Training Sites
Our program exposes residents to a diverse patient population through various health systems, including Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, UCLA, Student Counseling Services at CSUN, private hospitals, and community health centers.
Olive View Medical Center
A large county hospital and academic training center, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center offers residents a unique opportunity to train in community psychiatry. Residents rotate at OVMC for several months on each of the following services: emergency psychiatry, inpatient psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, inpatient consultation & liaison psychiatry, HIV clinic, and women’s health. Residents also take call at OVMC and have the opportunity to moonlight once approved.
Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital
The Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital is a 74-bed acute psychiatric hospital and is one of the leading centers in the world for comprehensive psychiatric care, research, and education. Residents spend several months at this private hospital, rotating on the inpatient psychiatric unit during PGY-1 and the child and adolescent unit during PGY-2. There are also elective opportunities for residents during their PGY-3 and PGY-4.
This 10,000-square-foot single-story facility is on the same campus as the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center and provides mental health services and follow-up care for patients and their family members, totaling approximately 9,000 visits per year. The design of the facility is intended to support the Department of Mental Health’s values of hope, wellness, and recovery and is a welcoming environment for the adults who will be treated there. Patients who are self-referred or referred by their providers are typically experiencing acute emotional crises and may also suffer from co-occurring (mental health and substance use) disorders. The goal of the center is to provide support and interventions for individuals to ensure their ability to thrive in their families, schools, and communities. Some of the strengths of this center are women’s health, psychotherapy, and the treatment of psychosis.
California State University, Northridge
PGY-4 residents have the opportunity to provide counseling, therapy, and other mental health services to students at California State University, Northridge. CSUN University Counseling Services (UCS) offers a broad range of outpatient, education, outreach, prevention, and community services to a diverse population of approx. 39,000 students.
San Fernando Mental Health Center
San Fernando Valley Mental Health Center is a large outpatient health center and the site of resident outpatient clinics beginning in PGY-2. Residents provide comprehensive mental health services to local patients of all ages, regardless of ability to pay. The clinic offers specialized mental health services for homeless patients and youth populations. Residents also gain exposure to the management of clozapine and the use of LAIs (long-acting injectable anti-psychotics) in the outpatient setting.
West Valley Mental Health Center is an outpatient ambulatory care mental health clinics that provides our residents with an opportunity to do comprehensive neuropsychiatric evaluation and follow up with geriatric patients in our community. It is part of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Centers.
SFCFC and CFGC are outpatient ambulatory care community mental health clinics that provide care to families with children who have significant emotional problems requiring comprehensive mental health interventions. They serve as the locations for our Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry rotations.
This clinic is also part of the LA County Department of Mental Health and serves as the base for residents who are engaged in our Street Psychiatry and Disaster Psychiatry rotations. This latter rotation was developed and activated in response to the needs of vulnerable and homeless patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Residents who choose the Street Psychiatry elective go out into the field and care for unhoused patients on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. The Disaster Psychiatry elective was developed to provide telepsychiatry to patients in the homeless shelters designated for quarantined patients during the pandemic.
