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Program profile · California

Psychiatry residency at Kaiser Permanente Oakland

Last verified July 27, 2026 · Checked against the program's official website

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 27, 2026.

Program
Psychiatry Residency Program
Sponsoring institution
Kaiser Permanente Northern California
Location
Oakland, California
Program type
General (adult) psychiatry
Training length
Four years (PGY-1 to PGY-4)
Accreditation
ACGME-accredited. See the ACGME ADS finder for the program's current accreditation status and identifier.

Reported by the program

The program describes the following on its official website, reviewed on July 27, 2026.

Setting
The program describes the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center as the flagship medical center of the Northern California Kaiser system and its primary training site, serving a socioeconomically and culturally diverse East Bay community that it notes includes one of the largest LGBTQI populations in the nation. The program administrator is Jeannie Sohn Kim; the overview page doesn't name an individual program director, so we don't list one here.
Training sites
The program reports additional training at the Richmond and Fremont medical centers, the Oakland Addiction Medicine Recovery Service, the Telecare Heritage Psychiatric Health Facility, a medical-psychiatric inpatient unit at Fremont, and the John George Psychiatric Hospital and its psychiatric emergency service serving Alameda County.
Curriculum
The program highlights outpatient experience with telepsychiatry starting in the first year, inpatient and addiction and child training in the second year, psychotherapy training and building an outpatient panel in the third year, and longitudinal leadership training, plus access to the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research.

shrinkiatry context

Kaiser Oakland is an integrated-system psychiatry residency anchored at Kaiser's Northern California flagship hospital, blending managed-care outpatient training with county public psychiatry through Alameda County's John George hospital. It's in Oakland.

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Sources

  1. Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Psychiatry Residency (Oakland). https://residency-ncal.kaiserpermanente.org/residency/psychiatry/psychiatry-at-oakland/
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

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