Program Rotation

Resident Year 1:

• Primary Care – Perform initial evaluations and ongoing care of patients admitted to the general internal medicine service.
• Neurology – Consult patients with neurological disorders and learn about acute and chronic neurological disorders in the general hospitalized population. 
• Inpatient Psychiatry – Conduct a comprehensive mental status examination and discuss significant treatment strategies for major psychiatric disorders.
• Emergency Psychiatry – Acquire the skill to perform emergency psychiatric evaluations and how to use acute psychopharmacologic intervention in psychiatric emergencies.
• Emergency Medicine –Acquire the knowledge to collect essential information from medical interviews, physical exams, medical records, diagnostic procedures, and sub-special information. 

Resident Year 2:

• Inpatient Psychiatry – Conduct a comprehensive mental status examination and discuss significant treatment strategies for major psychiatric disorders.
• Emergency Psychiatry – Acquire the skill to perform emergency psychiatric evaluations and how to use acute psychopharmacologic intervention in psychiatric emergencies.
• Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry –Learn how to construct consultation services for patients on various medical and surgical services.
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – Treat common psychiatric illnesses in children and adolescents and identify severe conditions that may require specialty care.
• Addiction Medicine –Evaluate and manage patients with substance abuse and dependence disorders, including those with co-occurring psychiatric disorders.
• Forensic Psychiatry –Evaluate patients for their risk of self-harm to others, their ability to make decisions about their care and treatments, their competency, disability, and civil commitment.  
• Geriatric Psychiatry –Evaluate, diagnose, and manage psychiatric illness and geriatric patients with dementia, neuropsychiatric, and psychiatric symptoms.

Resident Year 3:

• Outpatient and Community Clinic –Acquire and practice skills in diagnosing, treating, and managing psychiatric illness across the continuum of care. 

Resident Year 4: 

• Administrative Psychiatry –Supervise an interdisciplinary treatment team at Oroville Hospital under faculty supervision, gaining extensive experience in utilization review, quality assurance, and performance improvement.