shrinkiatry is professional commentary, not medical advice. If you need care, shrinkMD is the network's practice. In crisis? Call or text 988 in the US.
shrinkiatry.Part of The Shrink Network
Program profile · California

Psychiatry residency at UC Davis

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

Verified facts

Checked against official sources on July 27, 2026.

Program
General Psychiatry Residency Program
Sponsoring institution
University of California, Davis
Location
Sacramento, 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.

Program director
Belinda Bandstra, MD, MA. The associate training directors are Poh Choo How, MD, PhD, Karima Holmes, MD, and Benjamin Belai, MD.
Setting
The program describes UC Davis Medical Center standing side by side with the Sacramento County Mental Health Treatment Center, blending a large academic center with community mental-health service, and frames its goal as training clinicians equipped to serve underserved and diverse populations.
Tracks and focus areas
The program reports tracks for research and global mental health and exposure to focus areas including child and adolescent psychiatry, consultation-liaison and integrated behavioral health, cultural psychiatry, early psychosis, and forensic psychiatry, with early correctional-psychiatry experience and close training alongside the combined Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Internal Medicine and Psychiatry residencies.

shrinkiatry context

UC Davis's program pairs a research-capable academic medical center with a county mental-health system, giving residents an unusually strong public-, forensic-, and community-psychiatry base in Northern California's capital region. It's in Sacramento.

See something wrong or out of date?Tell us on the submission and correction form and we'll verify and fix it. A listing is not an endorsement, an award, or a ranking.

Sources

  1. UC Davis Health, General Psychiatry Residency Training Program. https://health.ucdavis.edu/psychiatry/education/residency/adult/
  2. ACGME, Accreditation Data System public finder (for current accreditation status and program id). https://apps.acgme.org/ads/public/

All verified California programs · The Residency Guide standards

Educational and professional commentary only. shrinkiatry explains the profession of psychiatry. It doesn't provide medical advice, isn't a substitute for evaluation or treatment by a licensed clinician, and reading it doesn't create a doctor-patient relationship.