Curriculum

Sutter Sacramento Psychiatry’s curriculum is designed to meet the ACGME requirements for psychiatry residency, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s criteria for Board eligibility in general psychiatry, and Sutter Health’s standards for providing outstanding and equitable care to the community. Each site has been selected for its value to the residents’ education and contributions to the health of the community. We are fortunate to be able to provide the vast majority of required rotations within Sutter Health, and additional experiences have been selected to augment the educational experience of our graduates. We are proud to partner with Turning Point Community Programs, the largest provider of mental health services in our region, to provide care to individuals with severe mental illness at Elk Grove CORE (community outreach recovery empowerment) in the residents’ second year.

This experience allows residents to see patients in a full-time outpatient setting over 3 months, taking primary responsibility of their psychiatric care, complementing residents’ rotations on inpatient psychiatry and the partial hospitalization program at Sutter Center for Psychiatry (SCP).

We value the knowledge and skills obtained by first year residents on internal medicine and have thoughtfully and deliberately chosen to have interns work in outpatient internal medicine clinic as well as emergency medicine to provide them with a fuller picture of the medical care of patients and how to work with their colleagues in other specialties. First year residents also work with neurology residents and faculty at Sutter Roseville Medical Center (SRMC), recognized by the Joint Commission as a Stroke Center for Excellence. In their fourth year, residents will work in the neurology outpatient clinic to refresh their neurologic knowledge and skills in anticipation of taking the Psychiatry Board exam upon graduation.

First year and fourth year residents will work together on inpatient psychiatry at SCP and consultation-liaison psychiatry at SRMC while third year residents will work with psychiatry faculty in the newly designed Sutter Medical Group outpatient psychiatry clinic, located across the street from SCP.

Residents will have 7 months of electives, beginning in their intern year, and will be encouraged to design electives based on their interests. Sutter has collaborative relationships with the other residency programs and hospitals in the greater Sacramento area, allowing residents to experience other health systems and educational models during their electives.