The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences offers a one-year Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program for two fellows per year, with each fellow spending six months based at UCSF and six months based at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC). This fellowship represents an exciting opportunity to gain expertise in inpatient and outpatient consultation-liaison (C-L) work, acquire advanced teaching and leadership skills, and develop research interests in an academic setting.
The UCSF Medical Center is a 600-bed tertiary and quaternary referral center that also serves as a community hospital. UCSF is distinguished by its integration of medical research and patient care, as well as by its opportunities for clinical training. SFVAMC is a 104-bed acute care center, with a 120-bed Community Living Center for rehabilitation and extended care, located at the picturesque Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco Bay. The facility provides primary, secondary, and tertiary care for veterans throughout Northern California and is one of the main UCSF training sites.
Requirements
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.
How to apply
We accept applications through the Electronic Residency Application System (ERAS). Please note that we no longer accept applications through the ACLP Common Application. Our program starts accepting applications on July 1, and the deadline to submit an application is December 1. We accept applications from candidates eligible for J1 and H1B visas.
Curriculum
Fellows perform consultation and liaison activities in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The schedule is approximately 50% inpatient and 50% outpatient at SFVAMC, and 80% inpatient and 20% outpatient at UCSF. Fellows have the opportunity to work alongside psychiatry and neurology residents, geriatric and addiction psychiatry fellows, nurse practitioners, and social workers to provide formal consultation, triage, liaison services, as well as psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatment. Fellows have the option to participate in a wide array of outpatient elective experiences, including psycho-oncology, women's mental health, addiction, and transplant psychiatry.
Fellows teach medical students, psychiatry residents, and psychiatric nurse practitioner residents in the consultation-liaison setting, with the goal of enhancing further development of leadership and administrative skills. Throughout the year, fellows are able to take advantage of both informal and formal opportunities for learning, including clinical case conferences, core didactics in consultation-liaison psychiatry, and quality improvement work. Fellows may also engage in elective scholarly activity.
UCSF is the top-funded academic institution by the National Institutes of Health, and SFVAMC runs the largest funded research program in the Veterans Health Administration system.
Salary, policies, and benefits
Salary is set annually by UCSF. The fellow salary (effective July 1, 2026) is $109,737 per year.
Potential applicants may review the UCSF Graduate Medical Education website for policies, regulations, benefits, and services; the Housestaff Information Booklet is particularly useful.
Contacts
Erik Levinsohn, MD
Director, UCSF Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program
Alejandra Infante
Coordinator, Clinical Training Programs
UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Core faculty members
- Ellen Bradley, MD
- Bo Hu, MD, MS
- Kurtis Kaminishi, MD, MBA
- Larry Kaplan, DO
- Stephen Leung, MD
- Christopher Manschreck, MD
- Bobby Singh, MD
- Adnan Syed, MD, MSc
