Psychiatry
The Prime West Consortium St. Francis Medical Center Psychiatry Residency Program, an affiliate of California University of Science and Medicine (CUSM), is committed to the training of highly skilled, competent, and caring psychiatry physicians. Our main goal is to develop talent for practice readiness and to address the projected shortage of internists.
Our program has several hallmarks which include a community hospital atmosphere at SFMC, academic opportunities through our partner CUSM, and the resident Continuity Clinic located 3630 E. Imperial Highway, Lynwood, CA 90262. This is a new program at a hospital that has not had Graduate Medical Education programs in the past and will offer opportunities to residents in helping to shape and mold the future of this program.
Welcome from the Program Director
Welcome to St. Francis Medical Center Psychiatry Residency Program! Our program is a member of the Prime West Consortium and is affiliated with the California University of Science and Medicine (CUSM) medical school. St. Francis Hospital is proud to have served Lynwood and the surrounding area since 1945, and we look forward to continuing our mission of providing excellent care for our community by training the next generation of physicians.
We offer a comprehensive graduate education program in Psychiatry based on a well-rounded inpatient and outpatient rotations during the four years of residency. We provide an excellent program to educate the next generation of competent and compassionate psychiatrist through clinical, education and research experiences. Our clinical sites include St. Francis Medical Center, a tertiary care teaching community hospital, and, a regionally recognized private clinic, Alliance for Wellness.
Our rotation schedule is mainly at St. Francis Medical Center. We have one of the largest and state of the art inpatient psychiatric unit in Southern California, and we treat patients with all major psychiatric disorders. We offer residents the opportunity to care for patients in our behavioral health units working as consultants in the inpatient and outpatient services and rotations in sub-specialty clinics.
Our Program gives residents the appropriate combination of clinical, education and research to let them to succeed as clinical psychiatrists in the twenty-first century.
Sincerely,
Anil Sharma, M.D.
Program Director
Psychiatry Residency Program
Psychiatry
flexibility to participate in areas that are of interest to them. Our residents experience a balance of professional autonomy with progressive levels of supervision.
We offer competitive annual salaries and an education fund to support learning.
Program Mission
The Prime West Consortium St. Francis Medical Center Psychiatry Residency Program aims to provide a high-quality, well-rounded educational experience for resident physicians to be competent hospitalists,internists, and/or candidates for fellowship. The program will aim to address socio-economic disparities, increase access to healthcare, and grow the number of physicians in Lynwood, CA, and the surrounding communities.
The aims are to instill the core value of service and commitment to the under-served medical communities. Through a humanistic working environment and curriculum, the program intends to inspire physicians to promote wellness and enact positive change in existing models of care through clinically sound, responsible, innovative, and compassionate care.
Program Vision
The Prime West Consortium St. Francis Medical Center Psychiatry Residency Program’s vision are as follows:
- Create an environment for scholarly activity and quality improvement with a focus on topics applicable to the community.
- Encourage life-long learning and improvement.
- Increase the number of primary care physicians in the greater Lynwood region.
- Address socio-economic barriers to healthcare in the community.
Program Goals
- To train well-rounded psychiatry physicians providing evidence-based, cost-effective, and high-quality healthcare.
- To instill in psychiatry physicians the importance of diversity and wellness for the mind and body.
- To recruit high-quality residents from diverse backgrounds that are committed to the region.
- To promote lifelong growth as physicians within the healthcare
system. - To support faculty and residents in scholarly activity specifically designed to improve patient care, access, quality, and outcomes.
- To grow and sustain high-quality faculty through faculty development and mentoring.
- To provide an educational curriculum that is innovative, responsive, and flexible to the learning goals of the residents and that will prepare them for the ABIM board exam.
- Prepare residents for exam passage for the ABIM board exam or AOA equivalent.
Diversity Statement
Los Angeles County, specifically Lynwood, is extremely diverse. We aim to capture and reflect the diversity in our residency personnel. Eventually, we hope to establish a diverse recruiting pipeline and retain our residents as faculty. In regard to residency personnel, we hope to recruit from the local community and provide tools and opportunities for advancement within our organization.
The program currently boasts diversity in its faculty and staff that is a reflection of the community. The vision is to maintain our diversity by recruiting residents as mentioned in the prior section and eventually retaining them in our program. With time we hope to build a pipeline that continues to build the diversity in our program and serves the community by inspiring lower income high school students, mentoring underserved undergraduate students, fostering local medical students in primary care and then recruiting and retaining physicians in the community and program.
Program Values
Clinical
- To train residents through an evidence-based curriculum, to become well-rounded psychiatry physicians providing evidence-based, cost-effective, and patient-centered healthcare to an underserved community.
- To continuously improve clinical care through QI projects.
Education
- To actively recruit a richly diverse team of residents.
- To engage residents through bedside learning, multi-disciplinary coordination and learning, didactics, procedure workshops, and opportunities to personalize their training and support their autonomy through electives, inter-professional roles, and committee memberships.
- To grow and sustain faculty through development and mentoring.
Research
- To support faculty, residents, and medical students in community-based and clinical research specifically designed to improve patient care, quality, and outcomes.
- To guide and support residents throughout the research process from inquiry to presentation.
Achievements
- To produce psychiatry residency graduates with distinctive qualities and abilities that enable them to become community leaders, public servants, leaders in their medical fields in research and development, and ultimately instruments to invoke change and improvement in healthcare and society.