Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Fellowship | UC Davis Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health

Our mission is to train culturally diverse and competent consult-liaison psychiatrists to provide high quality psychiatric assessments and clinically relevant treatment recommendations to patients and providers in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings.

We aim to provide trainees with experiences treating socioeconomically diverse patients in a wide variety of outpatient settings including:

• Collaborative care
• Transplant
• Psycho-oncology
• Neurodegenerative disorders
• Complicated tertiary care hospital patients

Our program trains fellows:

• To be outstanding clinicians using a variety of clinical settings
• To provide high quality care to underserved and diverse patient populations
• To become effective educators

Our program provides and promotes:

• Flexibility for fellows to pursue their particular career interests
• Leadership, scholarship and innovation within consult-liaison psychiatry

During training, the fellow can expect to develop skills in:

• Clinical care
• Administration
• Research
• Writing
• Teaching

Past fellows have found ample opportunity to publish review articles and case reports within the consultation-liaison psychiatry field.  

The fellow enjoys:

• Supervision and mentoring by three designated consultation-liaison psychiatry attending psychiatrists
• Clinical and research collaboration with specialists in outpatient and inpatient medical and surgical consulting services
• Frequent academic interactions with psychiatry faculty members including those who specialize in palliative care, geriatrics, and cultural psychiatry

The consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship education program consists of seminars taught by psychiatry and other UC Davis faculty, directed readings, and protected time for individual academic development. The inpatient consultation-liaison psychiatry service has a weekly clinical case conference and a lunchtime journal club. Additionally, teaching opportunities exist for clinical and didactic training of UC Davis psychiatry residents, UC Davis medical students, and physicians from a variety of UC Davis departments. Past fellows have been an integral part of the UC Davis School of Medicine doctoring curriculum, serving as small-group facilitators for a year-long interviewing and clinical skills course.

Among our 80 faculty, we have:

• Three psychiatrists who are board-certified in consultation-liaison psychiatry
• Three who are board-certified in both family medicine and psychiatry
• Three who are board-certified in both internal medicine and psychiatry

Consultation-liaison psychiatry faculty welcome fellow participation in ongoing research projects involving:

• Quality improvement
• Depression care management
• Stem cell therapy trials for Huntington’s disease

Benefits include:

• A competitive salary
• Twenty days of vacation
• Four days of educational leave
• Full travel reimbursement for the annual Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine conference

Applicants must have completed an ACGME-accredited general adult residency in psychiatry. At the time fellows begin the program, they must have a California medical license.

Required materials for a complete application:

• A current curriculum vitae that must include a full chronological account of time, including non-working months, after receiving your medical degree
• Three letters of recommendation from psychiatrists familiar with your work, including a letter from your general psychiatry residency training program director
• Verification of completed psychiatric training, including documentation of no fewer than three Clinical Skills Verification exams passed.
• Medical school transcript
• USMLE or COMLEX transcript (Passing scores in all Step/COMLEX levels required)
• We participate in the National Residency Matching Program. To register, visit nrmp.org.

There are two options to submit your application:

Option 1: Apply through ERAS

• Visit the ERAS website for more information and submission timelines
• Obtain your ERAS token

Option 2: Apply by email

• Visit the ACLP website for more information on Consultation Liaison Psychiatry fellowships
• Complete and submit the ACLP Common Application form