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Psychiatry Residents Making a Positive Impact on the Hospital and Community

Earlier this year, Oroville Hospital announced its inaugural Psychiatry Resident Class. Since the program kicked off in July, residents have been hands-on, developing the skills and confidence to navigate the realities of psychiatric care and have made a tangible impact in the community.

The beginning of the program has residents focused on providing quality care to patients with neurological diseases, understanding the critical link between neurology and psychiatry, attend bedside clinical teaching and didactic teaching. With daily supervision, they manage acute psychiatric crises and provide emergency psychiatric care in both clinic and emergency department settings, gaining experience with various urgent psychiatric presentations, including substance abuse problems, psychoses, adolescent mental disorders, psychiatric trauma and crises.

During the residents' first two years, they have multiple rotations in Oroville Hospital’s inpatient psychiatric unit ...