of Roseville and surrounding communities.

Sutter Medical Center Sacramento

Sutter Medical Center Sacramento is an award-winning, quaternary care hospital recognized for its commitment to innovation, academic excellence, and patient-centered care. Located in California’s capital city, our institution serves a broad and rapidly growing population, offering trainees exposure to a wide spectrum of psychiatric conditions across the continuum of care.

Consistently recognized for clinical excellence, Sutter Medical Center Sacramento serves as a major referral center for the greater Sacramento region, providing highly specialized services within a large, integrated healthcare system.  Residents also benefit from multidisciplinary collaboration and exposure to diverse care settings, preparing them to meet the complex behavioral health needs of the communities they serve.

The Sutter Health System

Our training sites are part of the acclaimed Sutter Health integrated care network. Nearly three million patients receive coordinated care across affiliated facilities throughout the Bay Area and Sacramento Valley. With decades of commitment to graduate medical education and institutional accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), Sutter Health provides a strong foundation for developing new residency programs across Northern California. Current residency offerings within the system: Anesthesiology, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Transitional Year, Emergency Medicine, and Surgery.