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Psychiatry Residency Training Program: Resident's Comments About the Program

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"I'm very grateful to San Mateo County for the excellent training I have received here. Looking back over these last four years, I'm reminded of many wonderful teachers, a sense of family and friendship among fellow residents, and a variety of clinical experiences, which were both challenging and enjoyable. This program has given me many opportunities to explore my own interests, while providing the perfect combination of independence and supervision. As a graduating resident, I'm excited by the many opportunities which lay before me, and feel confident in my abilities as a psychiatrist. Deciding to do my residency training in San Mateo County has been one of the best decisions I've ever made." —PGY 4 resident "Every day I fell like I've won a secret lottery.... I get superb biologic and therapy training and truly enjoy my colleagues." —PGY 3 resident "San Mateo County Mental Health Services is a uniquely enjoyable place for psychiatry residency training. The County hospital has the diversity of patients one would see anywhere but in a clean modern facility. The program fosters a balance between work and social life and a sense of cooperation and caring." —PGY 2 resident "What sets the San Mateo program apart? Our close group of residents, supervisors and faculty members fosters a positive learning environment. Our intimate size enables a constant flexibility in our curriculum and avoids the coldness of many large residency programs. Furthermore, our well-rounded schedule of didactic lectures covers the range of biopsychosocial and psychodynamic topics, preparing us for psychiatry in today's world. We enjoy our day while we learn - for when a residency program is there for you, as opposed to you just being there for the program, you've found the optimal learning environment." —PGY 1 resident "Coming to the San Mateo Psychiatry Residency has been the best decision I have ever made. We have personalized training and an excellent education. I love the family atmoshphere throughout the hospital and residency. I couldn't be happier." —PGY 1 resident "I had high hopes of the program before I matched and I have not been dissapointed at all. The teaching is top notch, the facility is well run, and my fellow residents are genuinely great people." —PGY 1 resident "After finishing this program, I found that I could handle just about any clinical situation in psychiatry." —recent graduate "Now, I am even more grateful and impressed with the caliber of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic education that I received from the San Mateo Residency. Not all programs offer as much education and practice in the diversity of psychotherapeutic modalities as San Mateo does. Nor do programs offer the wealth of experience of treating the seriously mentally ill. I came to (my child and adolescent fellowship) with an advantage on both these fronts and have found it instrumental in my work with children in the hospital and clinics"  —recent graduate, after her first year of child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at a major-research, medical center Our campus is the County of San Mateo. We have three quarters of a million people and their mental health is our mission." —Training Director