Academic Programs
Cultural Psychiatry Training
Training for Medical Students
UC Davis Medical Students receive didactics in cultural psychiatry and social determinants of mental health as part of their third-year clerkship in psychiatry. Mentorship is available for students interested in a career in psychiatry and those who have an interest in cultural psychiatry.
Internships and clerkships for fourth-year medical students
Acting Internship in Inpatient Psychiatry (PSY 420)
Students work with an interdisciplinary team to evaluate patients’ medical and psychiatric appropriateness for involuntary hospitalization. Emphasis is on biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychodynamic aspects appropriate to diagnosis and management of patients with recurrent depression, bipolar disorder, substance disorders, and chronically mentally ill patients.
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Diversity Medical Student Visiting Clerkship in Psychiatry
This clerkship is for visiting fourth-year medical students from Underrepresented in Medicine (URM) backgrounds who are planning careers in psychiatry and have an interest in cultural psychiatry and mental health equity. Students will have opportunities to interact with residents and faculty in the department and within the health system.
I feel enormously privileged and inspired to be a psychiatric educator at UC Davis. We have a chair committed to health equity, diversity and inclusion and a new medical school curriculum replete with opportunities to innovate and achieve new levels of excellence.—Andres Sciolla, M.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Co-IOR Psychiatry Clerkship, Director, Medical Student Education
